One issue that’s stuck with Joe Biden over the years: originality. Namely, is there anything about the former senator and vice president — and, in a few days, the Democratic presidential nominee — that smacks of novelty or innovation?
President Trump’s newest coronavirus adviser is a former Stanford radiologist and health care policy specialist who advocates “safely” reopening the economy and schools now, a stance that puts him at odds with more cautious policymakers in California and even his own university, which this week backed off plans to offer in-person instruction this fall.
If you liked the 1930s, you will love the 2020s. Again, it is crisis-overload: COVID, economic catastrophe, the assault on free trade, and the rise of illiberalism on the left and on the right. With the United States abdicating, who will answer the 911 calls?
In this 750th (!) episode, Duke University's Michael Munger talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about whether the pandemic might create an opportunity for colleges and universities to experiment and innovate. Munger is Professor of Political Science, Economics and Public Policy at Duke. He believes "top" schools can emerge from the current period of uncertainty to thrive in the long run. The path for "second-tier" institutions could be more difficult.
The Superintendent of the South Carolina Public Charter School District, Chris G. Neely, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss how the state plans to reopen for the fall semester during the Covid-19 pandemic.
As the Preamble to the 1957 Treaty of Rome stated, the purpose of the then European Economic Community was to “lay the foundations of an ever-closer union” among Europeans. This phrase became interpreted as a call for a progressively tighter political merger of the member states, with the European Union as the latest embodiment of this purpose. The problem with this progressive vision, however, is twofold: first, it is never fully achieved as the final objective remains always on the horizon and, second, it is grounded in the belief that a common market can create a unified polity.
Most economists go through their lives wondering if any of their work has had an effect on the world beyond academe. The seven economists that Alan Bollard writes about in Economists at War probably never had to wonder. Bollard, an economics professor at Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand, traces the effects seven economists had on their governments’ policies before, during, and after wartime.
Hoover Institution fellow Victor Davis Hanson says that that the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement has parallels with other mass movements throughout history, including the French Revolution, and the Cultural Revolution in Communist China.
Coronavirus public K-12 school safety lockdowns and reopening uncertainties have driven millions of American families to think very seriously about home-schooling, private schooling and charter school alternatives that are facing opposition from powerful teacher union lobbies and compliant Democratic advocates.
“In terms of being a pediatrician, I just think the science is so clear that the risk of death or hospitalization for children with this virus is so, so low.”
Labor market indicators suggest that the early job losses of the pandemic are increasingly becoming permanent, putting the long-term health of the economy in further doubt.
As the United States plunged into chaos in 2020, an insidious ideology gained sudden strength and popularity. The killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, which ignited protests and riots across the nation, as well as the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, have allowed an anti-American, anti-Western movement to flourish.
Arguments have been raging for months in Pennsylvania over how best to proceed with education during the coronavirus pandemic. Finding the solution that everyone can agree on for keeping children, teachers and staff safe while also maximizing the potential for learning has proven to be difficult, if not impossible.
