When I was a little boy, my mother liked to quote the following quatrain (sometimes attributed to the New York wit Dorothy Parker): “See the happy moron, / He doesn’t give a damn, / I wish I were a moron, / My God! Perhaps I am!”
“From Hiroshima to a Nuke-Free World” (editorial, April 13) underscored the need for “bolder action” than the Obama administration has been able to take in recent years to move toward its long-term goal of a world without nuclear weapons, a vision that we share.
Most Americans understand that individuals who have been subject to an authorized disciplinary procedure and have accepted their prescribed punishment shouldn’t be investigated and punished a second time for the same offense.
"US rejects 'living wills' of 5 banks," from FT. WSJ puts this event in the larger story of Dodd Frank unraveling. Juicy quotes: WSJ: “living wills,” ... are supposed to show in detail how these banking titans, in the event of failure, could be placed into bankruptcy without wrecking the financial system.
Gary Belsky, co-author of On the Origins of Sports and former editor-in-chief of ESPN the Magazine, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the origins of sports--how various sports evolved and emerged into their current incarnations.
College. The university will either change soon or simply implode; its present course is unsustainable and rests on the premise that schizophrenic deans and presidents can still manage to write and say things to student cry bullies that they hope their donors and alumni never read or hear
The sick man of Europe today is Europe — both the idea and the continent. President Obama’s long-standing benign neglect of our closest allies is dangerously out of date, as he will discover on his trip to Britain and Germany this month.
I had the lead for this column all lined and ready to go – and then Maureen Dowd beat me to it: the oddity of Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders heading in opposite directions following Thursday’s Brooklyn debate (in Dowd’s words: “acrimony, cacophony, sanctimony and, naturally, baloney”).
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has called on the National Diet to amend Article 9 of the country's Constitution, which renounces war as a means of settling disputes. Drafted by the United States after World War II, the Constitution contains "some parts (that) do not fit into the current period", Mr Abe said.
Warren Buffett is known for his pithy sayings and homespun investment philosophy. One Buffettism states that “it takes 20 years to build a reputation and five seconds to destroy it.”
A bedrock principle of democracy is “one man, one vote.” Or, is it? The 2016 presidential primaries and caucuses have shown that the great majority of a state’s registered Republicans or Democrats can be excluded from the selection process on the basis of “rules” drawn up by party bosses who are wined and dined (bribed is a better word) by candidates and their supporters.
Developing countries must also find creative ways to increase government revenue. Even the poorest nations today fund the large majority of essential services like health care and education. But many don't have the expertise and resources to raise more money through broad-based and effective tax collection.
Water shortage causes drought. Cricket grounds use water. Therefore cricket causes drought. This was the sprightly but fallacious reasoning of the Bombay high court in response to a recent Public Interest Litigation suit brought against the Indian Premier League, seeking to curtail the playing of cricket in the drought-stricken state of Maharashtra.
On March 25, noted economist Lester Thurow died. Here's a good, if brief, obit in the New York Times. He and I had different views on many policy issues. He was a senior economist with Lyndon Johnson's Council of Economic Advisers, working under Chairman Walter Heller.
Hoover Institution fellow Michael McFaul discusses the conflicts that divide Russia and the US today, how the two countries' leaders should structure relations, and why America suffers from a shortage of experts specializing in Russia.
Hoover Institution fellow John Taylor discusses the Taylor Rule, the Great Inflation, the housing boom period, the Great Recession, QE, the failure of the Fed to hit its inflation target, the international dimensions of Fed policy, rules versus discretion, and the latest efforts by Congress to nudge the Fed towards a more rules-based approach to monetary policy.
An appeals court decision this week upholding California's teacher tenure and seniority rules leaves school reform forces at a crossroads as they press for changes across the nation.
The “Bernie Bus” is coming. A bright red charter bus plastered with an image of the Vermont senator among a sea of nurses is expected to cross the California state line in early May.
The same week a state appellate court overturned a lower court’s ruling that barred teacher tenure, four families in Minnesota filed a similar lawsuit questioning the fairness of tenure laws and last in-first out policies.
Recently, the Georgetown Center for the Constitution and the Institute for Justice held a faculty colloquium on “Is the Rational Basis Test Unconstitutional?”
Nuclear proliferation and disarmament are topics teenagers don’t usually try to tackle, but that’s precisely what will occur Friday and Saturday at Santa Catalina School, when about 60 students from the United States, Russia and Japan take part in the Critical Issues Forum and present their studies on the topic, “Global Nuclear Vulnerability: Lessons for a More Secure and Peaceful World.”
Apple and the FBI may have been settled the litigation over the San Bernadino iPhone litigation, but that doesn’t mean the fight is over. With Congress on the verge of considering new legislation to compel technology companies to decrypt data, the Going Dark debate is alive and well.
