Featured Articles — October 2, 2008

October 2, 2008 by Jonathan Movroydis | Filed Under Featured Articles 

Interesting Takes from Home and Abroad:

The Tax Issue Still Resonates By Karl Rove
Conventional wisdom says tax cuts have lost their political power. “Cutting taxes has run its course,” “America’s great fever for lower taxes . . . has cooled,” and “Republicans relied too easily on tax cuts,” are among the assertions I’ve seen recently from different pundits.

America’s Nervous Breakdown – and the World’s By Victor Davis Hanson
Ancient thinkers from Thucydides to Cicero insisted that money was the real source of military power and national influence. We’ve been reminded of that classical wisdom these last three weeks.

The US democratic-capitalist model is on trial. No schadenfreude, please By Timothy Garton Ash
This week the demands of American democracy clashed with those of American capitalism. And China’s premier smiled.

The World Shouldn’t Fear the Collapse of North Korea By John R. Bolton and Nicholas Eberstadt
Reunifying the peninsula will only grow harder the longer the regime survives.

Save the Fat Cats By Nicholas D. Kristof
In the early 1990s, when I was a foreign correspondent looking for my next overseas posting with The Times, I sought Japan. At the time, Tokyo was an awe-inspiring economic titan, arguably the most important capital outside the United States.

Maddening for Madisonians By Quin Hillyer
Oh, where to begin? How does one construct an essay when one sees the national government rapidly turning this country into a nation with which one is just not familiar? I mean, this isn’t America anymore…. Is it? Could it possibly be? Is this the nation with a limited government designed by James Madison and his brilliant cohorts?

The ‘Bradley effect’ in 2008 By Pat Morrison
Will this year’s election bring us the ‘Obama effect’?

Can Buffett Rescue the Market? By Ben Steverman
The billionaire investor’s forays into GE and Goldman may restore some calm, but he can’t turn the tide of the financial crisis all by himself.

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