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Current Issue
The Wealth Explosion (
Winter
2007 issue)
Off the Road
by James Morris
Humans have been on the move since Adam and Eve were expelled from Eden. The advent of frequent flyer miles may signal that travel has finally run its course.
Turkey Faces West
by Soli Özel
Will the European Union’s recent rebuff deter Turkey from the path of Westernization charted by its Islamist government?
America's Design for Tolerance
by Christopher Clausen
For more than 200 years, the United States has endured as one nation under God by keeping that deity as vague as possible.
THE WEALTH EXPLOSION
From celebrity billionaires who host their own television shows to mere millionaires who quietly park their Lexuses in expensive subdivisions, evidence abounds of an extraordinary upwelling of wealth. But there is bad news too.
Lux Populi | By James Twitchell
The New Yacht Club | By Steven Lagerfeld
Big Philanthropy | By Leslie Lenkowksy
ONE IRAQ OR THREE?
Modern Iraq was created by the British from three fragments of the Ottoman Empire. Does recent history suggest that they should now go their separate ways?
Lines in the Sand | By F. S. Naiden
Other People's Maps | By Reidar Visser
Findings
Wiring the Vote
Faces of Khan
It's a Bond World
Gaming the Market
In Essence
Our survey of articles from leading periodicals and scholarly journals:
The Flavors of Anti-Americanism
Primogeniture Unmasked
Bulgaria's Universal Buffoon
The Lagging Continent, and more....
Current Books
Philip Gold on America's all-volunteer military under fire
Grant Alden on Nashville music's minor figures, and more
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In Essence
Selections from our review of notable articles
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Contagious Crime
Researchers investigating the "broken windows theory" of crime control found that people are twice as likely to steal from a graffiti-covered mailbox as from one that's pristine.
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The Research Boomerang
Doubling the budget of the National Institutes of Health during the Clinton and Bush administrations has had the curious effect of leading to less biomedical research.
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The Sickening State
The most optimistic national estimates
show Russia’s population falling to 136 million in 2020, down from 141 million today. Life expectancy in Russia is among the lowest in the developed world.
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Headscarf Politics
Why would France waste resources on such an economically and politically marginal issue as banning headscarves in schools?
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A Second Surge?
The wisdom of employing an Iraq-like surge in Afghanistan.
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The Local Government Colossus
State governments think it makes sense to consolidate local governing bodies, but at the local level the benefits seem abstract and largely unproven.
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The Clueless Voter
Some political scientists have called for compulsory voting to force citizens to participate in the electoral process. It won't work.
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Spice and Status
New research reveals that spice was not used in medieval times to mask the taste of rancid meat, but rather to infuse good meat with the sweet-sour flavor that was the epitome of the fashionable cooking of the era.
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