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Policy Review articles from June 2008
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 2008
Islam, the law, and the sovereignty of God.(Essay)
June 1, 2008... A central tenet of the Islamist position is that Shari'a (or sometimes the Qur'an and Sunna) can function as a constitution in Islamic states, promoting good and for-bidding evil, ensuring, when embodied institutionally, that law is in accord...
A better approach to foreign aid.(Essay)
June 1, 2008... FRUSTRATION WITH U.S. foreign aid is widespread. The left complains that the United States does not provide enough money to developing countries. The right laments that aid is an inefficient use of resources. Both sides are to some degree...
Deterring terrorists: what Israel has learned.(Essay)
June 1, 2008... "Only when not a single breach is visible in the iron wall, only then do extreme groups lose their sway, and influence transfers to moderate groups. Only then would these moderate groups come to us with proposals for mutual concessions."
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Expanded deterrence: broadening the threat of retaliation.(Essay)
June 1, 2008... WE ARE FACING a threat that is catastrophic in its scale. (1) The damage that even a single attack with weapons of mass destruction would wreak could run into the millions of lives, and do egregious damage to American economic, political, and...
The ultimate literary portrait.(The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.)(Critical essay)
June 1, 2008... AMONG THE GREAT encounters of literature, none ranks higher than the one that took place between James Boswell and Samuel Johnson in Tom Davis's bookstore in Russell Street, Covent Garden on Monday, May 16, 1763. Boswell, a 22-year-old Scot...
Answering Edward said.(Defending the West: A Critique of Edward Said's Orientalism)(Book review)
June 1, 2008... IBN WARRAQ. Defending the West: A Critique of Edward Said's Orientalism. PROMETHEUS BOOKS. 556 PAGES. $29.95.
IN THE SPRING of 2003, a few months before his death at age 67, Edward W. Said, world-famous Palestinian intellectual and activist...
The War Against himself.(The Second Plane)(Book review)
June 1, 2008... MARTIN AMIS. The Second Plane. KNOPE 211 PAGES.$24.00
MARTIN AMIS: IS there a contemporary writer of English whose prose shocks and delights more than his? Is there an Anglophone novelist possessing a more powerful and idiosyncratic vision?...
Up from nutrition.(In Defense of Food)(Book review)
June 1, 2008... MICHAEL POLLAN. In Defense of Food. PENGUIN. 256 PAGES. $21.95
I HAD THE GOOD fortune, upon first moving to Washington D.C. after college, to room with a high-school buddy who had worked his way through George Washington University by...