As America said goodbye to Barbara Bush this weekend, it seems appropriate to note some other characteristics of the politics of her life and times that are no longer with us.
Cryptocurrencies like bitcoin have to solve two and a half important problems if they are to become currencies: 1) Unstable values 2) High transactions costs 2.5) Anonymity.
Jonah Goldberg of National Review talks about his latest book, Suicide of the West, with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Goldberg argues that both capitalism and democracy are at risk in the current contentious political environment. He argues that we take for granted what he calls "the miracle"--the transformation of the standard of living in the democracies with market economies.
I am not prone to anxiety. I inherited from my parents a relatively robust mental constitution. I am rarely introspective and have never sought psychological or psychiatric help. Last week, however, I experienced an uncontrollable panic attack.
Hoover Institution fellow Paul Peterson and New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu discuss efforts to bring education savings accounts and full-day kindergarten to his state.
The spring issue of Hoover Digest is now available online. The journal focuses on topics both classical—the economy, personal freedom, the role of government—and timely, such as cybersecurity, terrorism, and geopolitical shifts.
I wrote last weekend about why I find it relatively easy to admit mistakes. In the week since I've remembered one early instance where I admitted a point quickly and surprised the other person and one instance where a famous economist admitted my point quickly and surprised me.
With apologies to Pauline Kael. April has been a great month for anti-government movies. I'll highlight three that I saw this month, with multiple spoilers: "The Death of Stalin," "Chappaquiddick," and "The Post."
interview with Scott W. Atlasvia Lars Larson National Podcast
Friday, April 20, 2018
Hoover Institution fellow Scott Atlas discusses how to fix the high cost of medications by exposing the cost of medications to competition and value seeking purchasers.
Rebecca Kockler, Louisiana’s assistant superintendent of academic content, joins Hoover Institution fellow Michael Petrilli and Robert Pondiscio, to discuss her state’s curriculum initiative.
This month, the U.S. Department of Education released the latest results of the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP), which told us how fourth- and eighth-grade students are faring nationally, in every state, and in most big cities in math and reading. This month also marks the thirty-fifth anniversary of A Nation at Risk.
In partnership with the Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford Libraries presents The Baltic Way, an exhibition that aims to tell the complicated history of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania in the twentieth century, and considers their prospects and challenges in the twenty-first. The Baltic Way: History and Culture in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania 1918–2018 will open May 10 and run through August 18, 2018 in the Cecil H. Green Library, Bing Wing, on the Stanford campus.
Hoover Archives has digitized and made available to researchers the memoirs and drawings of Polish diplomat, agronomist, writer, and nobleman Mieczyslaw Jalowiecki.
"The world has never been a level playing field,’ quips economic historian David S Landes. ‘Heck, don’t we know that?’ chorus the Left. ‘That is why we are the demolition men and women of this world. Armed with dynamite, wrecking balls, bulldozers and earthmovers, our vision is to pulverise the evil of inequality and create a new world of homogeneous egalitarianism.’
The Department of the Interior has worked steadily to increase opportunity and access to the federal lands and resources under its purview. Earlier this week, the department released a comprehensive list of its accomplishments thus far in 2018.
When the nation falls into a recession — which is inevitable — there are typically two ways to ease the pain. One way is to use government spending to stimulate the economy. That usually means building up debt. But what if the nation’s debt is already at levels not seen since World War II?
Plants play vital roles in the ecosystem. They convert carbon dioxide to oxygen which allows the majority of animal life on the planet to thrive. Thanks to research done by the Royal Botanical Gardens in the United Kingdom, there are approximately 391,000 known species of vascular plants.
“I’ve been poor, and I’ve been rich, and rich is better!” — Beatrice Kaufman. Most of us have seen tough economic times — as starving students, newlyweds scrimping to get through college, new parents stretching to pay for their new baby or retirees adjusting to life without a salary.
The Trump White House is reacting skeptically in private to North Korea’s announcement of plans to freeze nuclear weapons testing, warning that dictator Kim Jong Un could be setting a trap and promising not to back off a hard-line stance ahead of a potential leaders’ summit.
Kanye West, the Chicago rapper who is now married to Kim Kardashian, has been on a stream of consciousness tell-all via Twitter the past few days. In his ranting, Kanye has said seemingly unrelated thoughts such as “images are limitless and words aren't. Words are defined” and “truth is my goal. Controversy is my gym. I'll do a hundred reps of controversy for a 6 pack of truth.”
President Donald Trump’s upcoming meeting with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un may appear to be a breakthrough between two leaders who openly talked about nuclear war in 2017.
