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Policy Review articles from October 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 October 2008
Leviathan then and now.
October 1, 2008... UNTIL RELATIVELY RECENTLY, students of politics and ideas generally regarded Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan (16 51) as the outstanding work of political philosophy in the English language. Over the past several decades, however, professors of...
The futility of class warfare.
October 1, 2008... THE "RACE CARD" was once an effective ploy in electoral politics. Southern Democrats long used it to rally white voters. In the wake of the civil rights movement, the Republicans took possession of the race card. Nixon used it to strike fear in...
The need for missile defense.
October 1, 2008... DESPITE IRAN'S RUNAWAY nuclear program, North Korea's atomic assistance to Syria, and robust ballistic missile production and testing by Russia and China, a missile defense system for protecting the homeland and U.S. interests overseas remains...
How the Soviet system cracked.
October 1, 2008... THE SOVIET FLAG was lowered from atop the Kremlin on December 25, 1991. It is doubtful this event will ever be memorialized in Russia, whose current prime minister characterizes it as the "greatest political disaster of the twentieth century."...
The Irish prophet.(Books)
October 1, 2008... EDMUND BURKE ONCE asked his friend, the actor and theatre manager David Garrick, why the audience would always titter when a group of Roman senators appeared on stage. That was easily explained, Garrick replied. The audience laughed because...
Fighting words.(Books)
October 1, 2008... JIM WEBB, ELECTED by Virginia to the United States Senate in 2006, is the finest novelist ever to serve in Congress. One must temper this praise by adding that he is the only novelist of any note ever to serve in Congress. Other nations can...
One side only.(Books)
October 1, 2008... JANE MAYER BEGINS her new bestseller with a subtitle that, even before the book's opening page, warrants a moment's reflection: On The Dark Side's cover appear the words: "The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American...
007, defanged.(Books)
October 1, 2008... "I HAVE JUST FINISHED what is without a doubt the nastiest book I have ever read," wrote Paul Johnson, in the April 5, 1958, New Statesman.
It is a new novel entitled Dr. No and the author is Mr. Ian
Fleming. Echoes of Mr. Fleming's...
Iraq, round three.(Books)
October 1, 2008... WE ARE NOW seeing a third generation of books about the five-and-a-half year-long Iraq war. After the spectacular removal of Saddam Hussein in April 2003, a number of quickly written accounts by journalists and historians such as John Keegan,...