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F. Scott Kieff
F. Scott Kieff is the Ray and Louis Knowles Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution.

F. Scott Kieff elected to European Academy of Sciences and Arts

F. Scott Kieff, the Ray and Louis Knowles Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, member of the John and Jean De Nault Property Rights, Freedom, and Prosperity Task Force, and a professor at the George Washington University Law School in Washington, DC, was recently elected to the European Academy of Sciences and Arts for his work in the fields of the social sciences, law, and economics. “The Academy promotes transnational dialogue and visionary developments of new scientific knowledge and academic thinking, and has more than 1,500 world-renowned members, 28 of whom have received Nobel Prizes.”

Defining Ideas
Iraq After America by Lieutenant Colonel Joel Rayburn (contributor to the working group on Islamism and the international order)
Richard Epstein and John Yoo
Hoover research fellow Peter Robinson (left), Hoover senior fellow Richard Epstein (center), and John Yoo.

Obamacare and the Supreme Court with Richard Epstein and John Yoo

Richard Epstein, the Peter and Kirsten Bedford Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Law, New York University Law School, and John Yoo, a professor at the University of California at Berkeley law school, examine the merits of various constitutional arguments for the Supreme Court’s striking down Obamacare.


Hoover Digest
Hoover Digest 2012 no. 1.

Hoover Digest 2012 no. 1 is now online

The new issue features
Thomas Sargent's Rational Expectations by Art Rolnick
Math Matters by Eric Hanushek and Paul E. Peterson
Turnaround by John B. Taylor

Commentary
January 27, 2012 | National Review Online

The State of Education

Can schools rekindle the American work ethic...?
January 26, 2012 | Wall Street Journal

Lessons From the Great Expansion

Yes 'the middle class has shrunk'—because it's getting richer...
January 25, 2012 | Forbes.com

Warren Buffett's Secretary Likely Makes Between $200,000 And $500,000/Year

I have nothing against Debbie Bosanke earning a half million or even more...At her income, however, she is scarcely the symbol of injustice that Obama wishes her to project...
January 25, 2012 | Wall Street Journal

Economics for the Long Run

Individuals should be free to decide what to produce and consume, and their decisions should be made within a predictable policy framework based on the rule of law...
January 26, 2012 | Defining Ideas (Hoover Institution)

Will Newt Neuter the Courts?

Why is the liberty-loving presidential candidate taking his cues from FDR...?
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Library and Archives
January 20, 2012

Oswald’s Bulgarian Connection: The Spas Raikin Papers

Spas Raikin as a student in Bulgaria in 1946, during a summer job building a rai

The Hoover Archives has received the papers of Spas Raikin, a Bulgarian-American historian, and émigré anti-communist activist. His papers, contained in ninety-nine binders, document Raikin’s historical research and writing as well as Bulgarian émigré activities in the United States. Binder nr. 71, however, is different from the others. It documents an episode in Raikin’s life that has a place in world history: his meeting with Lee Harvey Oswald in the port at Hoboken, New Jersey on June 13, 1962, when Oswald was returning from the Soviet Union.

January 17, 2012

Interviews of Conservative Luminaries Available

Lee Edwards' audio interviews

Audio interviews of William F. Buckley, Steve Forbes, Milton Friedman, Newt Gingrich, Barry Goldwater, Edwin Meese III, and Ronald Reagan are among the more than two hundred cassette tapes that have been digitized for preservation and access by Hoover’s audio lab.

January 9, 2012 | Hoover Archivists' Musings (blog)

Floppy Diskography

Floppy Diskography

Recently three researchers sought access to the contents of 3.5-inch floppy disks in three archival collections at Hoover. You might think that responding to these requests is routine, but, after activating the write-protection tab and scanning for viruses, the process can take many turns.

December 14, 2011

Firing Line episodes available for the first time through Amazon Instant Video

William F. Buckley's Firing Line television series

Thirty-two programs from William F. Buckley’s Firing Line television series are now available on Amazon Instant Video, which offers instant streaming of the programs on compatible devices. Featured guests on those programs, which date from 1972 to 1999, include Newt Gingrich, Ronald Reagan, Thomas Sowell, Margaret Thatcher, Joan Baez, Christopher Hitchens, and Daniel Patrick Moynihan.

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News Update
January 26, 2012 | Kojo Nnamdi Show (WAMU)

Roberts discusses economics on the Kojo Nnamdi Show

Russell D. Roberts

Russell Roberts, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and a professor of economics and the J. Fish and Lillian F. Smith Distinguished Scholar at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, discusses the uses (and abuses) of economics on the campaign trail.

January 25, 2012 | Madeleine Brand Show (KPCC)

Ajami analyzes President Obama's foreign policy record on KPCC’ s Madeleine Brand Show

Fouad Ajami is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution

Fouad Ajami, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and cochair of the Working Group on Islamism and the International Order, discusses President Obama’s foreign policy accomplishments and what we can expect in the future.

January 25, 2012 | Secure Freedom Radio

Hanson discusses the state of our union on Secure Freedom Radio’s Frank Gaffney Show

Victor Davis Hanson

Victor Davis Hanson, the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, weighs in on the president’s State of the Union speech, specifically focusing on the question of whether or not the United States is really on the decline. Hanson then evaluates the current defense budget cuts by the administration. Are they really a wise way to reduce the deficit?

January 25, 2012 | Pulse (Bloomberg Television)

Spence discusses the prospects for unemployment and jump-starting growth in Europe and the United States

Michael A. Spence

Michael Spence, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Philip H. Knight Professor Emeritus of Management in the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University, discusses, with Maryam Nemazee on Bloomberg Television's The Pulse, investing in emerging markets and Western Europe and the outlook for the US and European economies in 2012.

January 24, 2012 | Street

John Taylor discusses restoring prosperity: trust markets, not bailouts

John B. Taylor

John Taylor, the George P. Shultz Senior Fellow in Economics at the Hoover Institution and the Mary and Robert Raymond Professor of Economics at Stanford University, makes the case against excessive government intervention and corporate bailouts on The Street. (3:13)

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