online archive
12:00PM
JUL 20 2007
American government, ideology and the environment
A new issue of The New Leader is out, including William L. O’Neill reviewing 15 Stars: Eisenhower, MacArthur, Marshall: Three Generals Who Saved the American Century by Stanley Weintraub and Partners in Command: George Marshall and Dwight Eisenhower in War and Peace by Mark Perry. A review of The Pentagon: A History by Steve Vogel. The CIA often has shaped information to meet White House expectations: A review of Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA by Tim Weiner. From Harper's, meet the Pentagon’s New Spin Unit: Bush Administration hacks court bloggers, talk radio.
From Taki's Top Drawer, Paul Gottfried on the Neocons and the Left: Know Your Enemies; and more on The Kirk Wars. A review of What's Left? How Liberals Lost Their Way by Nick Cohen. What if they held a War of Ideas and nobody came? Jonathan Chait wants to know. A review of Putting Morality Back Into Politics by Richard D. Ryder.
The US should adopt the toughest possible fuel economy standards for motor vehicles and join a global framework for managing carbon dioxide emissions, according to a Bush administration-commissioned study of the energy industry, led by the former chairman of ExxonMobil. The End of Cheap Oil? The new cycle of resource nationalism is bad news. A review of Storm World: Hurricanes, Politics, and the Battle Over Global Warming by Chris Mooney (and an interview). A deadly challenge to the environment: There are more people alive today than ever before. What will the environmental costs be when we all die? From Plenty, a review of The World Without Us by Alan Weisman (and an interview, and another interview and more).
