Policy Review articles from June 1999

Policy Review archives from June 1999

Disruption & Redemption.(Review)
June 1, 1999... FRANCIS FUKUYAMA. The Great Disruption: Human Nature and the Reconstitution of Social Order. FREE PRESS. 336 PAGES. $26.00 THE RANKS of conservatism are filled with cultural pessimists. There are those who think the ethos of the 1960s...

The Way the World Works.(Review)
June 1, 1999... THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN. The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization. FARRAR STRAUS & GIROUX. 382 PAGES. $27.50 ONE OF THE MOST misunderstood formulations of economics is "comparative advantage." All the term means is that if you...

Men at War.(Review)
June 1, 1999... MARK BOWDEN. Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War. ATLANTIC MONTHLY PRESS. 386 pages. $24.00 FOR MOST of this century, the cultural depiction of war has centered on the soldiers doing the fighting. The result has been one intimate...

Diversity on Trial.
June 1, 1999... Three views from Boalt Hall EDITOR'S NOTE: Boalt Hall, universally regarded as one of the top law schools in the nation, is a crucible of this country's dispute over diversity. As a public institution, part of the University of California...

Impeachable Defenses.
June 1, 1999... MOMENTOUS PUBLIC ISSUES, like impeachment, have at least this virtue: They promote political accountability by forcing citizens to take positions that will be remembered. Such public reasoning carries with it the risk of public exposure. During...

Lessons Our 401(k)s Taught Us.
June 1, 1999... THE NEED TO REFORM the tottering Ponzi scheme that is our Social Security system is widely accepted among policy makers, even if the political willingness to tackle the subject is lacking. Today's system, in which current workers pay the...

Russia: Too Sick to Matter?(Statistical Data Included)
June 1, 1999... For Russia and its people, the nightmare of Soviet totalitarianism has come to an end, only to be followed by a phenomenon much more familiar in Russian history: a "time of troubles." And although this current "time of troubles" is surely less...

What Voters Want.
June 1, 1999... The Politics of Personal Connection It is pardonable to be defeated, but never to be surprised. - Frederick the Great NEWT GINGRICH STOOD before the TV cameras on election night 1998 confused, angry, and disoriented. He had expected to...