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That same process of genetic tracing might have less benign consequences for the larger society. 22 THE REVOLUTION OF 1803 by Peter S. Onuf The Louisiana Purchase wasn’t just the largest real estate deal in U.S. history. It forever altered the way America sees itself. 30 CHINA’S PALACE OF MEMORY by Norman Kutcher China’s debate over whether to preserve or restore the ruined site of the great imperial palace complex of Yuanming Yuan shows how the Chinese are grappling with their past—and how they imagine their future. 40 THE TRANSATLANTIC ILLNESS by Samuel F. Wells, Jr. What is to be done about the unprecedented tensions between the United States and its European allies? 47 HOLY WARS Afshin Molavi • Roger Scruton • Mukul Kesavan • Hugh Heclo In a surprising number of societies around the world, pitched and sometimes bloody battles are being fought over the proper balance between religious and secular values in public life. The recent experiences of Iran, Europe, India, and America suggest that such a balance will remain elusive. departments 2 EDITOR’S COMMENT 109 CURRENT BOOKS David J. Garrow 3 CORRESPONDENCE on the Supreme Court 8 FINDINGS Andrew Barr on addictive drugs Literary Rockville Kael’s Clout Reviews by C. Michael Curtis, Menu R&D Randall Balmer, Alix Ohlin, Henry Hart, Preston Lerner, Robert Masello, 83 THE PERIODICAL OBSERVER Douglas Gomery, and others Justifying Preemptive War The Totalitarian Puzzle 128 PORTRAIT: 1903 cover: Hindu nationalists shouting anti-Muslim slogans in New Delhi. Photo by John McConnico/AP. Design by David Herbick. The views expressed herein are not necessarily those of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. USPS 346-670 | Volume XXVII, Number 1 | Printed in the U.S.A. Editor’s Comment n the past few months, the Wilson Center has been host to a procession of current and former world leaders, including United Nations secretary general IKofi Annan, President Bill Clinton, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, and, at a December conference marking the 10th anniversary of the North American Free Trade Agreement, the three national architects of the treaty, President George H. W. Bush, Canadian prime minister Brian Mulroney, and Mexican president Carlos Salinas de Gortari. It’s a testament to the Center’s reputation as a nonpartisan forum and institute for advanced research that the leaders chose to come here. But it’s also evidence of the welcome changes that have occurred in the physical setting of the Center since then-director Charles Blitzer engineered a move four years ago from two separate but equally cramped locations to spacious and attractive new quarters on Pennsylvania Avenue. Events of the scale and import we’ve seen recently could not have been accommodated in the past. Now they’re becoming business as usual. That’s a tribute to the leadership of former U.S. congressman Lee Hamilton, who has been director since 1999. Under his guidance, the Center has sharpened its focus on policy-relevant research, even as it has embraced new fields of inquiry. The premises that initially seemed so spacious are already crowded with busy staffers and dozens of visiting scholars. For the WQ and its readers, the high-energy Center serves up an intellectual banquet. In this issue, we have essays by the Center’s associate director, Samuel F. Wells, Jr., former Wilson Center public policy scholar Afshin Molavi, and political scientist Hugh Heclo, whose essay grew out of a Wilson Center conference presen- tation. 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Fax: (212) 265-0986. 2 Wilson Quarterly CorrespondenceCorrespondence Letters may be mailed to One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20004–3027, or sent via facsimile, to (202) 691-4036, or e-mail, to [email protected]. The writer’s telephone number and postal address should be included. For reasons of space, letters are usually edited for publication. Some letters are received in response to the editors’ requests for comment. flicts predate globalization by decades or Thinking Globally even centuries. Amy Chua’s article [“A World on the Perhaps most indefensible is Chua’s ethnic Edge,” WQ, Autumn ’02] was a welcome con- stereotyping. Her portrayal of Filipinos and tribution to the discussion of globalization. For Chinese in the Philippines is distorted in any many years, much has been said about the number of ways. One particularly egregious extreme difference in living standards and example is her description of the quarters of her resource consumption between the West and aunt’s male servants, horrifying to her because the underdeveloped countries.