Policy Review articles from June 2006

Policy Review archives from June 2006

The "soft war" for Europe's East.
June 1, 2006... SINCE THE ARREST of Mikhail Khodorkovsky on October 25, 2003, and the subsequent seizure of the Yukos oil company, democracy in Russia has entered into free fall. It is obvious in hindsight that the Bush administration badly misread the...

FEMA after Katrina.(Federal Emergency Management Agency)
June 1, 2006... FOLLOWING A DEVASTATING hurricane, the Federal Emergency Management Agency is in crisis. Should it be abolished? Should emergency management responsibilities be given to the military? Returned to the states? Consider the descriptions from a...

The secret of your success.(social mobility)
June 1, 2006... THE STUDY OF SOCIAL mobility is finally coming in from the cold (or at least from the Frigidaire of university sociology departments). A couple of years ago three of America's leading newspapers--the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and...

Age of the empirical.
June 1, 2006... PUNDITS AND POLITICIANS alike complain that virulent partisanship and the excessive power of special interests distort modern democracy. As result, it is difficult to elicit the consensus for policies that will promote the public interest....

Scary food.(food safety)
June 1, 2006... LIKE A SCENE from some Hollywood thriller, a team of U.S. Marshals stormed a warehouse in Irvington, New Jersey, last summer to intercept a shipment of evildoers from Pakistan. The reason you probably haven't heard about the raid is that the...

Gentlemen revolutionaries.(Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different)(Book review)
June 1, 2006... GORDON WOOD. Revolutionary Characters: What Made The Founders Different. THE PENGUIN PRESS. 306 PAGES. $25.95 THE NATURAL inclination to simplify public reality to suit private interests is amply illustrated by the attempts of successive...

Racist Raj?(The Ruling Caste: Imperial Lives in the Victorian Raj)(Sahib: The British Soldier in India 1750-1914)(Book review)
June 1, 2006... DAVID GILMOUR. The Ruling Caste: Imperial Lives in the Victorian Raj. FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX. 416 PAGES. $26.00 RICHARD HOLMES. Sahib: The British Soldier in India 1750-1914. HARPERCOLLINS. 572 PAGES. [pounds sterling]20.00 ...

Rooted cosmopolitans.(Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers)(Book review)
June 1, 2006... KWAME ANTHONY APPIAH. Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers. W.W. NORTON. 256 PAGES. $23.95 WHEN I WAS in graduate school, it was radical to be a cosmopolitan. Not only did cosmopolitans have a very capacious view of the duties we...