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Policy Review articles from December 2008
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 2008
The 2008 Democratic shift.
December 1, 2008... AFTER THE 2004 presidential election, Republicans appeared to be in good shape. They had won the presidency, had a 30-seat margin in the House of Representatives and 55 U.S. Senators. Four years later, the situation is very different....
"Torture" in the dock.
December 1, 2008... --SCENE I: Frankfurt, Germany, I October 2002, early morning
IN THE FRANKFURT police headquarters, the atmosphere is tense. Deputy Police Chief Wolfgang Daschner is losing patience. On the previous day, his officers arrested one Magnus...
The European left and ours.
December 1, 2008... THE ELECTION OF Barack Obama as president of the United States marks a dramatic victory for the progressive left in America and a resounding repudiation of George. W. Bush's presidency and the Republican-controlled Congress with which he...
eWMDs.
December 1, 2008... THE INTERNET HAS enabled the bountiful benefits of eCommerce, and the incorporation of eCommerce into our economies has, in turn, created a dependence on the Internet, similar to our dependence on water, electric, and telephone utilities....
Trafficking and human dignity.
December 1, 2008... HUMAN TRAFFICKING IS the slavery of our time. Exactly 200 years ago, Britain and the United States formally outlawed the transatlantic slave trade. A few decades later the practice of slavery was expunged from North American (with a heavy dose...
Fixing fragile states.
December 1, 2008... FRAGILE STATES HAVE marched from the fringe to the very center of U.S. security concerns. Whereas once defense analysts worried only about competing powers such as the Soviet Union and China, now even the weakest of countries is considered a...
Thinking About Terror And Law.
December 1, 2008... PHILIP BOBBITT. Terror and Consent: The Wars for the Twenty-First Century. KNOPF. 688 PAGES. $35.00
IT WOULD BE hard to think of a more barbaric enemy than the Islamists: fanatics flying into office buildings, blowing themselves up in...
Progressive Dreams.
December 1, 2008... PORTER SHREVE. When the White House Was Ours. MARINER. 288 PAGES. $I2.95
PORTER SHREVE'S When the White House Was Ours is perfect in its mediocrity: an exemplary formal specimen of the didactic social; novel, and a work of fiction...
Incentives Aren't Everything.
December 1, 2008... JOSEPH V. KENNEDY, Ending Poverty. ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD. 288 PAGES. $39.95
RECALL THE GOP'S "Contract with America," issued several months before the 1994 midterm elections: It delineated specific legislative actions congressional...