Winter 2012
Lessons of the Great Depression
In Essence
THE SOURCE: “A Leader Without Followers? The Growing Divergence Between the Regional and Global Performance of Brazilian Foreign Policy” by Andrés Malamud, in Latin American Politics and Society, Fall 2011.
THE SOURCE: “Do Working Men Rebel? Insurgency and Unemployment in Afghanistan, Iraq, and the Philippines” by Eli Berman, Michael Callen, Joseph H. Felter, and Jacob N. Shapiro, in Journal of Conflict Resolution, Aug. 2011.
THE SOURCE: “China’s Changing Guanxi Capitalism: Private Entrepreneurs Between Leninist Control and Relentless Accumulation” by Christopher A. McNally, in Business and Politics, Aug. 2011.
THE SOURCE: “The Church of Labor” by Lew Daly, in Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, Fall 2011.
THE SOURCE: “Climate on Cable: The Nature and Impact of Global Warming Coverage on Fox News, CNN, and MSNBC” by Lauren Feldman, Edward W. Maibach, Connie Roser-Renouf, and Anthony Leiserowitz, in The International Journal of Press/Politics, Nov. 2, 2011 (online).
THE SOURCE: “Big Criticism” by Evan Kindley, in Critical Inquiry, Autumn 2011.
THE SOURCE: “Cyber War Will Not Take Place” by Thomas Rid, in Journal of Strategic Studies, Feb. 2012.
THE SOURCE: “Free Trade, Sovereignty, and Slavery: Toward an Economic Interpretation of American Independence” by Staughton Lynd and David Waldstreicher, in William and Mary Quarterly, Oct. 2011.
THE SOURCE: “The End of the American Era” by Stephen M. Walt, in The National Interest, Nov.–Dec. 2011.
THE SOURCE: “Dropped Medical Malpractice Claims: Their Surprising Frequency, Apparent Causes, and Potential Remedies” by Dwight Golann, in Health Affairs, July 2011.
THE SOURCE: “Morocco: In the Kingdom of Illusions” by Martine Gozlan, in World Policy Journal, Fall 2011.
THE SOURCE: “The Muslim-American Muddle” by Peter Skerry, in National Affairs, Fall 2011.
THE SOURCE: “The American Political Parties Are Breaking Down” by Walter Russell Mead, in Via Meadia (blog), Oct. 31, 2011.
THE SOURCE: “Post-Mortem Imaging as an Alternative to Autopsy in the Diagnosis of Adult Deaths: A Validation Study” by Ian S. D. Roberts, Rachel E. Benamore, Emyr W. Benbow, Stephen H. Lee, Jonathan N. Harris, Alan Jackson, Susan Mallett, Tufail Patankar, Charles Peebles, Carl Roobottom, and Zoe C. Traill, in The Lancet, Nov. 22, 2011 (online).
THE SOURCE: “The Mirage” by Sean Wilentz, in The New Republic, Nov. 17, 2011.
THE SOURCE: “Explaining Mass Support for Agricultural Protectionism: Evidence From a Survey Experiment During the Global Recession” by Megumi Naoi and Ikuo Kume, in International Organization, Fall 2011.
THE SOURCE: “The Trouble With Retractions” by Richard Van Noorden, in Nature, Oct. 6, 2011.
THE SOURCE: “Internal Migration in the United States” by Raven Molloy, Christopher L. Smith, and Abigail Wozniak, in Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 2011.
THE SOURCE: “Should the United States Abandon Taiwan?” by Nancy Bernkopf Tucker and Bonnie Glaser, in The Washington Quarterly, Fall 2011.
THE SOURCE: “Understanding the Rise of Talk Radio” by Jeffrey M. Berry and Sarah Sobieraj, in PS: Political Science & Politics, Oct. 2011.
THE SOURCE: “Counterrevolution in Kiev” by Rajan Menon and Alexander J. Motyl, in Foreign Affairs, Nov.–Dec. 2011.
THE SOURCE: “A One-Man Market” by Bryan Appleyard, in Intelligent Life, Nov.–Dec. 2011.
THE SOURCE: “To Order the Minds of Scholars: The Discourse of the Peace of Westphalia in International Relations Literature” by Sebastian Schmidt, in International Studies Quarterly, Sept. 2011.
THE SOURCE: “Time for Another Harding?” by Ronald Radosh and Allis Radosh, in The Weekly Standard, Oct. 24, 2011.
THE SOURCE: “That Ban(e) of Indian Music: Hearing Politics in the Harmonium” by Matt Rahaim, in The Journal of Asian Studies, Aug. 2011.
Book Reviews
BLUE NIGHTS
By Joan Didion.
Knopf. 188p. $25
GOD’S JURY:
The Inquisition and the Making of the Modern World.
By Cullen Murphy.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 310 pp. $27
THE HEIGHTS:
Anatomy of a Skyscraper.
By Kate Ascher.
Penguin Press. 207 pp. $35
THE NORTH AMERICAN IDEA:
A Vision of a Continental Future.
By Robert A. Pastor.
Oxford Univ. Press. 264 pp. $24.95
ROGER WILLIAMS AND THE CREATION OF THE AMERICAN SOUL:
Church, State, and the Birth of Liberty.
By John M. Barry.
Viking. 464 pp. $35.
GEORGE F. KENNAN:
An American Life.
By John Lewis Gaddis.
Penguin Press. 784 pp. $39.95
UNPRECEDENTED POWER:
Jesse Jones, Capitalism, and the Common Good.
By Steven Fenberg.
Texas A&M Univ. Press. 611 pp. $35
ROME:
A Cultural, Visual, and Personal History.
By Robert Hughes.
Knopf. 498 pp. $35
SMALL, GRITTY, AND GREEN:
The Promise of America's Smaller Industrial Cities in a Low-Carbon World.
By Catherine Tumber.
MIT Press. 211 pp. $24.95
NEW:
Understanding Our Need for Novelty and Change.
By Winifred Gallagher.
Penguin Press. 259 pp. $25.95
THE LETTERS OF ERNEST HEMINGWAY:
Volume 1, 1907-1922.
Edited by Sandra Spanier and Robert W. Trogdon.
Cambridge Univ. Press. 431 pp. $40
A THOUSAND LIVES:
The Untold Story of Hope, Deception, and Survival at Jonestown.
By Julia Scheeres.
Free Press. 307 pp. $26
Essays
A peculiar experiment inspired by the Enlightenment sheds light on the age-old question of what makes us human.
The German philosopher whose ideas would leave an indelible mark on Europe was embraced by Americans eager to see in him a reflection of their own image.
Pakistan’s remote and poorly understood tribal region has emerged as key to the future of both Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Words may be failing economists and others who characterize the economic downturn that began in 2008 as “the Great Recession.” “Mini-Depression” may be more like it.
When wages stagnate and inequality rises, Americans try to borrow their way toward the American dream. Inevitably, the bubble bursts. But we can learn from the lessons of 1929.
The role of the welfare state in today’s economic crisis recalls the part played by the gold standard in the calamitous 1930s.
THE SOURCE: “Tocqueville and America” by James Q. Wilson, in The Claremont Review of Books, Spring 2012.
