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Policy Review articles from February 2002
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 2002
Doing justice during wartime: Why military tribunals make sense.
February 1, 2002... ON NOVEMBER 13, 2001, President Bush issued a Military Order authorizing the Department of Defense to create military commissions to try non-citizens who are members of al Qaeda or who have attempted or carried out acts of international...
Devil's advocates: The danger of judging lawyers by their clients.
February 1, 2002... THERE IS AN ESPECIALLY chilling moment in The Crucible, Arthur Miller's play about the 1692 Salem witch trials, when the principal protagonist, farmer John Protector, arrives in court to defend his wife against a charge of witchcraft. As the...
Do kids need government censors?
February 1, 2002... MOST AMERICAN PARENTS want to restrict children's access to entertainment glamorizing violence, sex, drug use, or vulgar language. Fashioning public policies toward that end is not, however, a simple task. Ideally, purveyors of "mature"...
China's America problem.
February 1, 2002... IN THE AFTERMATH of the terrorist attacks on the United States on September 11, numerous Chinese web users gloated in chat rooms over America's national tragedy. Declaring that the attacks were payback for America's imperialistic foreign...
Cloning red herrings: Why concerns about human-animal experiments are overblown.
February 1, 2002... IN FEBRUARY OR MARCH 2002, the U.S. Senate will consider several competing bills that address human cloning, stem cell research, and other issues dealing with reproductive biotechnology. Kansas Republican Sam Brownback has offered some of the...
The GOP's California blues.
February 1, 2002... NINETEEN EIGHTY-EIGHT is the answer to two California trivia questions: It's the last time the Dodgers won in the post-season and also the last time a Republican won either a presidential or Senate election in the Golden State. The baseball...
Charmed by tyranny. (Books).
February 1, 2002... MARK LILLA. The Reckless Mind: Intellectuals in Politics. NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKs. 230 PAGES. $24.95
UPON HIS liberation from Auschwitz and Dachau after World War II, the Polish writer Tadeusz Borowski set about recording the realities of...
Getting along. (Books).
February 1, 2002... JOHN GRAY. Two Faces of Liberalism. NEW PRESS. 162 PAGES. $25.00
"THIS IS A Religious War" was the as the title of Andrew Sullivan's cover story in the October 7 New York Times Magazine. Remarkably, in the climate that prevailed in the...
Letters.
February 1, 2002... The Realities of Warfare
SIR, -- If Scott Cooper is correct ("The Politics of Airstrikes," June/July 2001), and the problem isn't political micromanagement but the realities of coalition warfare, we, as the "lone superpower," had better...