Hoover Institution - Hoover Digest - Hoover Digest 2003 No. 4

America’s New Empire for Liberty
From the very beginning, historian Paul Johnson argues, Americans have been imperialists—good imperialists.

National Security

Spying in the Post–September 11 World
The attacks of September 11 made it clear that our intelligence organizations were too slow and inflexible to deal with the threat of international terrorism. Two years later, they still are. By Bruce Berkowitz.

What Now?
No one ever said that nation-building was going to be easy. By Michael McFaul.

Iraq

We Could Still Lose
Why the home front is more worrisome than the battlefield. By Victor Davis Hanson.

Bremer and Sisyphus
Hoover fellow Arnold Beichman on the challenges confronting Paul Bremer, America’s envoy to Iraq.

Dinner with the Eight of Spades
In 1985 Hoover fellow Abraham D. Sofaer attended a dinner in honor of Iraqi foreign minister Tariq Aziz. A tense exchange between Aziz and Donald Rumsfeld hinted at the conflict to come.

Iran

A Revolution Betrayed
In the aftermath of pro-democracy protests in Iran this summer, some 4,000 people were arrested. Political reformers and religious hard-liners are now at a standoff. Who will prevail? By Abbas Milani.

Kuwait

Democracy, Kuwaiti Style
An Arab state wrestles with its own clash of civilizations. By Peter Berkowitz.

Africa

If Economists Are So Smart, Why Is Africa So Poor?
Despite an enormous inflow of foreign aid, most African countries today are poorer than they were a generation ago. What’s gone wrong? By Hoover fellows Stephen Haber, Douglass C. North, and Barry R. Weingast.

Europe

Europe and America: A Cultural Divide?
The divide between the United States and Europe is even wider than you think. By Russell A. Berman.

Vive la France!
It is time for Jacques Chirac and Dominique de Villepin to be helped off their high horse. By Timothy Garton Ash.

Taxes

The Limits of Soaking the Rich
How California came to the end of the tax-and-spend road. By Jennifer Roback Morse.

Education

What Harry Potter Can Teach the Textbook Industry
What does Harry Potter have that school textbooks don’t? By Diane Ravitch.

Homework Pays Off
Hoover fellows Hanna Skandera and Richard Sousa on the correlation between homework and academic performance.

Race

After Michigan
In June the Supreme Court issued a definitive—if narrow—ruling that permits the consideration of race in university admissions. This may have been bad law—but was it a bad decision? By Robert Zelnick.

Regulation

While the Government Blunders, West Nile Virus Thrives
How misguided bureaucrats and environmentalists let a mosquito-borne disease spread. By Henry I. Miller.

Economics

How Globalization Helps the Poor
Whatever its critics may claim, globalization isn’t just for fat cats and multinational corporations. By Gary S. Becker.

Fighting Corporate Recidivism
Enron, HealthSouth, Tyco! What can be done to restore order and sanity to the executive suite? By Hoover overseer Thomas J. Healey.

Welfare

How Not to Combat Homelessness
As it confronts one of the worst problems of homelessness in the United States, San Francisco has been fighting over new ways to get people off its streets. By Hoover public affairs fellow Jeffrey Jones.

History and Culture

Our Own Hundred Years’ War
The Second World War, the Cold War, and now the war on terrorism—all can be seen as part of a single, epochal struggle. Clark S. Judge on the new hundred years’ war.

Our Hero
A speechwriter for six years in the Reagan White House, Hoover fellow Peter Robinson reflects on the place in history of the 40th chief executive.

E Pluribus Unum, California Style
What Europe can learn from California. By Timothy Garton Ash.