Policy Review articles from October 2005

Policy Review archives from October 2005

How eminent domain ran amok.
October 1, 2005... FOR MANY YEARS, the subject of eminent domain, or "takings," was the purview chiefly of academics and a narrow subspecialty of lawyers. But after June 23, 2005, when the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its 5-4 decision in Kelo v. City of New...

The overpraised American.
October 1, 2005... "EVERY AGE DEVELOPS its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure," the historian and social critic Christopher Lasch wrote in The Culture of Narcissism. For Lasch, writing in 1979,...

What to do about Russia.
October 1, 2005... IN HIS FIRST TERM IN office, President George W. Bush established and nurtured a close personal relationship with Russian President Vladimir V. Putin. Early on, Bush's overtures toward his counterpart in the Kremlin produced beneficial results...

Public diplomacy: lessons from King and Mandela.(Nelson Mandela)(Martin Luther King, Jr.)
October 1, 2005... AMERICA HAS AN image problem. While the problem is serious, it is complicated by more variation than is usually ascribed to it. For example, according to the Pew Global Attitudes Survey of June 2005, the "U.S. image [is] up slightly, but still...

A worthy war critic.(The Assassins' Gate)(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... GEORGE PACKER. The Assassins' Gate. FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX. 480 PAGES. $26.00 THE WAR IN Iraq has broken down familiar political categories and overturned typical foreign policy priorities. Both right and left have struggled to adjust,...

Taking the great out of Britain.(Never Had It So Good: A History of Britain from Suez to the Beatles)(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... DOMINIC SANDBROOK. Never Had It So Good: A History of Britain from Suez to the Beatles. LITTLE BROWN. 848 PAGES. $41.35 ONCE, WHEN ASKED what represented the greatest challenge for a statesman, British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan...