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Hoover Digest 2008 No. 3
June 27, 2008
A Measure of Pride
Five years into the Iraq war, a better country is emerging. By Fouad Ajami.
June 27, 2008
Time for a “Diplomatic Surge”
Democracy may be turning a corner in Iraq, but it’s going to need a lot of help. What kind of help? Intense pressure on Iraq’s leaders. By Larry Diamond.
June 27, 2008
Unfounded Hopes
In a nuclear Iran, could we count on a democratic counterrevolution? Hardly.Why we may have to impose a naval blockade instead. By Shmuel Bar and Peter Berkowitz.
June 27, 2008
A Modest Proposal for Mideast Peace
Refugees, lost territory, artificial states . . . after we somehow fix these problems in spots like Kashmir and Eastern Europe, fixing them in Israel will be a cinch. By Victor Davis Hanson.
June 27, 2008
Goodbye to All That?
Washing our hands of the Middle East—a notion that’s as futile as it is appealing. By Thomas H. Henriksen.
June 27, 2008
How Israelis See the Future
The evolving consensus: their nation, though threatened, is sound. By Peter Berkowitz.
June 27, 2008
The Foreign Service Blues
Those who serve America abroad are being asked to do more and more with less and less, but our diplomatic corps is doing just that as it performs new duties in Baghdad and the world. By Cecile Shea.
June 27, 2008
The Coming Tax Hike
Letting the Bush tax cuts expire would wreak havoc on our economy—while doing virtually nothing to shrink the deficit. By John F. Cogan and R. Glenn Hubbard.
June 27, 2008
Foundation Damage
The subprime-mortgage meltdown illustrates a secondary failure—that of individuals to accept responsibility for their decisions. By Gary S. Becker.
June 27, 2008
Blowing Bubbles
The mortgage crisis is a burst bubble, a failure of intelligence, and a rich psychological case study. What to do about it? Perhaps nothing. By Richard A. Posner.
June 27, 2008
When Deficits Make Sense
How debt helps to discipline public spending. Financial markets put a brake on ill-considered government projects, even when taxpayers don’t. By Dino Falaschetti.
June 27, 2008
No Subject Left Behind
How to stick up for subjects—history, literature, the arts—that fewer and fewer students get a chance to learn. By Diane Ravitch.
June 27, 2008
Lessons in Hypocrisy
The decision in a California homeschooling case suggests that parents care less about their children than do teachers. How likely is that? By Liam Julian.
June 27, 2008
A Schoolyard Scrapper
Call him “Troublemaker”—lots of people do. The provocative Chester E. Finn Jr., head of Hoover’s Koret Task Force on K–12 Education, has published a memoir. By Jay Mathews.
June 27, 2008
True-False Test on NCLB
Five ways to misunderstand No Child Left Behind. By Chester E. Finn Jr.
June 27, 2008
Tarnished Science
Even in the most prestigious journals, peer review isn’t always the gold standard it’s supposed to be. Studies can be grievously flawed. By Henry I. Miller.
June 27, 2008
The Mayor’s Curse
Maybe he has a future on Team Obama, but Michael Bloomberg seems a lot more likely to follow other New York mayors into political oblivion. There’s something about that job. . . .. By Arnold Beichman.
June 27, 2008
Pay to Stay
Is it so outlandish to suggest that we sell the right to live in the United States? Outlandish or not, such a policy would benefit legal and illegal immigrants alike. By Gary S. Becker.
June 27, 2008
Eminently Unjust
Give government too much discretion in eminent-domain cases, and you’ll get not justice or efficiency but favoritism and intrigue. By Richard A. Epstein.
June 27, 2008
Windows of Opportunity
The market will do a much better job of regulating Microsoft than government ever would. By F. Scott Kieff.
June 27, 2008
Ebb Tide of Freedom?
The worldwide triumph of democracy was never foreordained. But it’s also too soon to prophesy its failure. By Niall Ferguson.
June 27, 2008
Chávez Bides His Time
A threat of war flared in Latin America, and just as quickly subsided. Look closely, if you dare, at what Venezuela was up to. By William Ratliff.
June 27, 2008
What Price Ignorance?
Hugo Chávez of Venezuela seems surprised that price controls don’t work. They never do. By Thomas Sowell.
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June 27, 2008
Exhuming Secrets
Moscow is still trying to hide what really happened in the 1940 Katyn massacre. Why the truth won’t stay buried. By Paul R. Gregory and Maciej Siekierski.
July 1, 2008
A Critical Weakness
The effort may be slow and fumbling, but China is attempting to embrace property rights at last. By Jialin Zhang.
July 1, 2008
The Least Worst Way Forward
The independence of Kosovo, until months ago a mere province, is a flawed and fragile thing. The rest of the world's "unrepresented" are watching closely. By Timothy Garton Ash.
July 1, 2008
Letter from the Gulag
The strange story of a prisoner who complained to Stalin's secret police chief—and got results. By Golfo Alexopoulos.
July 1, 2008
Serious Fun
A note on the late William F. Buckley Jr. and Firing Line, television's longest-running sporting event. By Peter Robinson.
July 1, 2008
A Few Brave Voices
An exhibit tells the story of the Soviet dissidents who fought the Kremlin—and, in the end, won. By Brad Bauer.