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Author: Felix Sommermann

  1. The Future of Tradition by Lee Harris: 7 Ideas Behind the Essay In "The Future of Tradition" (Policy Review, 2005), Lee Harris argued that traditions live as felt codes of behavior passed on by families and… Essay guide · 6 min
  2. The Terrorism to Come: Walter Laqueur on the Next Threat In 2004 Walter Laqueur argued that poverty does not explain terrorism, that settling local conflicts would not stop global jihadism, and that Europe was… Essay guide · 5 min
  3. The Media and Medievalism: Robert Kaplan on Press Power Robert D. Kaplan argued in 2004 that the global news media had become an unelected, unaccountable power, comparable to the medieval church, that judges… Essay guide · 6 min
  4. The Mismeasure of Poverty: How Nicholas Eberstadt Tested the Official Poverty Measure In a 2006 Policy Review essay, Nicholas Eberstadt argued that the official U.S. poverty rate no longer measures the fixed level of hardship it… Essay guide · 5 min
  5. Conflict of Interest Disclosure and Its Limits: Robert Hahn’s Essay In a 2002 Policy Review essay, economist Robert W. Hahn argued that 'full disclosure' of conflicts of interest is hard to define, is applied… Essay guide · 6 min
  6. Demographics and the Culture War: Stanley Kurtz on Fertility and Politics In 2005 Stanley Kurtz argued that falling birth rates would strain the welfare state and force cultural change. He saw two possible paths: a… Essay guide · 6 min
  7. Power and Population in Asia: Nicholas Eberstadt’s 2004 Essay, Step by Step Nicholas Eberstadt argued in 2004 that population shapes power in Asia less through raw size than through what happens inside countries: aging, health and… Essay guide · 6 min
  8. Why Globalization Didn’t Rescue Russia: Paul Saunders’s 2001 Essay Paul J. Saunders argued in 2001 that Washington's faith in globalization led it to expect too much from post-Soviet Russia: public pressure for change… Essay guide · 6 min
  9. The Intellectual Origins of America-Bashing: Lee Harris’s Argument Explained Lee Harris argued in 2002 that the most radical anti-Americanism grew out of a revision of Marxism: when Western workers prospered, theorists such as… Essay guide · 6 min
  10. Neoconservatism: How Disillusioned Liberals Changed American Conservatism Neoconservatism is an American political current that combines skepticism about ambitious social programs with a confident, often interventionist foreign policy aimed at defending and… Ideas · 6 min