The enormous technological ingenuity of China in the first millennium CE is sketchily alluded to, but without any clear idea of how China may have conceptualized the principles that its technology implemented. [...] the mathematical learning of Chinese adepts - deeper and more incisive than is generally recognized - is simply ignored.
The United States displays the crucial traits - adaptability, flexibility, responsiveness - and possesses the fundamental tools - human and material resources, entrepreneurship, stable political institutions - that together have allowed, and will in the future allow, the nation to overcome both the inadequacies of its leaders and the foibles of its citizens. [...] for most Americans the focus of urban life will shift to "cities of aspiration," those that offer economic and social opportunities to growing families (including affordable housing and living expenses).
What's done here," NPS spokesman Alan Richmond says, "can't be duplicated anywhere élse in the world. Were it not for friendly outreach efforts like these, the school's proximity to the ears of military and foreign policy leaders, its secretive work in weapons research and its discreet local profile ("It's more in the news nationally- BBC, ABC, NBC, the New York Times- than it is locally," says Richmond) might conjure unsettling scenes from the War Room of Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove. But fact is more banal than fiction. And morereassuring. The school is surprisingly open to arguments against war and military diplomacy, as evidenced by NPS associate professor of economics and Hoover Institution fellow David R. Henderson, who in a lecture before admirals in June 2002 "made the ca...
, by Joel Kotkin, is reviewed.
Yesterday was President Barack Obama's 100th day in office. Few men have entered the office of the presidency under anything like the dire circumstances that the nation faces today. Only Lincoln at the time of the Civil War and F.D.R. during the Great Depression of the 1930's confronted national crises that exceed the problems - foreign and domestic - that President Obama has faced from his first day in office. The President's first order of business is the sinking economy, which has had a multiplier effect - job losses, loss of health insurance coverage, housing foreclosures and homelessness, and threats of hunger. We know from our research at the Community Service Society and from our annual survey, "The Unheard Third," that low-income New Yorkers are suffering multiple hardships duri...
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