Presi- dent Bill Clinton last December. Proponents, such as the editors of the New Yorker (Dec. 13,1993), hailed the measure as a first national step toward eliminating the deadly menace of unregulated fire- arms.Opponents, such as Jacob Sullum, managing editor of Reason,writing in National Review (Feb. 7, 1994), insisted that it "won't take a bite out of crime, but it will gnaw away at the right to keep and bear arms." Judging recent articles on the subject, there may be a third possibility:...
Patrick J. Maney, in Prologue (Spring 1994), National Archives, Washington,
D.C. 20408.
Should President Bill Clinton and his top aides have spent so much time and effort devising a detailed health-care reform bill? The legend- ary example of Franklin D. Roosevelt, brilliant mastermind of all that famous New Deal leg- islation, suggests that Clinton, an FDR ad- mirer, was doing the right thing. But the Roosevelt of legend, warns Maney, a Tulane University historian, is not the same as the Roosevelt...
Patrick J. Maney, in Prologue (Spring 1994), National Archives, Washington,
D.C. 20408.
Should President Bill Clinton and his top aides have spent so much time and effort devising a detailed health-care reform bill? The legend- ary example of Franklin D. Roosevelt, brilliant mastermind of all that famous New Deal leg- islation, suggests that Clinton, an FDR ad- mirer, was doing the right thing. But the Roosevelt of legend, warns Maney, a Tulane University historian, is not the same as the Roosevelt...
a hastily as- sembled league of colony/states against the world's most powerful nation." Soon after the British attacked a colonial arms cache at Con- cord, Massachusetts, in April 1775, delegates from the 13 colonies assembled in Philadel- phia. "In short order," Young writes, "they or- ganized themselves as a body, adopted rules of secrecy, digested reports of the battle and of British military activities elsewhere, and ad- journed into a 'committee of the whole on the state...
Ralph Peters, in Parameters (Summer 1994),U.S. Army War College, Carlisle Barracks, Carlisle, Pa. 17013-5050.
After decades of Cold War preparations, the U.S. Army today is finely tuned for battle with So- viet-style arnues. But the coming years are likely to bring a very different enemy, warns Peters, an anny major assigned to the Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence. Instead of disci- plined soldiers, he says, American troops will face brutal " 'warriors1-erratic primitives...
a late-20th-century warlord in Somalia, where its attempt to bring General Mohammed Farah Aidid to heel was an embarrassing failure. But the United Nations has experienced even more trouble in the former Yugoslavia, Peters maintains: "Imagining they can negotiate with governments to control warrior excesses, the United Nations and other well-intentioned orga- nizations plead with the men-in-suits in Belgrade, Zagreb, and Sarajevo to come to terms with one another. But the war in Bosnia and...
"What Is Wilsonianism?" David Fromkin, in World Policy Journal (Spring 1994), World Policy Institute, New School for Social Research, 65 Fifth Ave., Ste. 413, New York, N.Y. 10003.
Woodrow Wilson is unique among 20th-century American presidents in having spawned an 'ismU-and Wilsonianism is far more than just a memory from decades long past. President George Bush's quest for a New World Order, for example, was certainly Wilsonian in character. But what exactly is this Wilsonianism that...
leaders of allthe democracies. FDR and oth- ers addressed reasoned pleas to the dictators them- selves. The democracies practiced disarmament and convened world disarmament conferences. The League of Nations declared an embargo on supplies to fascist Italy in the [I9351 Abbysinian matter. Roosevelt organized an embargo on oil sup- plies to militarist, aggressive Japan. They exhausted thisfull bag of Wilsonian tricks, and none of them worked."
Wilsonianism's "intellectual bankruptcy"...
boomers and others.
the newborns' net payout. (The forecast for women is depressingly similar.) This represents a "significant generational imbalance in U.S. fis- cal policy," the economists say. To correct it, they warn, "a much more significant sacrifice cur- rent generations than politicians seem to realize" will be needed.
MITI Misfires
"Growth, Economies of Scale, and Targeting in Japan (1955-1990)" by Richard Beason and David E. Weinstein, Harvard Institute o...
boomers and others.
the newborns' net payout. (The forecast for women is depressingly similar.) This represents a "significant generational imbalance in U.S. fis- cal policy," the economists say. To correct it, they warn, "a much more significant sacrifice cur- rent generations than politicians seem to realize" will be needed.
MITI Misfires
"Growth, Economies of Scale, and Targeting in Japan (1955-1990)" by Richard Beason and David E. Weinstein, Harvard Institute o...