Recently added articles from Policy Review:
Conservative internationalism.(Company overview)
Aug 01, 2008; ... SINCE WORLD WAR II international relations specialists have debated two main traditions or schools of American foreign policy, realism and liberal internationalism. Realism identifies with Richard Nixon and looks to the balance of power to defend stability among ideologically diverse ...
Islam, the law, and the sovereignty of God.(Essay)
Jun 01, 2008; ... A central tenet of the Islamist position is that Shari'a (or sometimes the Qur'an and Sunna) can function as a constitution in Islamic states, promoting good and for-bidding evil, ensuring, when embodied institutionally, that law is in accord with Muslim precepts. This viewpoint runs ...
A better approach to foreign aid.(Essay)
Jun 01, 2008; ... FRUSTRATION WITH U.S. foreign aid is widespread. The left complains that the United States does not provide enough money to developing countries. The right laments that aid is an inefficient use of resources. Both sides are to some degree correct. While the United States distributed $23 ...
Deterring terrorists: what Israel has learned.(Essay)
Jun 01, 2008; ... "Only when not a single breach is visible in the iron wall, only then do extreme groups lose their sway, and influence transfers to moderate groups. Only then would these moderate groups come to us with proposals for mutual concessions." --Ze'ev Jabotinsky, "The Iron Wall," ...
Expanded deterrence: broadening the threat of retaliation.(Essay)
Jun 01, 2008; ... WE ARE FACING a threat that is catastrophic in its scale. (1) The damage that even a single attack with weapons of mass destruction would wreak could run into the millions of lives, and do egregious damage to American economic, political, and social structures. There is no graver threat to ...
The ultimate literary portrait.(The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.)(Critical essay)
Jun 01, 2008; ... AMONG THE GREAT encounters of literature, none ranks higher than the one that took place between James Boswell and Samuel Johnson in Tom Davis's bookstore in Russell Street, Covent Garden on Monday, May 16, 1763. Boswell, a 22-year-old Scot with literary ambitions, had long been desiring ...
Answering Edward said.(Defending the West: A Critique of Edward Said's Orientalism)(Book review)
Jun 01, 2008; ... IBN WARRAQ. Defending the West: A Critique of Edward Said's Orientalism. PROMETHEUS BOOKS. 556 PAGES. $29.95. IN THE SPRING of 2003, a few months before his death at age 67, Edward W. Said, world-famous Palestinian intellectual and activist and University Professor of English ...
The War Against himself.(The Second Plane)(Book review)
Jun 01, 2008; ... MARTIN AMIS. The Second Plane. KNOPE 211 PAGES.$24.00 MARTIN AMIS: IS there a contemporary writer of English whose prose shocks and delights more than his? Is there an Anglophone novelist possessing a more powerful and idiosyncratic vision? Any serious inquiry into these ...
Up from nutrition.(In Defense of Food)(Book review)
Jun 01, 2008; ... MICHAEL POLLAN. In Defense of Food. PENGUIN. 256 PAGES. $21.95 I HAD THE GOOD fortune, upon first moving to Washington D.C. after college, to room with a high-school buddy who had worked his way through George Washington University by waiting tables at a high-end restaurant and ...