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Policy Review articles from February 2001
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 February 2001
Pornography, Main Street To Wall Street.
February 1, 2001... PORNOGRAPHY IS NOT a subject one would expect to come up at a baby shower. But there I was when two Manhattan women of my acquaintance began discussing the web surfing habits of their husbands. It seems they had discovered the "history" folder...
The Vice Presidency Grows Up.
February 1, 2001... "VICE PRESIDENT CHENEY to Wield Unusual Power," said the headline on the jump page of a Washington Post story published late last year. The article speculated that George W. Bush's vice president would function as the government's CEO, with the...
Why "Globalization" Didn't Rescue Russia.
February 1, 2001... RUSSIA HAS NOT LIVED up to its hype. After nine years of independence and tens of billions of dollars in international assistance -- not to mention voluminous foreign advice -- Russia is far from having met the expectations of a bright future...
Space Weapons: Refuting the Critics.
February 1, 2001... CLASHES OVER THE MILITARY use of space, usually a result of proposals to fund politically controversial weapons programs, have agitated and unsettled the country at various times throughout the space age. But though the world has changed, the...
The Monochrome Society.
February 1, 2001... VARIOUS DEMOGRAPHERS and other social scientists have been predicting for years that the end of the white majority in the United States is near, and that there will be a majority of minorities. CNN broadcast a special program on the forthcoming...
Truth Without Justice?(Review)
February 1, 2001... ROBERT I. ROTBERG & DENNIS THOMPSON, EDITORS. Truth v. Justice: The Morality of Truth Commissions. PRINCETON UNIVERSTIY PRESS. 296 PAGES. $55.00 cloth, $185 paper
The WAVE of democracy sweeping across the globe during the past 20 years has...
A Worthy Adversary.(Review)
February 1, 2001... ARTHUR SCHLESINGER JR. A Life in the Twentieth Century: Innocent Beginnings, 1917-1950. HOUGHTON MIFFLIN. PAGES. $28.95
IN 1991, political correctness was at its height, the nation's top universities were instituting speech codes, and...
Liberalism v. The Disabled.(Review)
February 1, 2001... HANS S. REINDERS. The Future of the Disabled in Liberal Society. UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS. 280 PAGES. $35.00
STUNNING DEVELOPMENTS in the field of biotech have lately filled the news, from the cloning of Dolly the sheep to the mapping...
Defining Moments.(Review)
February 1, 2001... WILLIAM IAN MILLER. The Mystery of Courage. HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS. 384 PAGES. $29.95
WHEN I WAS 14 years old, waiting in a long line to board a school bus in front of my junior high school in suburban Maryland, a bully began knocking...
LETTERS.(Review)
February 1, 2001... Making Sense of Missile Defense
SIR, -- Mark Davis's article "Reagan's Real Reason for SDI" (October/November 2000) is both timely and on target. Can, or should, any responsible government avoidably leave its citizens open to devastating...