The New York Review of Books

The ‘Daily Me’

April 25, 2002

He’s Got Mail

March 14, 2002

republic.com by Cass Sunstein

Is the Internet Good for Democracy? the Boston Review

Internet Illusions

November 16, 2000

Vote.com by Dick Morris

Rich Media, Poor Democracy: Communication Politics in Dubious Times revised edition by Robert W. McChesney

Prometheus Wired: The Hope for Democracy in the Age of Network Technology by Darin Barney

You Say You Want a Revolution: A Story of Information Age Politics by Reed E. Hundt

Billion-Dollar Babies

December 16, 1999

The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story by Michael Lewis

High Stakes, No Prisoners: A Winner’s Tale of Greed and Glory in the Internet Wars by Charles H. Ferguson

Hurry Up Please It’s Time

September 23, 1999

Investigating the Impact of the Year 2000 Problem by 105th Congress Special Committee on the Y2K Technology Problem

The Simple Living Journal’s Y2K Preparation Guide: 110 Ways to Create a Sustainable Life—Crisis or Not by Janet Luhrs, by Cris Evatt

Y2K: The Millennium Bug by Tiggre Don L.

Y2K: The Millennium Crisis by Bradford Morgan

Get Rich with Y2K: How to Cash in on the Financial Crisis in the Year 2000 by Porter Steven L.

Time Bomb 2000: What the Year 2000 Computer CrisisMeans to You! by Yourdon Edward, by Yourdon Jennifer

It Was Aircraft

March 4, 1999

Fear of Flying

January 14, 1999

Inside the Sky: A Meditation on Flight by William Langewiesche

Stick and Rudder: An Explanation of the Art of Flying by Wolfgang Langewiesche

Nall Report: Accident Trends and Factors for 1996 by 1997 Air Safety Foundation, Airline Owners and Pilots Association

‘The Trouble with Computers’

May 23, 1996

Caught in the Web

February 15, 1996

The Road Ahead by Bill Gates, with Nathan Myhrvold, by Peter Rinearson

Microserfs by Douglas Coupland

Silicon Snake Oil: Second Thoughts on the Information Highway by Clifford Stoll

The Trouble with Computers: Usefulness, Usability, and Productivity by Thomas K. Landauer

I Sing the Body Electronic: A Year with Microsoft on the Multimedia Frontier by Fred Moody

Startup: A Silicon Valley Adventure Story by Jerry Kaplan

Microsoft Secrets: How the World’s Most Powerful Software Company Creates Technology, Shapes Markets, and Manages People by Michael A. Cusumano, by Richard W. Selby

Road Warriors: Dreams and Nightmares Along the Information Highway by Daniel Burstein, by David Kline

Gates: How Microsoft’s Mogul Reinvented an Industry—and Made Himself the Richest Man in America by Stephen Manes, by Paul Andrews

The Republican Promise

January 12, 1995

Contract With America

On the Edge: The Clinton Presidency by Drew Elizabeth

Arrogant Capital: Washington, Wall Street, and the Frustration of American Politics by Kevin Phillips

The Politics of the High-Wage Path: The Challenge Facing Democrats by Ruy A. Teixeira

The Computer Wars

March 24, 1994

Gates: How Microsoft’s Mogul Reinvented an Industry and Made Himself the Richest Man in America by Stephen Manes, by Paul Andrews

Steve Jobs and the NeXT Big Thing by Randall E. Stross

Game Over: How Nintendo Zapped an American Industry, Captured Your Dollars, and Enslaved Your Children by David Sheff

Computer Wars: How the West Can Win in a Post-IBM World by Charles H. Ferguson, by Charles R. Morris

Big Blues: The Unmaking of IBM by Paul Carroll

What Can Save the Economy?

April 23, 1992

Head to Head: The Coming Economic Battle Among Japan, Europe, and America by Lester Thurow

State of the Union Address and ‘Highlights of the President’s Growth Agenda’ by George Bush

A Call to Economic Arms: Forging a New American Mandate by Paul E. Tsongas

A Plan for America’s Future by Bill Clinton

The Romance with Mexico

November 7, 1991

The New North American Order: A Win-Win Strategy for US-Mexico Trade by Clyde V. Prestowitz Jr., by Robert B. Cohen, with Peter A. Morici, by Alan Tonelson

The Low-Wage Challenge to Global Growth: The Labor Cost-Productivity Imbalance in Newly Industrialized Countries by Walter Russell Mead

US Jobs and the Mexico Trade Proposal by Jeff Faux, by William Spriggs

Fast Track, Fast Shuffle: The Economic Consequences of the Administration’s Proposed Trade Agreement with Mexico by Jeff Faux, by Richard Rothstein

The End of Laissez-Faire: National Purpose and the Global Economy after the Cold War by Robert Kuttner

‘Japan Vs. the West’

October 10, 1991

Is Japan the Enemy?

