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Hoover Digest 2005 No. 2
April 30, 2005
Putting Money in a Safe Place—Our Pockets
Why personal retirement accounts represent “an essential ingredient in any plan to fix Social Security’s financial problem.” By John F. Cogan.
April 30, 2005
The Common Sense of Social Security Reform
The critics of Social Security reform say there’s no rush, let alone a crisis. The critics are wrong. By Michael J. Boskin.
April 30, 2005
Getting the Government Out of the Retirement Business
The real reasons to privatize Social Security. By Gary S. Becker.
April 30, 2005
Private Accounts for Social Security?
Debunking the myths of Social Security privatization. By Edward P. Lazear.
April 30, 2005
Enron Lives
The first step in fixing Social Security? Keeping honest books. By Clark S. Judge.
April 30, 2005
An Arab Spring?
“The only approach to solving the problem of safety in a world of Islamic and Arab radicalism is to change the culture of the region. A year ago people were saying that was a utopian dream. History is beginning to show that it is not.” By Charles Krauthammer.
April 30, 2005
Enigma in Beijing
China may have embraced capitalism with enormous zeal—but it remains unlikely to embrace American-style democracy anytime soon. By Thomas A. Metzger.
April 30, 2005
A Superpower? No Time Soon
China’s economy is growing at a phenomenal pace, but Beijing has a long way to go to acquire the global political, strategic, and economic reach of a superpower. By Alice Lyman Miller.
April 30, 2005
Red Dragon, Black Gold
China has a voracious need for imported oil. Can the planet handle another economic superpower? By William Ratliff.
April 30, 2005
How to Disarm North Korea
To persuade North Korea to abandon its nuclear ambitions, the United States must collaborate with China, South Korea, Japan, and Russia. By Charles Wolf Jr.
April 30, 2005
Putin’s Authoritarian Soul
The first test for George W. Bush’s liberty doctrine. By James M. Goldgeier and Michael McFaul.
April 30, 2005
From Iron Curtain to Golden Arches
Celebrating 15 years of Russian happy meals. By Arnold Beichman.
April 30, 2005
The French Lesson
Dennis Bark introduces an essay by Olivier Dassault, “a remarkable Frenchman,” about France and the French, the value of freedom, and America and Europe.
April 30, 2005
Slouching Toward Byzantium
Robert Conquest on the United Nations, the European Union, and the decline of the West.
April 30, 2005
Labour’s Labor Problem
Why Tony Blair’s Labour Party has kept the labor movement at arm’s length. By Gerald A. Dorfman.
April 30, 2005
Our Currency, Your Problem
How long can the Chinese go on financing America’s deficit spending? The answer may be a lot longer than the dollar pessimists expect. By Niall Ferguson.
April 30, 2005
The Folly of Sarbanes-Oxley
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act? “The worst affliction visited on public companies in the last 70 years.” By Scott S. Powell.
April 30, 2005
The Ultimate Chain Letter
How doing business with strangers creates the extraordinary web that is the modern economy. By Russell Roberts.
April 30, 2005
The U.N., Biotechnology, and the Poorest of the Poor
How the U.N.’s systematic sacrifice of science, technology, and sound public policy to its own bureaucratic self-interest obstructs technological innovation and hurts the poorest of the poor. By Henry I. Miller and Gregory Conko.
April 30, 2005
Chinatown Revisited
Los Angeles, it is widely believed, was able to become a major city only after stealing water from farmers elsewhere in California in the 1920s. The problem with this belief? It’s false. By Gary D. Libecap.
April 30, 2005
Failing the Wrong Grades
The right—and wrong—way to improve America’s public high schools. By Diane Ravitch.
April 30, 2005
Too Many Teachers, Too Little Pay
Over the past 50 years America has invested in more teachers rather than in better ones. By Chester E. Finn Jr.
April 30, 2005
Bush’s War on Poverty, Part II
The Bush administration is promoting a 10-year program to eradicate homelessness in America. Is this goal attainable? By Jeffrey M. Jones.
April 30, 2005
Decline and Fall
Broadcast journalism isn’t what it used to be—and won’t be again. By Robert Zelnick.
April 30, 2005
Lincoln: Hypocrite or Statesman?
Reflections on “the greatest practitioner of democratic statesmanship that America and the world have yet produced.” By Dinesh D’Souza.
April 30, 2005
Freedom Is Not Free
Not all threats to our freedom come from beyond our borders. By William C. Edwards.
April 30, 2005
The Adventures of the ARA in Minsk
From 1920 to 1923, a group of Americans working for the American Relief Administration, an organization directed by Herbert Hoover, helped provide famine relief in the war-torn Soviet republic of Belarus. Their efforts have now been largely forgotten, but journalist Alexander Lukashuk has made use of the extensive collection of ARA letters and documents housed in the Hoover Archives as well as in Belarusian archives to tell their story.