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Policy Review articles from December 2003
A bimonthly journal of the Hoover Institution that promotes inquiry into the American condition, American and other government and political and economic systems, and the role of the United States in the world. For the academic audience.
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Policy Review archives from December 2003
Sovereignty and democracy.
December 1, 2003... A "EUROPEAN CONVENTION" chaired by former French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing recently finished drafting a new constitution for the European Union, but the parallels with the Philadelphia Convention of 1787 that this inevitably conjures...
Keeping the information edge.
December 1, 2003... Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
--T. S. Eliot
MULTIFACETED DISCUSSIONS about "America's information edge" transpired throughout the 1990s. In a significant article by that name in Foreign Affairs (March-April 1996),...
European Union, properly construed.
December 1, 2003... Transatlantic Relations are experiencing an uneasy convalescence after one of their worst upheavals since World War II. But fundamental differences between Europe and the United States over the conduct of international affairs have not gone...
Down on the biopharm.
December 1, 2003... TRY AS WE MIGHT, we cannot seem to control a highly infectious bug called Norwalk virus that annually causes millions of cases of gastric distress in North America alone. Cruise ships and nursing homes endlessly scrub and sanitize and...
Representation without taxation: the colonial roots of American taxation, 1700-1754.
December 1, 2003... IN A PREVIOUS issue of Policy Review (August & September 2002), I published an article entitled "The Colonial Roots of American Taxation, 1607-1700." In it, I described the mixed bag of public finance schemes in the American colonies first...
Evil and the postmodernist.(Book Review)
December 1, 2003... IGAL HALFIN. Terror in My Soul: Communist Autobiographies on Trial. HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS. 352 PAGES. $45.00
WHERE DID Auschwitz come from? And Pol Pot? And Rwanda? Mass death, orchestrated death, demands explanation; explanation offers...
Another way to burn a book.(Book Review)
December 1, 2003... DIANE RAVITCH. The Language Police: How Pressure Groups Restrict Wbat Students Learn. KNOPF. 272. PAGES. $24.00
IN THE EARLY 1970S a publishing house approached author Ray Bradbury asking to reprint his short story, "A Fog Horn," for a...
Finding a founder.(Book Review)
December 1, 2003... WILLIAM HOWARD ADAMS. Gouverneur Morris: An Independent Life. YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS. 296 PAGES. $30.00
GOUVERNEUR MORRIS is one of the unsung heroes of the American Revolution, although he was neither wholly general, orator, nor political...