Recently added articles from Policy Review:
The Tories and the GOP: lessons in losing.(Features)
Aug 01, 2009; ... As THE CATHARSIS of electoral rejection gives way to the long march of opposition, Republicans might reflect on the experience of Britain's Conservative party, which in 1997 suffered its worst poll defeat since 1832. Two further defeats followed. By the next election, due by June 2010, the ...
Avoiding a nuclear crowd.(Essay)
Jun 01, 2009; ... IF CURRENT TRENDS continue, in a decade or less, the United Kingdom could find its nuclear forces eclipsed not only by those of Pakistan, but of Israel and India as well. Shortly thereafter, France could share the same fate. China, which has already amassed enough separated plutonium and ...
Underage drinking and the drinking age.(The Amethyst Initiative)(Report)
Jun 01, 2009; ... THE PROBLEM of underage drinking on college campuses has been brewing for many years to the continued vexation of higher education administrators. In 2008, John McCardell, president emeritus of Middlebury College, began to circulate for signature a public statement among colleagues titled ...
The financial markets and fear itself.(Viewpoint essay)
Jun 01, 2009; ... ECONOMISTS AND JOURNALISTS and business professors have struggled to explain the rush of Wall Street firms in the years 2004-06 into creating securities backed by mortgages to marginal borrowers, now seen as the genesis of a global financial panic and possibly a second "Great Depression." ...
Orwell's instructive errors.(George Orwell)(Critical essay)
Jun 01, 2009; ... YES, ORWELL IS still relevant. The particular manner in which he pierced worthless theory, faced facts and defended decency (with fluctuating success), and largely ignored the tradition of accumulated wisdom has rendered him a timeless teacher--one whose inadvertent lessons, while ...