Between June 24 and July 22, National Security Adviser Robert O’Brien, FBI Director Christopher Wray, Attorney General William Barr, and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo gave a series of speeches on the China challenge. In mid-July -- after the national security adviser’s and FBI director’s speeches but before the attorney general’s and secretary of state’s speeches -- the State Department’s Commission on Unalienable Rights released a draft report.
America has essentially given up on containing the corona virus, and will just let it spread while we await a vaccine. Oh sure, our governors and other public officials flap around about wearing masks and social distancing. But there is no serious public health effort. (If you're in California, I encourage you to listen to NPR's faithful coverage of our Governor Gavin Newsom's noon daily press conference. Never has anyone so artfully said so little in so many words.)
The inner-Biden at 77 is turning out to be an unabashed bigot in the age of “cancel culture” and thought crimes that has apparently declared him immune from the opprobrium reserved for any such speech.
Journalist and author Ben Cohen talks about his book, The Hot Hand, with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. At times in sports and elsewhere in life, a person seems to be "on fire," playing at an unusually high level. Is this real or an illusion? Cohen takes the listener through the scientific literature on this question and spreads a very wide net to look at the phenomenon of being in the zone outside of sports. Topics include Shakespeare, investing, Stephen Curry, and asylum judges.
Russian immigrant Mikhail Kokorich talks about America’s edge in the new era of private exploration, and his own plans for a water-fueled space transport.
A former senior attorney at the Institute of Justice and the lead attorney in the Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue case, Richard Komer, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss the outcome of that Supreme Court case, and what it could mean for school choice going forward.
With Utah’s colleges and universities just weeks from starting classes, the state’s institutions of higher education have solidified their plans — at least for now — to maximize learning and minimize the spread of the coronavirus on campus. Yet, colleges aren’t the only ones who have to make tough decisions; students do too.
Total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 1.8 million in July, and the unemployment rate fell to 10.2 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. These improvements in the labor market reflected the continued resumption of economic activity that had been curtailed due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and efforts to contain it.
I recently listened to Juliette Sellgren’s 36-minute interview of Washington Post columnist George Will. Juliette does an excellent job of briefly stating Will’s argument about the growth of presidential power at the expense of Congress. Her statement starts at 5:15 and ends at 5:52. Will says that she has “efficiently and accurately” distilled his argument about the presidency. I agree.
One of my biggest regrets is that I never met Stephen F. Williams, a judge in the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. He and I carried on a number of lively discussions on email starting in 2007. (It might have started a few years earlier.) I had planned to see him on a May trip to D.C. this year, but of course that trip was cancelled. And now he is gone. He died of COVID-19.
interview with Condoleezza Ricevia George W. Bush Presidential Center
Tuesday, July 21, 2020
Hoover Institution fellow Condoleezza Rice explains the rise of nativism, populism, isolationism, and protectionism across the world and their impact on democracies.
Hoover Institution fellow Condoleezza Rice, at the virtual celebration of 100 years of women’s suffrage, “19th Amendment: Past, Present, and Future,” reflected on the fight for women’s equality.
Hoover Institution fellow John Yoo talks about his new book, Defender in Chief, as well as his time clerking on the Supreme Court and his role in the Bush 43 Administration.
The United States is facing a historic crisis that fundamentally threatens our democratic system of government, according to Stanford political scientist Terry Moe.
America prides itself on a distinctive legacy of freedom and justice. Yet despite our nation’s many enduring contributions to notions of human dignity, human rights, and political liberty, such gifts have not come without significant stains of hypocrisy and self-contradiction.
If you want to increase student achievement among minority students, increase the number of charter schools. That’s the conclusion of economist Thomas Sowell.
Dr Lomborg, who is one of the World’s 100 most influential people rated by TIMES Magazine, lauded Ghana for posting a 3.5 % average GDP growth per capita a year before the emergence of the pandemic, whilst extreme poverty fell by almost 80% as declared by the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS).
A coalition of Democratic state lawmakers and liberal activists is touting new bill that attempts to deal with the state’s falling revenues caused by the coronavirus-related shutdowns. Assembly Bill 1253 is not really a new approach, of course, but the oldest one in the progressive playbook: boosting tax rates on the highest earners.
There hasn’t been much over at CNN of late that deviates from the usual, tiresome, “Bad Orange Man is a deranged, homicidal Nazi” mantra that’s par for the course at most any non-Fox News media outlet these days. But last week I was surprised to run across this surprising “Cuomo Prime Time” segment between CNN host Chris Cuomo and Dr. Sanjay Gupta.
With only three months to go until Election Day, experts are concerned about the health and integrity of the nation’s elections, particularly as they are set against the backdrop of the COVID pandemic, nationwide protests and civil unrest.
The hard left among academics, public intellectuals and the media are imposing false narratives about race and capitalism, and CEOs expediently kowtow to protect corporate brands.
Donald Trump is expected to take at least one more significant action on immigration before the November election. If history is a guide, he will call the move “merit-based” but end up restricting the ability of companies to employ high-skilled foreign nationals.
