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Hoover Digest 2006 No. 2
April 30, 2006
What Ancient History Tells Us about the War
What the war between democratic Athens and oligarchic Sparta tells us about the war between us and the terrorists. A cautionary tale (Athens lost). By Victor Davis Hanson.
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April 30, 2006
The Task before Us
Rebuilding Iraq will require uncommon perseverance -- and large amounts of money, manpower, and time. By Colonel William Hix.
April 30, 2006
Tomorrow's World War Today
The Great Gulf War of 2007-11? A disquieting glimpse of what the future might hold if we fail to deal with the nuclear threat in Iran. By Niall Ferguson.
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April 30, 2006
Options Nobody Likes
Carrots don't seem to be having the desired effect on the hard-liners in Tehran. Perhaps it's time for the stick. By Tod Lindberg.
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April 30, 2006
The End of Days
Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad may seem absurd, but his apocalyptic worldview is deadly serious. We ignore his "war of destiny" at our peril. By Victor Davis Hanson.
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April 30, 2006
How Iran Can Yet Be Tamed
Behind the scenes in Tehran, a fierce power struggle is now taking place. The West can exploit it. By Michael McFaul and Abbas Milani.
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April 30, 2006
On the Economics of Capital Punishment
"I support the use of capital punishment for persons convicted of murder because, and only because, I believe it deters murders." By Gary S. Becker.
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April 30, 2006
The Cure for Poverty? Wealth
If creating wealth is the best way to lift people out of poverty, why is the left so uninterested? Thomas Sowell explains.
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April 30, 2006
Medicine for What Ails Us
Health savings accounts will give consumers more choices and control spiraling health-care costs. Sound like a no-brainer? It is. By John P. Cogan, R. Glenn Hubbard, and Daniel P. Kessler.
April 30, 2006
Doctors, Post Your Prices
The best prescription for the nation's ailing health-care system? A powerful dose of free market. By Scott W. Atlas.
April 30, 2006
What to Expect from the Avian Flu
Ready or not, her it comes. Henry I. Miller tells us what we need to know about the avain flu.
April 30, 2006
How to Fix "No Child Left Behind"
Four years into NCLB, the math and science outlook in our schools remains troubling. What must be done to fix the problem -- before the United States itself gets left behind. By Chester E. Finn and Michael J. Petrilli.
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April 30, 2006
Armed Forces: 8, Law School: 0
Showing the wisdom of Solomon, the Supreme Court unanimously rejected law schools' challenge to "don't ask, don't tell." By Peter Berkowitz.
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April 30, 2006
The Case for a Citizens' Assembly
How to break the gridlock in the Golden State? Here's a crazy idea that makes a startling amount of sense. By David Davenport.
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April 30, 2006
The Battle over Mono Lake
In the tug-of-war over water rights in the ever-thirsty West, the market is the best judge and jury we have. By Gary D. Libecap.
April 30, 2006
Down on Hilary's Plantation
"Must blacks have their slave past rubbed in their face simply for Hilary Clinton to make a little hay aganst modern-day Republicans?" By Shelby Steele.
April 30, 2006
Angela Merkel: A Star Is Born
What a difference a year makes. Auf wiedersehen, Gerhard Schröder. Guten tag, Angela Merkel. By Tod Lindberg.
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April 30, 2006
Sarkozy's Big Adventure
While Jacques Chirac and Dominique de Villepin continue to stumble, Nicolas Sarkozy has bided his time. Now he's ready to make his move. But is France ready for him? By Patrick Chamorel.
April 30, 2006
Between a Rock and a Hard Place
We may smile over the Moscow "spy rock" scandal, but no one is laughing in the Kremlin. Timothy Garton Ash explains why Putin has all but declared war on nongovernmental organizations.
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April 30, 2006
War and Peace in the Congo
Congo's intractable warfare has been horrific, even by African standards. Finally—after 15 years and 4 million deaths—peace may be in the offing. By Herbert F. Weiss.
April 30, 2006
Who Lost Latin America?
James Monroe must be turning over in his grave. Niall Ferguson explores our strange indifference to events south of the border.
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April 30, 2006
The Caudillo and the Chinese
Just how reciprocal is the courtship between Venezuela and China anyway? Pssst...don't tell Hugo, but the Chinese only love him for his oil. By William Ratliff.
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April 30, 2006
After Fidel
El Jefe will soon be gone (really). Timothy C. Brown explains how to replace Cuba Revolucionaria with Cuba Capitalista.
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April 30, 2006
Cuba's Struggle to Awake
As Cuba comes to after its long nightmare, what policy should the United States adopt? Realism. By William Ratliff.
April 30, 2006
Turning Over a New Maple Leaf
What the new prime minister, Stephen Harper, a conservative, must do to turn Canada around: cut taxes and fight crime. By Arnold Beichman.
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April 30, 2006
The Speech That Shook the World
Fifty years ago, Nikita Khrushchev denounced Josef Stalin in a speech to the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Robert Conquest on an event "so surprising and unexpected that some members of the audience actually fainted."
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April 30, 2006
What I Found in Mr. Hoover's Papers
Herbert Hoover understood that history is to be discovered not just in official documents but in the little details of the past. By Robert Service.