From TAC, One-Child Foreign Policy: Declining birth rates will result in smaller armies, but fewer wars won’t necessarily mean a safer world; and can we win the ideological war? America has ideals; bin Laden has goals. A Values-Based Foreign Policy in a Dangerous World: An interview with Anne-Marie Slaughter; and Jean Bethke Elshtain on defending American values at home and abroad. A review of Security First: For a Muscular, Moral Foreign Policy by Amitai Etzioni. The Other Path of Neoconservatism: A review of Francis Fukuyama's America at the Crossroads: Democracy, Power, and the Neoconservative Legacy. A review of World War IV: The Long Struggle Against Islamofascism by Norman Podhoretz (and more and more). Is America on course to fall like Rome? Comptroller General of the United States David M. Walker wants to know. Bet on America: Forget the doom and gloom. In 50 years, the US will still be No. 1.
Daniel Greenwood (Utah): Should Corporations Have First Amendment Rights? The Border Boondoggle: Once again, companies are cashing on perceived threats to America. You will not believe how low the War Profiteers have gone: In Iraq, private contractors are guaranteed huge profits no matter how badly they fuck things up. Companies Behaving Badly: The sad story of a U.S. Firm's Colombia mine. In search of the good company: The debate about the social responsibilities of companies is heating up again. Take My Company, Please! The desperate corporations that will do anything to unload unwanted subsidiaries. Past rites: How companies can benefit from looking backwards as well as forwards. From The New Yorker, James Surowiecki on Profits of Doom: When Wall Street needs bad news. Oh! What a lovely crunch: Rumours of the death of research have been exaggerated.
From TLS, Richard Dawkins reviews God is Not Great: The case against religion by Christopher Hitchens. A review of Darwin's Angel: An Angelic Riposte to the God Delusion by John Cornwell. An excerpt from In God We Doubt: Confessions of an Angry Agnostic by John Humphrys. A review of God Needs No Passport: Immigrants and the Changing American Religious Landscape by Peggy Levitt. Jerry Falwell was right: A review of God's Judgments: Interpreting History and the Christian Faith by Steven J. Keillor. Memories of a massacre 150 years ago, which saw militia butcher 120 settlers, still colour America's view of Mormons. Onward, Secular Soldiers: Memo to candidates: There are more atheists, agnostics and skeptics out there than you think. How about sending us some love?
