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(LAST 7 DAYS)
1. How to Cure Health Care
The United States spends a mind-boggling percentage of its GDP on a health care system that virtually everyone agrees is a disaster. Is there any way out of this mess? There is—and Hoover fellow Milton Friedman has found it.
2. The Changing American Family
During the past 20 years, the American family has undergone a profound transformation. By Herbert S. Klein.
3. Noam Chomsky, Closet Capitalist
Chomsky talks an anti-capitalist game, but what does he practice? Market economics at their most profitable. By Peter Schweizer.
4. Here’s a Second Opinion
Ten reasons why America’s health care system is in better condition
than you might suppose. By Scott W. Atlas.
5. The Case for Free Trade
In international trade, Hoover fellow Charles Wolf Jr. argues above, deficits don't much matter. Here Milton Friedman and Rose Friedman discuss what does: freedom. A ringing statement of logic and principle.
6. The Right Minimum Wage? Zero
David R. Henderson examines the minimum-wage debate, separating a little bit of
sense from a great deal of nonsense.
7. The Decline and Fall of American Education
American education is in serious trouble. Why aren’t we more concerned? By Paul E. Peterson.
8. Homework Pays Off
Hoover fellows Hanna Skandera and Richard Sousa on the correlation between homework and academic performance.
9. Affirmative Action around the World
Thomas Sowell recently concluded a study of affirmative action programs around the world, from India and Malaysia to Nigeria and the United States. His findings? Such programs have at best a negligible impact on the groups they are intended to assist.
10. A World Free of Nuclear Weapons
Ending the threat of nuclear arms. By George P. Shultz, William J. Perry, Henry A. Kissinger, Sam Nunn.
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