The United Nations has made global public health a top priority. At April’s anti-AIDS summit in Abuja, Nigeria, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan spelled out what is needed in order to launch a serious attack against AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis: at least $7 billion per year. The initial $200 million that President George W. Bush […]
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Kissinger, In Deed
The Trial of Henry Kissinger, Christopher Hitchens. Verso, 160 pages, $22.00. From the way that Christopher Hitchens tears into bloated reputations, it’seasy to imagine that in another age he would have spent many a predawn hourhappily preparing to duel. Now he has flung his challenge at Henry Kissinger, aman who generally liked to use the […]
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Thinking about Thinking
The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America, Louis Menand. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 480 pages, $27.00. Not long ago the philosopher Daniel Dennett called Darwinism–the theory of evolution by means of natural selection–“the best idea ever.” It is certainly one of the most consequential. As an explanation of an enormous range of biological […]
