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Policy Review articles from June 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 June 2001
A Publication of the Hoover Institution.
June 1, 2001... WITH THIS ISSUE, Policy Review has become a publication of the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. Tod Lindberg, who in 1999 became editor of Policy Review, continues in that capacity, and has also been appointed research fellow at Hoover....
Home-Alone America.(children and violence)
June 1, 2001... IN EARLY MARCH, when the latest teenage killer to make national news opened fire in a high school near San Diego with the deadliest display of such violence since the murders at Columbine two years ago, the usual public scramble for...
The Perils Of Precaution.(environmental and public health policy)
June 1, 2001... Why Regulators' "Precautionary Principle" Is Doing More Harm Than Good
ENVIRONMENTAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH activists have clashed with scholars and risk-analysis professionals for decades over the appropriate regulation of various risks,...
Europe in the Balance.
June 1, 2001... The Alarmingly Undemocratic Drift Of the European Union
EVER SINCE THE COLD WAR ended 10 years ago, the nations of Western and Central Europe have rapidly moved to transform the European Economic Community, the "Common Market," into a...
The Politics of Airstrikes.
June 1, 2001... IN THEIR BOOK Thinking in Time: The Uses of History for Decision-Makers (1986), Harvard professors Richard Neustadt and Ernest May make an important observation. Washington decision makers, and even academics, students, journalists, and the...
Wishing Away The Culture War.(Review)
June 1, 2001... ALAN WOLFE. Moral Freedom: The Impossible Idea That Defines the Way We Live Now. W.W. NORTON & COMPANY. 256 PAGES. $24.95
IN FEBRUARY 1999, stunned by President Clinton's acquittal in the Senate, conservative activist Paul Weyrich attracted...
The Confirmation Process We Deserve.(Review)
June 1, 2001... MICHAEL J. GERHARDT. The Federal Appointments Process: A Constitutional and Historical Analysis.
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS. 416
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IN THE END, they (almost) all made it. Despite all the speculation and the saber rattling,...
China, Taken Personally.(Review)
June 1, 2001... PETER HESSLER. River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze. HARPERCOLLINS. 402. PAGES. $ 26.00
PETER HESSLER has written a fascinating and sobering book about his life in China. From 1996 to 1998, Hessler lived in a remote city in China's western...
LETTERS.
June 1, 2001... Is Pornography A Problem?
SIR, -- Regarding Holman W. Jenkins Jr.'s "Pornography, Main Street to Wall Street" (February/March 2001), let me offer some real-world corroboration that something is terribly wrong. I just quit working at an...