OP-EDS AND COMMENTARY BY HOOVER FELLOWS
Putin Changes Jobs – And Russia
Wall Street Journal, May 9, 2008
by David Satter (Research Fellow).
Dmitri Medvedev was sworn in Wednesday as president of the Russian Federation in the Great Kremlin Palace...
Natural selection
Guardian, May 8, 2008
by Henry I. Miller (Research Fellow ).
"Enhancement" of physical and mental abilities is becoming more and more sophisticated, at least for those who can afford it...
ARTICLES ABOUT THE HOOVER INSTITUTION AND ITS FELLOWS
Israel@60
National Review, May 9, 2008
Daniel Pipes (Taube/Diller Distinguished Visiting Fellow) is featured in this article.
To mark the 60th anniversary of Israel’s founding this week, National Review Online asked a group of experts: Where is Israel going to?...
Putin steps ... up?
Minnesota Daily (Univ. MN), May 8, 2008
Michael McFaul (Peter and Helen Bing Senior Fellow) is mentioned in this article.
In Casino Royale, the latest Bond film, 'M' declares, "Christ, I miss the Cold War!"...
Bring back Milton Friedman
Business Spectator (Australia), May 8, 2008
Milton Friedman is quoted in this article.
Judging by the world’s leading bond markets, inflation isn’t anything to worry about...
Good things come to he who waits to retire
Erie Times-News (PA), May 8, 2008
Milton Friedman is mentioned in this article.
Dear Mr. Berko: Our friends Don and Judy told me that you gave them the following advice in 2003 to increase their Social Security income...
Socialized health care ineffective policy
The Santa Clara (Santa Clara Univ. CA), May 8, 2008
Milton Friedman is mentioned in this article.
Socialized medicine, or universal health care as it is commonly called, has proven to be a wildly popular idea...
BLOGS, PODCASTS AND OTHER INTERNET OFFERINGS
The Word According to Tom Wolfe: Chapter 5 of 5
Uncommon Knowledge, May 9, 2008
by Peter M. Robinson (Research Fellow).
Tom Wolfe and America?...
The Word Was Good
Dartblog.com, May 8, 2008
. Peter M. Robinson (Research Fellow) is mentioned.
If you have not been watching Peter Robinson’s Uncommon Knowledge in its new, non-PBS incarnation, you have made a grave error...
Al Qaeda in Iraq leader possibly arrested
ABC 7 News (CA), May 8, 2008
. Thomas H. Henriksen (Senior Fellow ) is quoted.
Overseas the leader of al Qaeda in Iraq is believed to be under arrest on Thursday...
Everything Upside Down
Works and Days, May 8, 2008
by Victor Davis Hanson (Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow).
Just a month ago, pundits (cf. Frank Rich’s mid-April New York Times article) were writing off the violence in Basra—especially rocket and mortar attacks on the Green Zone—as Tet, 1968...
Atomic tragedy
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, May 8, 2008
. Hoover Institution is mentioned.
The Robert L. Capp collection at the Hoover Institution Archives contains ten never-before-published photographs illustrating the immediate aftermath of the Hiroshima bombing...
Gas-price blues: The 'Smart' answer
Baltimore Sun, May 8, 2008
. Milton Friedman is mentioned.
It's a little-known fact that I worked my way through college pumping gas...
Learning from Russia's Mistakes in Afghanistan
Globalist, May 7, 2008
. Paul R. Gregory (Research Fellow) is mentioned.
During a nine-year war, 620,000 Soviet troops served in Afghanistan...
Tales from the Secret Soviet Archives
Globalist, May 6, 2008
. Paul R. Gregory (Research Fellow) is mentioned.
On Christmas Day 1979, U.S. intelligence detected waves of Soviet military aircraft flying into Afghanistan...
Facts on Policy
Hoover Institution, May 6, 2008
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Did you know? . . . There are 161 different types of crude oil traded on the international market...
NEWS RELEASES ABOUT THE HOOVER INSTITUTION AND ITS FELLOWS
From Hoover Press: Communicating with the World of Islam, Edited by A. Ross Johnson, Principal Report by George P. Shultz
Business Wire, May 8, 2008
George P. Shultz (Thomas W. and Susan B. Ford Distinguished Fellow) and A. Ross Johnson (Research Fellow ) are featured in this news release. Abbas Milani (Research Fellow) is mentioned in this news release.
How can the United States more effectively counter terrorism, promote democracy, and improve its image in predominantly Islamic countries and communities?...
