National Review articles from February 2003

National Review archives from February 2003

Letters.(Letter to the Editor)
February 24, 2003... --As a doctor, I appreciated Rod Dreher's article "USDA-Disapproved" (Jan. 27). Unfortunately, Congress also favors factory farms over the health of consumers. In 2002 it failed to pass bills endorsed by the AMA that would have phased out...

The Week.(support for war with Iraq increases; Democratic policies in war with Iraq; Miguel Estrada's judicial nomination)
February 24, 2003... -- Secretary of State Powell left something out that might even win over the Left. In meetings with Iraqi children, cigar-loving Saddam routinely exposes them to a weapon of mass destruction-second-hand smoke. -- Late January and early...

Taxes: The Bush Revolution.(President Bush's new tax proposals)
February 24, 2003... The Washington Post says that President Bush's new tax proposals are "audacious" and "radical," and that Bush has "picked up the fallen standard of the Reagan Revolution." One almost gets the sense that the Post thinks these are bad things....

THE Columbia: After Mourning.(space shuttle Columbia explosion)
February 24, 2003... We mourn the seven men and women who died on the space shuttle Columbia; we are awed by the fragility of human life when we venture beyond our natural earthly bounds; we are awed by death, which comes to us all. But if the reaction to this...

AIDS IN AFRICA: Mission Control.(Pres. Bush's plan to triple US spending on fighting AIDS in Africa)
February 24, 2003... President Bush's new $15 billion AIDS-fighting initiative for Africa will triple U.S. spending on the crisis. It is a "work of mercy," says Bush-a mission-one undertaken by a "blessed country" that recognizes its moral responsibility to help...

Notes & Asides.(current events humor)
February 24, 2003... -- Dear Bill: I know you are going to be surprised to get a letter from me. I am not asking you for money or a free subscription to National Review, which I can pick up for free at LaGuardia Airport when taking the shuttle. Bear with me. I...

French Kiss-off: Lafayette, where are you?(reasons France is blocking US plans for war with Iraq)
February 24, 2003... The persistent, at times vicious, hostility displayed by France towards the United States in recent months requires some explanation. Part of the explanation is practical, materialistic, even sordid. Both France and her ally (for this purpose)...

Follow the Money: The antiwar money, that is.(finance of antiwar group Not In Our Name)
February 24, 2003... The antiwar group Not In Our Name has attracted a lot of attention in recent months by publishing a "statement of conscience" in newspapers across the country. The organization purchased two full pages in the January 27 New York Times to run...

This Will Hurt: Bush takes on Medicare.
February 24, 2003... Here we go again. In 1995, Republicans were basking in the aftermath of a historic election victory that had brought them more power than they had enjoyed in decades. They decided to use their new power to reform Medicare, the health program...

Let 'Em Talk!: The case for real, not fake, filibusters.
February 24, 2003... As he seeks to get his ambitious agenda through Congress, President Bush is going to learn that his chief legislative opponent isn't Tom Daschle or Nancy Pelosi. The legislative roadblock that threatens to derail his initiatives and nominations...

After Columbia: NASA ought to have clear and sensible purposes.
February 24, 2003... But I, remembering, pitied well And loved them, who, with lonely light, In empty infinite spaces dwell, Disconsolate. For, all the night, I heard the thin gnat-voices cry, Star to faint star, across the sky. Rupert...

A Dose of Davos: Talk about a 'global village'!(World Economic Forum)
February 24, 2003... Davos, Switzerland It's really true: Everyone is here. I mean, everyone and his brother. No wonder the resentful resent Davos so much. It's almost enough to make you believe in conspiracy! The World Economic Forum features heads of state,...

The Great Game in Europe: How the U.S. can play.
February 24, 2003... All great realignments are hammered out on the anvil of crisis. Ever since the end of the Cold War, both U.S. domestic politics and the shape of the West have been in an uncertain state. With socialism and statist liberalism discredited by the...

Maids, Slaves, and Prisoners: To be employed in a Saudi home.(forced servitude of women in Saudi Arabia and in homes of Saudis in US)
February 24, 2003... One night in 1998, "Saida," a young Filipina, was carried bloody and unconscious into a hospital emergency room. The Saudi man who took her there was not a Good Samaritan; he was her rapist. He was also a good friend of the Saudi couple who...

Get Your Wonder Drugs!: But do you know what it takes to produce them?(high costs of drug research and development)
February 24, 2003... Harry Howard almost made the biggest blunder of his life when he tossed the building blocks of a wonder drug into a laboratory trash bag 14 years ago. He had just created a new molecule at Pfizer's research building in Groton, Conn.-a molecule...

The Long View.(satire on French and German opposition to war with Iraq)
February 24, 2003... From Le In-Box of Le President de la Republique to: jchirac@wanadoo.co.fr from: herrschroeder@aol.com subj: I am feeling a bit glumptecktikvrauzenheit Jacques: I have just read the statement by the so-called nations of...

The Book on Bush.(The Right Man: The Surprise Presidency of George W. Bush)(Book Review)
February 24, 2003... The Right Man: The Surprise Presidency of George W. Bush, by David Frum (Random House, 303 pp., $25.95) Four decades ago, former White House speechwriter Emmett Hughes caused a stir in Washington with a thoughtful memoir of the Eisenhower...

Perils of 'Empire'.(American Empire: The Realities and Consequences of U.S. Diplomacy)(Book Review)
February 24, 2003... American Empire: The Realities and Consequences of U.S. Diplomacy, by Andrew J. Bacevich (Harvard, 320 pp., $29.95) In reading the Federalist Papers, one becomes acutely aware of how much their authors felt they were attempting to outrun...

The Truth-Spiller.(Red Spy Queen: A Biography of Elizabeth Bentley)(Book Review)
February 24, 2003... Red Spy Queen: A Biography of Elizabeth Bentley, by Kathryn S. Olmsted (North Carolina, 288 pp., $27.50) On November 7, 1945, Elizabeth Bentley walked into the New York office of the FBI. She emerged after eight hours of interrogation,...

Mercury Rising.(The Heaven of Mercury)(Book Review)
February 24, 2003... The Heaven of Mercury, by Brad Watson (Norton, 288 pp., $23.95) Brad Watson's collection of short stories, Last Days of the Dog-Men, gained him accolades, a national audience, and a teaching gig at Harvard. Though a justly praised book, it...

The Straggler: Dads and Cads.(child-raising guilt)
February 24, 2003... My sister's children were fully grown at the time my own first child was born, so she was handy with advice. Her first precept was: "John, parenting equals guilt." How right she was! When I contemplate my own offspring, currently aged ten and...

BOOKS IN BRIEF.(The American Republic)(The Breakaway Pope)(Book Review)(Brief Article)
February 24, 2003... The American Republic, by Orestes Brownson (ISI, 450 pp., $29.95) Perhaps the strangest thing about American conservatives is that they cannot ever agree on what American conservatism is. Some snarl at the name of Lincoln, others become...

On the Right.(exile for Saddam Hussein; US-Europe relations; State of the Union Address)(Column)
February 24, 2003... A Future for Saddam NEW YORK, JANUARY 21 The talk now is of contriving an exile for Saddam Hussein. We think back on the last impasse with Saddam Hussein. It was in November 1990 that the United States successfully urged on the...

What's Right.(war with Iraq)
February 24, 2003... The 'Rush' to War, and The Day After Never How often do we hear it said that America is "rushing toward war"? Presidential candidate John F. Kerry warned against the "rush to war" in a major speech at Georgetown University on January 23....