Policy Review articles from October 2007

Policy Review archives from October 2007

The FDA's risky risk-aversion.
October 1, 2007... DURING THE PAST half-century, the stunning pace of scientific progress has yielded powerful tools for pharmaceutical development, including rational drug design, combinatorial chemistry, gene-splicing, DNA sequencing, gene therapy, and...

The civilian side of the war on terror.
October 1, 2007... ON DECEMBER 5, 2006, Taliban fighters repulsed a company of British Royal Marines attacking a village on the Helmand River in Afghanistan. The Marines enjoyed substantial air and artillery support, but the Taliban fighters were victorious,...

Knowing the enemy.
October 1, 2007... THE CONFLICTS IN Iraq, Lebanon, and Afghanistan and the global Islamist insurgency have revealed that Western democracies and their political and military leaders do not fully comprehend the multifaceted threats represented by radical Muslim...

Friends and the law.(Essay)
October 1, 2007... FRIENDS ARE AT the center of most of our lives. Yet public policymakers and lawyers rarely spend any time thinking about how the structure of our public policies and our law can help sustain and promote our friendships with our nearest and...

A very rising man.
October 1, 2007... "IN THE THEATRE, where I again saw 'The Lost Lady' which now pleases me better than before. And here where I sat back in a dark corner, a lady turned around and spat at me by mistake, as she did not see me. But when I saw she was a most...

The cycle of wishful thinking.(Books)(Book review)
October 1, 2007... BARRY RUBIN. The Truth about Syria. PALGRAVE MACMILLAN. 304 PAGES. $24.95 "THE AGE OF illusions is over," the historian Walter Laqueur wrote recently, referring to the illusions the West continues to entertain about the confrontation with...

Divine authority.
October 1, 2007... REMI BRAGUE. The Law of God: The Philosophical History of an Idea. TRANSLATED BY LYDIA G. COCHRANE. UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS. 354 PAGES. $35.00 IF SOCRATES WERE alive today, his delight in iconoclasm would bring him to study history,...

Conserving Russell Kirk.
October 1, 2007... GEORGE A. PANICHAS, ED. The Essential Russell Kirk: Selected Essays. ISI Books. 640 PAGES. $20.00 CONSERVATISM IN general, and in particular the social or traditionalist conservatism reclaimed by the extraordinary lifelong labors of...

Infidel tales.(Book review)
October 1, 2007... AYAAN HIRSI ALI. Infidel. FREE PRESS. 353 PAGES. $26.00 NONIE DARWISH. Now They Call Me Infidel: Why I Renounced Jihad for America, Israel, and the War on Terror. SENTINEL. 272 PAGES. $23.95 FROM SOURCES AS diverse as Bernard Lewis and the...