Winter 2001
The Gulf War's Legacy of Illusions
In Essence
A Survey of Recent Articles
"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.
"Two Wars or One? Drugs, Guerrillas, and Colombia’s New Violencia" by William M. LeoGrande and Kenneth E. Sharpe, in World Policy Journal (Fall 2000), World Policy Institute, New School Univ., 66 Fifth Ave., Ninth Floor, New York, N.Y. 10011.
"The Rocky Shoals of International Law" by David B. Rivkin, Jr., and Lee A. Casey, in The National Interest (Winter 2000–01), 1112 16th St., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036; "The New Sovereigntists" by Peter J. Spiro, in Foreign Affairs (Nov.–Dec. 2000), 58 E. 68th St., New York, N.Y. 10021.
A Survey of Recent Articles
"Life without Treasury Securities" by Albert M. Wojnilower, in Business Economics (Oct. 2000), National Assn. for Business Economics, 1233 20th St., N.W., #505, Washington, D.C. 20036.
"Economics and the New Economy: The Invisible Hand Meets Creative Destruction" by Leonard I. Nakamura, in Business Review (July–Aug. 2000), Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, Dept. of Research and Statistics, 10 Independence Mall, Philadelphia, Pa. 19106–1574.
"The Emerging Philadelphia African-American Class Structure" by Elijah Anderson, in The Annals (Mar. 2000), American Academy of Political and Social Science, 3937 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Pa. 19104.
"Assessing Affirmative Action" by Harry Holzer and David Neumark, in Journal of Economic Literature (Sept. 2000), American Economic Assn., 2014 Broadway, Ste. 305, Nashville, Tenn. 37203, and "What Does Affirmative Action Do?" by the same authors, in Industrial and Labor Relations Review (Jan. 2000), Cornell Univ., Ithaca, N.Y. 14853–3901.
"A Nation of Organizers: The Institutional Origins of Civic Voluntarism in the United States" by Theda Skocpol, Marshall Ganz, and Ziad Munson, in American Political Science Review (Sept. 2000), 1527 New Hampshire Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036.
A Survey of Recent Articles
"Risky Business: Vividness, Availability, and the Media Paradox" by John Ruscio, in Skeptical Inquirer (Mar.–Apr. 2000), 944 Deer Dr., N.E., Albuquerque, N.M. 87122.
"The Failure of American Religious History" by D. G. Hart, in The Journal of the Historical Society (Spring 2000), 656 Beacon St., Mezzanine, Boston, Mass. 02215–2010.
"Shaping the Web: Why the Politics of Search Engines Matters" by Lucas D. Introna and Helen Nissenbaum, in The Information Society (July–Sept. 2000), Taylor & Francis, 325 Chestnut St., Ste. 800, Philadelphia, Pa. 19106.
"Ice, Mud Point to CO2 Role in Glacial Cycle" by Richard A. Kerr, in Science (Sept. 15, 2000), 1200 New York Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20005.
"Science and Self-Doubt" by Frederick K. Goodwin and Adrian R. Morrison, in Reason (Oct. 2000), 3415 S. Sepulveda Blvd., Ste. 400, Los Angeles, Calif. 90034–6064.
"Five Paths of Environmental Scholarship" Eric T. Freyfogle, in University of Illinois Law Review (Spring 2000), 504 E. Pennsylvania Ave., 244 Law Building, Champagne, Ill. 61820.
"Five Paths of Environmental Scholarship" by Eric T. Freyfogle, in University of Illinois Law Review (Spring 2000), 504 E. Pennsylvania Ave., 244 Law Building, Champagne, Ill. 61820.
"Waking the Dead: The Biography Boom in America" by Ron Chernow, in culturefront (Summer 2000), New York Council for the Humanities, 150 Broadway, Ste. 1700, New York, N.Y. 10038.
"The Artist and the Politician" by Jonathan Weinberg, in Art in America (Oct. 2000), 575 Broadway, New York, N.Y. 10012.
"Are the Troubles Over?" by Fintan O’Toole, in The New York Review of Books (Oct. 5, 2000), 1755 Broadway, 5th floor, New York, N.Y. 10019–3780.
"First Steps: AA and Alcoholism in Russia" by Patricia Critchlow, in Current History (Oct. 2000), 4225 Main St., Philadelphia, Pa. 19127.
"Czech Malaise and Europe" by Matthew Rhodes, in Problems of Post-Communism (Mar.–Apr. 2000), George Washington Univ., Inst. for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, 2013 G St., N.W., Ste. 401, Washington, D.C. 20052.
Reviews of new research at public agencies and private institutions
Book Reviews
THE MARTIAL ARTS OF RENAISSANCE EUROPE. By Sydney Anglo. Yale Univ. Press. 384 pp. $45
FOOD: A Culinary History from Antiquity to the Present. By Jean-Louis Flandrin and Massimo Montanari; transl. by Albert Sonnenfeld. Penguin. 592 pp. $18
THE CAMBRIDGE WORLD HISTORY OF FOOD. Edited by Kenneth F. Kiple and Kriemhild Conée Ornelas. Cambridge Univ. Press. 2 vols. 1958 pp. $150
BEST FOOD WRITING 2000.
Edited by Holly Hughes. Marlow & Co. 348 pp. $14.95
THE TASTE OF AMERICA.
By John L. and Karen Hess. Univ. of Illinois Press. 390 pp. $18.95
MARGARET FULLER, CRITIC: Writings from the New-York Tribune, 1844–1846.
Edited by Judith Mattson Bean and Joel Myerson. Columbia Univ. Press. 491pp. plus CD-ROM. $75
"MY HEART IS A LARGE KINGDOM": Selected Letters of Margaret Fuller.
Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Cornell Univ. Press. 368 pp. $29.95
MARGARET FULLER’S CULTURAL CRITIQUE: Her Age and Legacy.
Edited by Fritz Fleischmann. Peter Lang. 296 pp. $55.95
By Richard Holmes. Pantheon. 420 pp. $30
THE ROYAL ROAD TO ROMANCE. By Richard Halliburton. Travelers’ Tales, Inc. 305 pp. $14.95
FRESH AIR FIEND. By Paul Theroux. Houghton Mifflin. 466 pp. $27
By Malcolm Goldstein. Oxford Univ. Press. 370 pp. $30
By Albert Glinsky. Univ. of Illinois Press. 403 pp. $34.95
By Walter Gratzer. Oxford Univ. Press. 328 pp. $27.50
By Witold Rybczynski. Scribner. 173 pp. $22
THE DRAMA OF EVERYDAY LIFE. By Karl E. Scheibe. Harvard Univ. Press. 281 pp. $24.95
LAW IN BRIEF ENCOUNTERS. By W. Michael Reisman. Yale Univ. Press. 225 pp. $27.50
BRAND.NEW. Edited by Jane Pavitt. Princeton Univ. Press. 224 pp. $49.50
By Tom Martinson. Carroll & Graf. 288 pp. $26
THE CHINESE. By Jasper Becker. Free Press. 464 pp. $27.50
By Robert G. Kaufman. Univ. of Washington Press. 548 pp. $30
THE DARK VALLEY: A Panorama of the 1930s. By Piers Brendon. Knopf. 795 pp. $35.00
THE BOOK OF MIRACLES: The Meaning of the Miracle Stories in Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam. By Kenneth L. Woodward. Simon and Schuster. 429 pp. $28.
Essays
Reflections on the Persian Gulf War from an officer who served in Operation Desert Storm.
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.
