War and Foreign Policy
The Private Production of Defense
The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives, by Zbigniew Brzezinski
Professor Brzezinski displays in this book an inordinate fondness for intellectual games. A minor and forgivable weakness, you might think.
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.
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
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.