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![]() National Observer Home > No. 82 (March - May 2010) > Contents ARTICLES How the rise of China as a "successful dictatorship" could affect us all The twenty-first century will witness a titanic struggle between democracy and dictatorship, warns Professor Dong Li. The story of dhimmi (non-Muslim) communities under Islamic rule is a sad history of dispossession and decline, writes Dr Mark Durie in this extract from his internationally-acclaimed new book, The Third Choice: Islam, Dhimmitude and Freedom. We who created the Western way of war are very reluctant to resort to it due to post-modern cynicism, while those who didn’t create it are very eager to apply it due to pre-modern zealotry, writes Victor Davis Hanson. BOOK REVIEW Shaun A. Casey, The Making of a Catholic President: Kennedy vs. Nixon 1960. Reviewed by R.J. Stove. Jamie Glazov, United in Hate: The Left’s Romance with Tyranny and Terror. Reviewed by Bill Muehlenberg. Barbara Ehrenreich, Smile or Die: How Positive Thinking Fooled America and the World. Reviewed by R.J. Stove. National Observer , Australia, No. 82 (March - May 2010) |
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