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THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION's grand design for foreign policy, spelled out last September in a document titled "The National Security Strategy," declares that the U.S. will exercise the responsibilities of the […]

A Cautious Patriotism: The American Churches and the Second World War. By Gerald L. Sittser. Chapel Hill, N.C.: The University of North Carolina Press, 1997. 317 pp. $39.95. Those of [...]

We investigate techniques for using deep neural networks to produce surrogate models for short term climate forecasts. A convolutional neural network is trained on 97 years of monthly precipitation output from the 1pctCO2 run (the CO2 concentration increases by 1% per year) simulated by the CanESM2 Earth System Model. The neural network clearly outperforms a persistence forecast and does not show substantially degraded performance even when the forecast length is extended to 120 months. The model is prone to underpredicting precipitation in areas characterized by intense precipitation events. Scheduled sampling (forcing the model to gradually use its own past predictions rather than ground truth) is essential for avoiding amplification of early forecasting errors. However, the use of scheduled sampling also necessitates preforecasting (generating forecasts prior to the first forecast date) to obtain adequate performance for the first few prediction time steps. We document the training procedures and hyperparameter optimization process for researchers who wish to extend the use of neural networks in developing surrogate models. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

RELIGION AND AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY, 1945-1960: THE SOUL Of CONTAINMENT. By William Inboden. New York: Cambridge University, 2008. Pp. xi + 356. $80. William Inboden's main title indicates the scope [...]

By Langdon Gilkey. Chicago: University of Chicago, 2001. xiii + 261. $35. Gilkey's study is a critical exposition and interpretation of the thought of one eminent theologian by another. It [...]

As a student in Voegelin's courses in political theory and comparative government at Louisiana State University 50 years ago, I was impressed by his extraordinarily thorough and insightful coverage of [...]

America is at war. This is a wartime national security strategy required by the grave challenge we face--the rise of terrorism fueled by an aggressive ideology of hatred and murder, [...]

By John W De Gruchy. Cambridge University Press, 291 pp., $59.95, paperback, $17.95. IN THE HALF century following World War II, democracy a political ideal has penetrated the consciousness of [...]

VICTORIA BARNETT'S review of Brian D. Lepard's Bethinking Humanitarian Intervention ('Rescue mission,' Sept. 6) overlooks an essential aspect of the concept itself (which I hope is treated in the book): [...]

THE LATE H. R. Niebuhr would have welcomed serious analytical criticism of Christ and Culture, but he would have preferred his critics to use his own open scholarly approach rather [...]