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Hoover Digest by topic: History and Social Studies
August 13, 2012
Why Reading Matters
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Literature still offers the keys to self-mastery. By Victor Davis Hanson.
August 13, 2012
The Risks of a "Sputnik moment"
Do we really want the federal government to launch a national curriculum? By Williamson M. Evers.
April 6, 2012
A Boot Camp for Citizenship
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Civics education must not be indoctrination, but it also must not be overlooked. By Peter Berkowitz.
October 12, 2011
Higher Marks
How to get even better results from standardized testing. By Herbert J. Walberg.
October 12, 2011
Rhymes with "Recession"
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Hoover fellow Russell Roberts is using rap music to make the dismal science far less dismal. By Charles Lindsey.
July 13, 2011
The Core of Civic Virtue
Either we teach the young to understand and appreciate their freedom, or we cheat them of their birthright. By William Damon.
March 29, 2011
A Most Ingenious Trick
Matt Ridley, author of The Rational Optimist, insists that we humans must face the truth about ourselves—no matter how good it might be. An interview with Peter Robinson.
January 12, 2011
Stalin’s Genocides
Yet another crime the Soviet dictator got away with: defining genocide to exclude what he did. Hoover fellow Norman M. Naimark tells how it happened. By Cynthia Haven.
January 12, 2011
America, Dismantled
Hoover fellow Thomas Sowell digs in his heels against American decline. By David Hogberg.
January 12, 2011
A Communist Rogues’ Gallery
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His new Dictionary of 20th-Century Communism is no closed book. Hoover fellow Robert Service says the movement that claimed tens of millions of victims has “a living legacy, alas.” By John J. Miller.