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Revel’s Uncommon Insight

by Apoorva Shahvia Policy Review
Thursday, April 1, 2010

Apoorva Shah on Last Exit to Utopia by Jean-François Revel.

The Exceptional Document

by Peter Berkowitzvia Policy Review
Thursday, April 1, 2010

Peter Berkowitz on The Citizen’s Constitution: An Annotated Guide by Seth Lipsky.

South Africa’s Fading Promise

by James Kirchickvia Policy Review
Monday, February 1, 2010

James Kirchick on South Africa’s Brave New World by R.W. Johnson.

Where the Autocrats Rule On

by Fouad Ajamivia Hoover Digest
Thursday, January 14, 2010

Now that the U.S. freedom agenda has quietly been shelved, Arab lands can only reflect on what might have been. By Fouad Ajami.

Refocusing Civil Rights Law

Refocusing Civil Rights Law

by Richard A. Epsteinvia Hoover Digest
Thursday, January 14, 2010

Enforcement needs to keep moving forward, just as society does. “Disparate impact” lawsuits have outlived their usefulness. By Richard A. Epstein.

cartoon of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Universal Questioner

by Peter Berkowitzvia Hoover Digest
Thursday, January 14, 2010

Hoover fellow Peter Berkowitz on Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, the late Soviet dissident and honorary Hoover fellow to whom “one word of truth outweighed the whole world.”

Tattered Road Map

by Robert Zelnickvia Hoover Digest
Thursday, January 14, 2010

Even in a land divided so bitterly and so long, modest hopes persist. By Robert Zelnick.

Visited by Furies

by Fouad Ajamivia Hoover Digest
Thursday, January 14, 2010

Since 9/11, Americans have relaxed. The terrorists haven’t. By Fouad Ajami.

Microfilmed images from a KGB dossier show, left to right, Akop Stepanian, Stepan Zatikian, and Zaven Bagdasarian.

Secret Justice Is No Justice

by Mark Harrisonvia Hoover Digest
Thursday, January 14, 2010

Moscow hunted, caught, and punished three terrorists in the late 1970s. Or did it? KGB documents show how a climate of secrecy may leave the case forever in doubt. By Mark Harrison.

Test Your Social Literacy

by Chester E. Finn Jr.via Hoover Digest
Thursday, January 14, 2010

A decent education doesn’t merely confer good grades. It confers the ability to understand complex social issues—the health care battle, for instance. By Chester E. Finn Jr.

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The Working Group on the Role of Military History in Contemporary Conflict examines how knowledge of past military operations can influence contemporary public policy decisions concerning current conflicts.