May 30, 1991

The Coming War with Japan by George Friedman, by Meredith LeBard

Japan Versus the West: Image and Reality by Endymion Wilkinson

The Rise of Modern Japan by W.G. Beasley

Japan’s Administrative Elite by B.C. Koh

Japan’s Expanding Role and Influence in the Asia-Pacific Region: Implications for US Interests and Policy by Richard P. Cronin

Deepening Economic Linkages in the Pacific Basin Region: Trade, Foreign Direct Investment, and Technology by Masaharu Hanazaki

White Paper on International Trade, 1990 by the Ministry of International Trade and Industry, Tokyo

Arming Our Allies: Cooperation and Competition in Defense Technology by the US Office of Technology Assessment

Thoughts on US-Japan Security and Economic Linkages in East Asia by Michael W. Chinworth

Kokusanka: FSX and Japan’s Search for Autonomous Defense Production by Michael J. Green

‘Agents of Influence’: An Exchange

May 16, 1991

‘The Japanese Power Game’: An Exchange

January 17, 1991

The Great Japanese Misunderstanding

November 8, 1990

Agents of Influence: How Japan’s Lobbyists in the United States Manipulate America’s Political and Economic System by Pat Choate

The Japanese Power Game: What It Means for America by William J. Holstein

The Middle Class

April 12, 1990

Wake Up, America!

March 1, 1990

Microcosm: The Quantum Revolution in Economics and Technology by George Gilder

Fear of Falling: The Inner Life of the Middle Class by Barbara Ehrenreich

The End of the American Century by Steven Schlossstein

The Real Japan

July 20, 1989

The Enigma of Japanese Power: People and Politics in a Stateless Nation by Karel van Wolferen

Trading Places: How We Allowed Japan to Take the Lead by Clyde V. Prestowitz Jr.

Rich Kids

October 27, 1988

Old Money: The Mythology of America’s Upper Class by Nelson Aldrich

R_x from RN

July 21, 1988

1999: Victory Without War by Richard Nixon

The Americans in Space

December 18, 1986

The Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age by Walter A. McDougall

Report to the President by the Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident

The Aerospace Plane: Technological Feasibility and Policy Implications Massachusetts Institute of Technology Report No.15 by Stephen W. Korthals-Altes

Washington’s New Celebrities: An Exchange

September 25, 1986

The New Celebrities of Washington

June 12, 1986

An Exchange on Automation

December 20, 1984

A Parable of Automation

September 27, 1984

Forces of Production: A Social History of Industrial Automation by David F. Noble

Computerized Manufacturing Automation: Employment, Education, and the Workplace US Congress, Office of Technology Assessment

Human Resource Implications of Robotics by H. Allan Hunt, by Timothy L. Hunt

The Reagan Variety Show

April 12, 1984

The Supply-Side Revolution: An Insider’s Account of Policymaking in Washington by Paul Craig Roberts

Presidential Economics: The Making of Economic Policy from Roosevelt to Reagan and Beyond by Herbert Stein

The Barbaric Counter-Revolution: Cause and Cure by W. W. Rostow

Reagan: The Fruits of Success

October 27, 1983

The Reagan Presidency: An Early Assessment edited by Fred I. Greenstein

Gambling with History: Ronald Reagan in the White House by Laurence I. Barrett

Reagan’s Ruling Class: Portraits of the President’s Top One Hundred Officials by Ronald Brownstein, by Nina Easton

For Old Times’ Sake

December 16, 1982

Keeping Faith: Memoirs of a President by Jimmy Carter

Crisis: The Last Year of the Carter Presidency by Hamilton Jordan

Practical Sense

June 24, 1982

The Past Has Another Pattern: Memoirs by George W. Ball

The Rise of Hyman Rickover

April 1, 1982

Rickover by Norman Polmar, by Thomas B. Allen

The Trap of Rearmament

December 17, 1981

The Baroque Arsenal by Mary Kaldor

Soviet Military Power by the US Department of Defense

The East-West Strategic Balance by T.B. Millar

The Great Defense Deception

May 28, 1981

The Defense Industry by Jacques S. Gansler

Defense Facts of Life by Franklin C. Spinney

Report of the Defense Science Board 1980 Summer Study Panel on Industrial Responsiveness Engineering, Department of Defense Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and

Politics and Force Levels: The Strategic Missile Program of the Kennedy Administration by Desmond Ball

Doubletalk: The Story of Salt I by Gerard Smith