Foreign Policy Today
Condoleezza Rice on Big Power relations; Elizabeth Economy on China, post-Olympics.
For the week 8/11-8/15
As George Will said last Sunday, “This is about Russia reestablishing the Evil Empire.” Will added, in commenting on those in this country who aren’t familiar with Georgia, “No one had heard of Sarajevo until Aug. 1914 either.”
World War I and the Market
With the war between Russia and Georgia, some are drawing parallels to the origins of WW I.
Solzhenitsyn: Yesterday and Today
“The clock of communism has tolled its final hour. But the concrete structure has not completely collapsed. Instead of being liberated, we may be crushed beneath the rubble.”
For the week 8/4-8/8
Oil, housing, inflation, recession, bubbles, Russia and Georgia...and the Beijing Games.