Towards an Optimal Governing Area
Kevin HassetThe world is getting smaller. The Internet, cheaptransportation, the spread of free and open markets, and surgingeducation of the masses are steadily eroding the last vestiges ofeconomic...
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Gerard BakerJames Mann, The Rise of the Vulcans: The History of Bush's War Cabinet (New York: Penguin, 2004), 426 pp., $16.Patrick Buchanan, Where the Right Went Wrong: How Neoconservatives Subverted...
View ArticleEurope's New Narrative
Martin WalkerTony Judt, Postwar: A History of Europe since 1945 (Penguin Press: New York, 2005), 964 pp., $39.95THE THEME of Tony Judt's magisterial history of Europe since 1945 hinges on the symbolic...
View ArticleClinging to Faith
Paul HollanderThe collapse of communist states in Eastern Europe in 1989 and of the Soviet Union itself in 1991 was widely assumed to mark the end of the historical career of communist systems and...
View ArticleAhead of the Curve: The TNI Archives
Six-party talks over North Korea's nuclear weapons program are set to resume this Thursday on the heels of failed talks in December and Kim Jong-il's provocative nuclear test in October. TNI takes a...
View ArticlePerestroika Cubana
Raj M. DesaiItzhak GoldbergON APRIL 21, 2007, Granma, the official newspaper of the Cuban Communist Party released photos of a convalescing Fidel Castro meeting with a senior member of the Politburo of...
View ArticleThe End of Multiculturalism
Lawrence E. HarrisonFUTURE GENERATIONS may look back on Iraq and immigration as the two great disasters of the Bush presidency. Ironically, for a conservative administration, both of these policy...
View ArticleKim III
David C. KangNorth Korea's brazen second nuclear test has once again caused instability within Northeast Asia and created yet another crisis for the new Obama administration. This test-like North...
View ArticleQuiet Diplomacy
Drew ThompsonOn your sixtieth anniversary, you are supposed to give a diamond. For China and North Korea's (DPRK) sixtieth anniversary, China got another nuclear test. After all the indignities Kim...
View ArticleKim's Heir
Doug BandowPresident George W. Bush famously said that he "loathed" North Korea's Kim Jong-il. Yet the United States might come to miss the brutal dictator, with his abundant gut and bouffant hair....
View ArticleTeuton the Introvert
Jacob HeilbrunnFREIBURG, A university town nestled in a valley at the foot of the Black Forest in southwest Germany, is where the philosopher Martin Heidegger, who wore a Nazi Party badge for the...
View ArticleDavid Cameron: Centrist
Geoffrey Wheatcroft“Everybody has won, and all must have prizes,” said the Dodo, but although the British general election was in some ways reminiscent of Alice in Wonderland, it turned out the other...
View ArticleFinding Forster
Ian Buruma IN 1935, the stakes could not have been higher. Hitler ruled Germany. Mussolini had been in power for thirteen years. Civil war was brewing in Spain. Stalin was poised to begin his bloodiest...
View ArticleThe Arrogance of Universal Democracy
Leon HadarDespite failures in Iraq and Afghanistan, some of the West’s most prominent intellectuals still operate under the assumption that liberal values are universal.In his new magnum opus, The...
View ArticleIs Gridlock a Conservative Victory?
Amitai EtzioniIf you believe that the consensus of the pundits can be wrong, please read on. Washington is not so much gridlocked as it is subject to a string of conservative victories in foreign...
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