War and Foreign Policy
From Wealth to Power, by Fareed Zakaria
Mr. Zakaria finds a paradox at the heart of American foreign policy in the latter part of the nineteenth century.
What Is Terror?
The U.S. is fudging its rationale for bombing a medicine plant in Sudan.
Private Ryan
An essay by Paul Fussell explains the meaning of Spielberg's new film on war.
Drawing Life: Surviving the Unabomber, by David Gelernter
Much of this moving book lies outside the scope of The Mises Review. The Unabomber selected Mr. Gelernter as a target; and in June 1993, a package exploded in his office at Yale University.
The Reluctant Sheriff: The United States After the Cold War, by Richard Haass
You don't have to be a believer in the conspiracy theory of history to feel suspicious about the provenance of Mr. Haass's book. Its publisher is the Council on Foreign Relations, long familiar to "right-wing extremists" as the center of the foreign policy
Evil of Sanctions, The
Among the conventional weapons in the arsenal of the modern Warfare State, none is crueler or more indiscriminate than economic sanctions. While a bomb, missile, or other military ordnance can devastate an entire neighborhood in a moment, the slow death of economic strangulation can so degrade an entire people that they are reduced to a pre-civilizational state, modern savages living at a subsistence level.
Presidential Power
The centralized, executive state makes corruption at the top a political inevitability.
Freedom Betrayed, by Michael Ledeen
Freedom Betrayed is a spirited polemic in support of a contradictory thesis.