Policy Review articles from October 2000

Policy Review archives from October 2000

John Paul II, Intellectual.
October 1, 2000... AS THE SPIRITUAL LEADER to almost a billion Roman Catholics for the past 22 years, Pope John Paul II has stood astride the world stage as few others. But the magnitude of his influence is not just a function of the numbers of his followers. As...

Vedrinism: France's Global Ambition.
October 1, 2000... FRENCH FOREIGN MINISTER Hubert Vedrine was an architect of NATO'S Kosovo invasion, but he made his biggest impression on American France-watchers last June in Warsaw. There, at the close of a "democracy summit," he alone refused to sign a final...

The Transition: A Guide For the President-elect.
October 1, 2000... ONGE THE RESULTS of the longest campaign in American history are known, public and press attention will shift from the election to another quadrennial ritual in American politics, the transition. What the next president-elect does and doesn't...

Reagan's Real Reason For SDI.
October 1, 2000... "But it is inconceivable to me that we can go on thinking down the future, not only for ourselves and our lifetime but for other generations, that the great nations of the world will sit here, like people facing themselves across a table, each...

Making the Most Of the Surplus.
October 1, 2000... THE PROJECTED FEDERAL budget surplus continues to grow. For the current fiscal year, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projects the total surplus to finish around $232 billion, with $148 billion produced by the Social Security account, and...

Progress v. Progressive Education.(Review)
October 1, 2000... DIANE RAVITCH. Left Back: A Century of Failed School Reforms. SIMON & SCHUSTER. 560 PAGES. $30.00 EDWARD B. FISKE AND HELEN F. LADD. When Schools Compete: A Cautionary Tale. BROOKINGS INSTITUTION PRESS. 313 PAGES. $47.95 cloth, $18.95...

The Search for Class Politics.(Review)
October 1, 2000... RUY TEIXEIRA AND JOEL ROGERS. America's Forgotten Majority: Why the White Working Class Still Matters. BASIC BOOKS/A NEW REPUBLIC BOOK. 215 PAGES. $27.00 THERE IS A HINT of unintended callousness in the title of Ruy Teixeira and Joel...

We Could Have Lost The War.(Review)
October 1, 2000... WILLIAMSON MURRAY AND ALLAN R. MILLETT. A War to be Won: Fighting the Second World War. HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS. 656 PAGES. $35.00 COMMEMORATIONS this summer of the anniversary of the Normandy landing have been poignantly appropriate as...

Stock Market Democrats.(Review)
October 1, 2000... DANIEL GROSS. Bull Run: Wall Street, the Democrats, and the New Politics of Personal Finance. PUBLIC AFFAIRS. 236 PAGES. $25.00 SUMMARIZING HIS accomplishments at the Democratic convention in August, President Clinton mentioned that during...

LETTERS.
October 1, 2000... The Origins Of the Surplus SIR, -- June E. O'Neill's article, "The Story of the Surplus" (June/July 2000), misses the mark in addressing the underlying factors behind the Social Security problem. The proximate cause of Social Security's...