Many economists hate to admit it, but todays economic turmoil shares some uncanny-or downright scary- similarities with the prelude to the great depression. Many policyrnakers seem to have unlearned the basic lesson of that calamity: boost demand in the face of an economic slowdown and reduce the volatility of capital flows. Rigid adherence to anti-inflationary policies will only deepen the crises in emerging markets.

America's addiction to middle Eastern oil forces dangerous foreign policy compromises, worsens global warming, and strengthens unreliable persian gulf countries. Instead, the United States should get its energy from biomass ethanol, a new fuel that can be roduced at home from almost any type of plant or even from agricultural waste.

Francis Fukuyama has it all wrong. War comes not from any genetic male tendency toward violence- there is none- but from social and cultural pressures. It certainly has nothing to do with chimp behavior. Besides, who says women are not as competitive as men? A world run by women would not be as different as Fukuyama thinks