Policy Review articles from December 2001

Policy Review archives from December 2001

Hegemony Of the Heart: American cultural power and its enemies.
December 1, 2001... THE POWER OF THE United States looks very different in the aftermath of September 11. Since the attacks, the earth's major nations -- ranging from the NATO countries to Russia to China to Japan -- and so many others have put aside their...

The Lessons of Florida 2000.
December 1, 2001... IT HAS NOW BEEN a year since the U.S. Supreme Court cut off the manual recount in the Bush-Gore election. In the heat of the battle, it seemed few could dissociate who they thought should win from how they thought the disputed issues could be...

Tokyo Confronts Terror.
December 1, 2001... IN THE AFTERMATH of the September 11 terror attacks on the United States, observers of Japanese politics were astonished to see the decisiveness with which Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi acted to lend Japanese support to the U.S. war on...

Medicine's Race Problem.
December 1, 2001... ON JUNE 26, 2000, the White House announced to the world that the human genome had been sequenced (with the final, polished version due perhaps by 2002). Though the precise functions of all our genes have yet to be deciphered -- Nobel laureate...

When Politics Is A Laughing Matter.
December 1, 2001... WHEN IT IS NOT at war, democracy is a comical political system. To many of history's greatest minds, the very idea of allowing the rabble to choose its leaders, who then pander to its wishes, was inherently ridiculous. Compared to the simple...

The Western Way Of War. (Books).(Carnage and Culture: Landmark Battles in the Rise of Western Power)
December 1, 2001... VICTOR DAVIS HANSON. Carnage and Culture: Landmark Battles in the Rise of Western Power. DOUBLEDAY. 492 PAGES. $25.00 IT IS A QUESTION that goes to the buried strata of the human psyche: Whether war is a more natural condition than peace...

Enviro-Skepticism. (Books).(The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World)
December 1, 2001... BJORN LQMBORG. The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World. CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS. 352 PAGES. $27.95 IN FEBRUARY 1997 Bjorn Lomborg, a young Danish statistics professor and self-described "old left-wing...

Lord Of the Commons. (Books).(Diaries, Diaries: Into Politics)
December 1, 2001... ALAN CLARK. Diaries. PHOENIX GIANTS. 42.0 PAGES. [pounds sterling]I2.99 ALAN CLARK. Diaries: Into Politics. WEIDENFELD & NICHOLSON. 389 PAGES. [pounds sterling]20 As REGULAR readers of the British tabloids already know, British...

Letters.
December 1, 2001... Precautioned To Death SIR, -- Henry Miller and Gregory Conko have put their finger on one of the most pernicious doctrines to make its way into the public arena in some time ("The Perils of Precaution," June/July 2001). From food made...