Policy Review articles from June 2002

Policy Review archives from June 2002

Power and Weakness.
June 1, 2002... IT IS TIME to stop pretending that Europeans and Americans share a common view of the world, or even that they occupy the same world. On the all-important question of power -- the efficacy of power, the morality of power, the desirability of...

The state of the special relationship.
June 1, 2002... THE FORMER U.S. AMBASSADOR to the Court of St. J James, Ray Seitz, recalls in his autobiography preparations for President Bill Clinton's first meeting with Britain's then-prime minister, John Major. Sitting in the Oval Office, the president...

The future of "history": Francis Fukuyama vs. Samuel P. Huntington.
June 1, 2002... This is Samuel P. Huntington's moment. The world of cultural and religious strife anticipated by Huntington in his much-discussed (and widely excoriated) book, The Clash of Civilizations, has unquestionably arrived. Yet whether we might also...

Taxes, Dividends, and Distortions.
June 1, 2002... Had its stock descended from $90 to $1.60 and languished there, Enron Corporation would merely have joined dozens of other casualties of the new economy in Wall Street's purgatory. But the stock's final descent, from $1.6o to virtually zero,...

An open letter to Lawrence H. Summers.
June 1, 2002... Dear Larry YOU BEGAN YOUR HARVARD PRESIDENCY with promising hints that you might reverse the intellectual, moral, and political drift of America's most prestigious campus and thus bring a much-needed example of principled leadership to...

A Contest of Brutality. (Books).
June 1, 2002... ANTONY BEEVOR. The Fall of Berlin 1945. VIKING PRESS. 512 PAGES. $29.95 ONCE A YEAR, aging Red Army veterans who fought in the battle for Berlin gather in that city's suburb of Treptower Park, where some 5,ooo of their comrades are buried....

Worth the Cost. (Books).
June 1, 2002... DEREK LEEBAERT. The Fifty-Year Wound: The True Price of America's Cold War Victory. LITTLE, BROWN AND COMPANY. 768 PAGES. $29.95 ON ALL GREAT subjects,' says Mr. Mill, 'much remains to be said' and of none is this more true than of the...