Washington's Response to the AIDS Epidemic: The Ryan White CARE Act

Passage of the Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS Resources Emergency (CARE) Act of 1990 followed a form familiar to students of policymaking in the American intergovernmental system: the provision of significant federal financing for policy initiatives located primarily at the state and local levels. The successes and failures of the Act, including its 1996 reauthorization, suggest both the strengths and the limitations of that design. This paper examines the structure of the Act as a vehicle for the federal government to fund AIDS service delivery at the state and local levels and the intergovernmental consequences of allocation policies associated with the Act. It concludes that perennial problems of equity and access cannot be resolved by the delegation of responsibility for significant policy or funding decisions to localities; rather, questions about the role of the federal government in overcoming intralocal and interlocal disparities remain to be addressed.     

Francis Hutcheson on Luxury and Intemperance: The Mandeville Threat

This paper looks at two figures in the modern, European, eighteenth-century debate on luxury. It claims to better understand the differences between Francis Hutcheson and Bernard Mandeville by exploring how Hutcheson treated the topic of luxury as a distinction between two desires, thus differing from Mandeville's concept of luxury, and a concept of temperance based on moral sense. It explores why Hutcheson believed that luxury was a moral, social and political issue and particularly why he considered Mandeville the embodiment of a threat that went beyond simple considerations of the content of The Fable of the Bees to touch on reflections on the equilibrium of a social and political system. It aims to show how the psychological and the moral dimension were connected to Hutcheson's political theory and how luxury was one of the key points of this connection.     

寂静岭上:碛口故事

碛口之名,最早见于《隋书》,是山西面对匈奴的防御要塞。乾隆年间,碛口则是有名的"晋商西大门,黄河大码头"。时至今日,山西碛口镇长在被黄河造就的黄土高坡上,受着繁荣的晋商经济辐射,这里的人们也有了新的生活。摄影师李双喜在山西碛口李家山拍摄到一组图片,借着窑洞、黄土和城墙,记录下历史的脚步,和这里万年未变的黄河交响乐。     

The Silent Missiles of Guadalcanal: Magic as Rhetoric in the Sandline Controversy

In February of 1997, Sir Julius Chan, then Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea, hired mercenaries from the Sandline Corporation to help fight the Bougainville Revolutionary Army. This act would create a distinct controversy in PNG, with the firing of the head of the PNGDF, General Singirok, a threatened coup d'etat, followed by public protests in Port Moresby and the eventual resignation of Chan. While these events were taking place, I was conducting field work in neighbouring Solomon Islands, specifically in Guadalcanal. The Vaturanga, among whom I lived during this period, took an especial interest in this controversy. They even believed that they themselves were playing a part in it, through forms of magic or sorcery, known locally as riana pupuku and poke sosolo. Guadalcanal has been renowned for its sorcery for many decades. But with modernization and its attendant institutions and patterns, these and other forms of magic have been reinterpreted by the Vaturanga and used as a sort of commentary about the economic, social and political changes they have experienced. This work explores the transnational aspects of the Sandline Controversy from the perspective of Guadalcanal Islanders and probes how this consciousness would play a role in the emergence of conflict in Guadalacanal eighteen months later.     

奇迹迪拜 隐蔽在沙漠中的热带雨林

迪拜是一座在沙漠上建造起来的城市,在这里你能发现它的无限可能,这就是一座善于创造奇迹的城市,沙漠上缺什么它就能给你造出什么,比如众所周知的沙漠上建造起世界上最高的大楼,沙漠上建造的世界上最大的花园,沙漠上建造起最大的音乐喷泉等等。同样在沙漠上,它也创造了一个生态系统完备的热带雨林。     

深埋在老城墙的岁月

天气渐冷的时候，离我家不远的北门坡口突然堆积了些建筑材料，高大的广告牌上这样解释：这里将在2008年7月前，矗立起一座城门楼，也就是说，将复原西宁城600年前的北门城楼。