Category: Current Events

July 17, 2008

The Measure of America

Yesterday, at a press conference in Washington D.C., the authors of The Measure of America: American Human Development Report 2008-2009 discussed the results of their groundbreaking study on the health and well-being of the United States.The report reveals some of...

July 16, 2008

The Los Angeles Times reviews Dubai: The Vulnerability of Success

The Los Angeles Times just ran a very favorable review of Christopher Davidson’s Dubai: The Vulnerability of Success. As the review points out, Dubai’s wealth and booming economy does not come from oil but from trade, luxury tourism, high technology,...

July 15, 2008

The New Yorker Cover Controversy and the History of Editorial Cartoons

While the New Yorker Obama cover has been dominating the news cycle for the past 24 hours, disputes and controversies regarding editorial cartoons are hardly new. Here are a couple of books that offer some historical perspective: In her forthcoming...

July 14, 2008

What's Different About the Immigration Problem We Face Today — And What Can Be Done About It?: A Post by Phil Kretsedemas

There is an interesting article by Phil Kretsedemas, co-editor of Keeping Out the Other: A Critical Introduction to Immigration Enforcement Today, on History News Network which looks at the history of immigration policy and how the United States has defined...

July 1, 2008

The Measure of America

In the coming weeks, we’ll be writing much more about the forthcoming The Measure of America: American Human Development Report 2008-2009 but for now we wanted to let you know that the American Human Development Project has set up a...

June 30, 2008

Richard Betts and Intelligence Reform

The Washington Note recently cited Richard Betts’s newest book Enemies of Intelligence: Knowledge and Power in American National Security for its impact on policymakers and legislators in Washington D. C. Thomas Fingar, the Chairman of the National Intelligence Council, favored...

June 27, 2008

William Duggan and R. Glenn Hubbard on a Marshall Plan for Africa

The always interesting Policy Innovations recently excerpted from William Duggan and R. Glenn Hubbard’s article “The Forgotten Lessons of the Marshall Plan”, which originally appeared in Strategy & Business. Duggan, author of Strategic Intuition: The Creative Spark in Human Achievement,...

June 20, 2008

Sue OPEC: An Op-Ed from Thomas W. Evans

In an opinion piece in yesterday’s New York Times, Thomas W. Evans, a former adviser to presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush and the author of The Education of Ronald Reagan: The General Electric Years and the Untold...

June 11, 2008

A Review of Olivier Roy’s The Politics of Chaos in the Middle East from "A Fistful of Euros"

We had meant to post something about this sooner but earlier this month A Fistful of Euros (AFOE) reviewed Olivier Roy’s The Politics of Chaos in the Middle East. (Read a pdf of the Roy’s introduction here.) AFOE is an...

June 5, 2008

Benjamin Barber on the Clinton Legacy

With Hillary Clinton dropping out of the race and Bill Clinton recently telling a crowd in South Dakota that he may not be involved in another political campaign, attention will undoubtedly once again turn to examining the Clinton legacy and...

May 21, 2008

Lt. General Ricardo Sanchez and his role in the Administration of Torture

In his review of Lt. General Ricardo Sanchez’s new book Wiser in Battle: A Soldier’s Story, Scott McLemee of Bloomberg.com notes that the former head of coalition forces in Iraq offers a similar message found in other books about how...

May 14, 2008

The North Korean Food Crisis – Again

In a recent event at the Peterson Institute for International Economics , Marcus Noland, co-author of Famine in North Korea: Markets, Aid, and Reform, spoke about the dire prospects of a food crisis in the reclusive North Korean state. Both...