Sowell (Hoover Institution, Stanford U.) presents 76 essays that originally appeared in his syndicated column. In the essays Sowell pushes a right-wing agenda in the areas of law, economics, politics,
Sowell (a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford U.) collects some 150 examples of his nationally syndicated column in which he offers his culturally conservative and economically l'aissez
In August 2005, Israel closed its Gaza settlements and withdrew some 8,000 Jews who had lived there. In Israel's Unilateralism award-winning journalist Robert Zelnick examines Israel's disengagement f
The mortal danger of nuclear weapons is unique in its terrifying potential for devastation on an unprecedented and unimaginable scale. In this book, Sidney D. Drell and James E. Goodby—each with mor
This memoir of "an ordinary life played out in extraordinary times" presents the views of an aging academic on a century of political, technological and social progress unlike any other. Drawing on ol
Education in the United States has at last ended its failed experiment with separating the intellectual from the moral—and schools from K–12 to college campuses are increasingly paying attention to
Wolf (a senior research fellow at the Hoover Institution) collects 25 of his essays that have appeared in national and international newspapers and journals discussing a range of economic, political,
Having undergone a transition from military authoritarian rule in 1987, Korea quickly became the most powerful democracy in East Asia other than Japan. But the onset of a major economic crisis revea
Sharing the basic assumption that the nature of political institutions is the primary shaper of the growth trajectories of countries' economies, these seven contributions apply historical, economic, a
Since September 11, 2001, the attitudes of Europeans toward the United States have grown increasingly more negative. For many in Europe, the terrorist attack on New York City was seen as evidence of
When the Soviet Union fell in 1991, many speculated about the value of Russia's historical experience with market-oriented reform. Liberal Reform in an Illiberal Regime tells how, in 1906, on the ev
This collection graphically demonstrates the native African's struggle for peace, freedom, and equality in his native land. The Treason Trial, held from 1956 to 1961, the Mandela Trial of 1962, and
This work, which takes Garrett Hardin's essay "The Tragedy of the Commons" (Science, 1968) as its reference point, examines aspects of the public realm—whether much or little of it ought to be part
Essays examine the practical steps necessary to address the current security challenges of nuclear weapons and move toward the elimination of all nuclear weapons.
The secret world of the Soviet Union revealedThe opening of the once-secret Soviet state and party archives in the early 1990s proved to be an event of exceptional significance. When Western scholars
Concerned over the transatlantic rift highlighted by the European response to the US plan to attack Iraq, Bark (a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution) locates the origins of the rift in various es
HOW CAN WE BEGIN TO CONTROL THE RISING COSTS OF HEALTH CARE?When calculated on a per capita basis, the United States has the costliest health care system in the world. The debate rages on over how to
