- search:
-
hoover.org
-
archives
-
library
Publications
Publications
policy review
hoover digest
defining ideas
education next
china leadership monitor
The Hoover Institution’s library and tower will be closed on Tuesday morning, February 14, 2012, due to electrical work. The Hoover archives will be open during the process. The library and tower will reopen at 11:30 am on February 14, 2012. We apologize for any inconvenience.
Hoover Digest 2008 No. 4
October 12, 2008
What a “Change Candidate” . . . Can’t
Our new president will face familiar friends and even more familiar foes. By Victor Davis Hanson.
October 12, 2008
What Neoconservatism Is—and Isn’t
Where neoconservatism came from, what it stands for, and how it became associated with the war in Iraq. An intellectual movement considered. By Peter Berkowitz.
October 12, 2008
Memo to the Next President
Soft power in the war on terror needs to be much more effective. How to sharpen one of the most important soft weapons: the law. By Jack Goldsmith.
October 12, 2008
Fear as a Tax
How an overconcern with security can distort the face America shows the world. By Josef Joffe.
October 12, 2008
Evasion and Consequences
A short answer to the long war’s most urgent question: who is the enemy? By Daniel Pipes.
October 12, 2008
Suppose We Caught Bin Laden . . . Then What?
Seven years after 9/11, the legal aspects of the war on terrorism remain a mess. The next commander in chief must clean it up quickly. By Benjamin Wittes.
October 12, 2008
Taylor’s Rule
How Hoover senior fellow John B. Taylor condensed a mass of complicated theory about monetary policy into a single lucid equation. By Prakash Loungani.
October 12, 2008
Rocking the Fed’s Boat
Empowering the Federal Reserve to fix problems in the financial services industry may seem the smart thing to do right now, but watch out. Its hard-earned independence is at stake. By Dino Falaschetti. and Michael J. Orlando.
October 12, 2008
Hauser’s Law
Soak the rich? You can’t. A vital observation, first noted by former Hoover board chairman W. Kurt Hauser, banished this bit of wishful thinking. By David Ranson.
October 12, 2008
“A Tax Revolt, First and Foremost”
A comprehensive book by Hoover senior fellow Alvin Rabushka shows how newborn America found its financial footing.
October 12, 2008
No Child Gets Ahead
Is the No Child Left Behind Act supposed to help everyone, or only the disadvantaged? By Chester E. Finn Jr. and Michael J. Petrilli .
October 12, 2008
A Nation Still at Risk
Twenty-five years ago, there was a clarion call for better education. The clamor for school testing has drowned it out. By Diane Ravitch.
October 12, 2008
How Green Is My Salad
This year’s “killer tomato” scare should put food-safety remedies like irradiation and genetic modification back on the menu. By Henry I. Miller.
October 12, 2008
I’m OK—You’re a Selfish, Partisan Hypocrite
A Hoover/ Economist survey of political attitudes finds voters in no mood for postpartisan lovey-dovey. By James W. Ceaser.
October 12, 2008
Campaign What-Ifs
Some of the roads not taken during this year’s wild primary season. By Bill Whalen.
October 12, 2008
Power Misdirected
Did the Boumediene decision represent a victory for separation of powers? Hardly, despite what the Supreme Court majority claimed. Instead, it was judicial overreach. By Peter Berkowitz.
October 12, 2008
Less Disorder in the Court
The Supreme Court decided Boumediene correctly—but on the wrong grounds. By Richard A. Epstein.
October 12, 2008
Who Will Stand Up to the Tanks?
Hoover senior fellow Larry Diamond looks for places where democracy can still arise, and may yet flourish. By Janine di Giovanni.
October 15, 2008
Moscow’s Leading Question
Who’s in charge, Vladimir Putin or Dmitry Medvedev? There is no simple answer. By Paul R. Gregory.
October 14, 2008
Into Africa
A new military command takes a broad, sophisticated view of the U.S. role in a neglected continent. Its job won’t be easy. By James J. Hentz.
October 14, 2008
China Calling
China has come to Africa. Can U.S. policy makers find ways to mesh, not clash, with Beijing’s interests? By Christopher C. Starling.
October 14, 2008
Racial Parity Hits the Wall
After many hopeful years, progress in bridging black-white gaps— health, education, achievement—has stalled. By Gary S. Becker.
October 14, 2008
The Young and the Restless
How can we guide our young people toward a meaningful life? Research by Hoover senior fellow William Damon suggests a critical answer: by giving them a sense of purpose.
October 14, 2008
What the Fastest-Growing Countries Can Teach Us
After leading a two-year study of the world’s surging economies, Hoover senior fellow Michael Spence wants to put their example to work.
October 14, 2008
Adapt or Perish
To succeed in the war on terror, Philip Bobbitt insists, the West needs an entirely new conceptual framework.
By Peter Robinson.
October 14, 2008
Caretaker of Chinese History
What makes Hoover an essential stop for China scholars? An interview with Richard Sousa, director of the Hoover Archives. By He Lidan.
October 14, 2008
Explaining 1968
Was it a revolution? No. More like a baby-boomer coming-out party— with a rough morning after. By Niall Ferguson.
October 14, 2008
A Tale of Two Generations
Timothy Garton Ash compares the Europeans who came of age in 1968 with those whose barricades fell during the velvet revolutions of 1989.
October 14, 2008
May the Best Ideas Win
Eisenhower took office at a time of wars both cold and hot. One of his first actions was a complete rethinking of foreign policy. Our next president could learn from Ike’s example. By J. William DeMarco.
October 14, 2008
A Cultivated Collaborator
The French writer Jacques Benoist-Méchin never quite repented of his enthusiasm for his Nazi masters. A new glimpse at a complex personality. By David Jacobs.