Reflections on the Persian Gulf War from an officer who served in Operation Desert Storm.
Essays
On the 10th anniversary of the triumphant end of the Persian Gulf War, and only months before 9/11, Andrew J. Bacevich wrote this prophetic critique of the new conception of America’s role in the world he said had emerged from the victory. Bacevich wrote a number of articles for the WQ after he retired as a colonel from the Army in the 1990s.
Alarmingly high rates of disease and death, along with very low birth rates, threaten Russia´s survival as a nation.
The peripatetic hero of The Adventures of Augie March spoke in an idiom entirely new to American literature--an astonishing mix of the high-flown and the low-down. Christopher Hitchens explains why, after almost half a century, Augie remains vibrant and irresistible.
Time may be running out on the effort to reconcile the dream of a united Europe with the reality of a Europe that is large and highly diverse.
In the age-old quest for evidence of a harmonious universe, astronomers and others have gone to unusual lengths.
THE MARTIAL ARTS OF RENAISSANCE EUROPE. By Sydney Anglo. Yale Univ. Press. 384 pp. $45
"Pondering a Popular Vote" by Alexis Simendinger, James A. Barnes, and Carl M. Cannon, "As Maine and Nebraska Go..." by Michael Steel, "Can It Be Done?" by Richard E. Cohen and Louis Jacobson, and "What Were They Thinking?" by Burt Solomon, in National Journal (Nov. 18, 2000), 1501 M St., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20005.
"Congress and the Welfare State" by James T. Patterson, in Social Science History (Summer 2000), Duke Univ. Press, Box 90660, Durham, N.C. 27708–0660.