The yearlong controversy over the State Department’s Commission on Unalienable Rights illustrates the potency of the intolerant and uncivil passions afflicting the nation. It also underscores the urgency of the commission’s report, which Secretary of State Mike Pompeo presented to the public last Thursday in a speech in Philadelphia at the National Constitution Center and in a Washington Post op-ed.
California’s 2020-21 $202 billion state budget spends about three times as much per state resident, adjusted for inflation, as 30 years ago. But look around and you won’t see your tax dollars at work. You will see public schools in disrepair, potholes large enough to take out your rear axle and century-old water pipes bursting. Basic government functions are grossly inadequate.
The 66th Secretary of State and The Denning Professor in Global Business and the Economy at Stanford University, Condoleeza Rice, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss how school choice can help lower-income families get more of out the public education system, and how systemic change will be necessary to improve racial equality in America.
It wasn’t that long ago when much of the global elite had conclusively decided that climate change was our world’s top priority. Then came a massive sideswiping by a global pandemic, of which we have only seen the first wave, along with an equally massive global recession. It serves as a timely reminder that an alarmism that cultivates one fear over others serves society poorly.
The routine on the plant tour could be physically and mentally taxing. As occasional traveling aide Ed Langley reported, however, “There is [a] way that Ron stays fresh on these trips. He makes them an adventure. There has to be a set pattern to the talks, but he always seems to find a way to vary the routine. Consider what happened today.” At a reception for middle-management employees, one of the wives asked Reagan what she could do about her young son.
A large group of students want me fired from my faculty position. The main charge they make against me is that I believe slavery is wrong for the wrong reasons—“because it goes against Libertarianism, not because it is morally wrong.”
In the mid-1990s, Shetty began experimenting with a business school concept alternately called upskilling or task-shifting. The idea is for everyone involved in a complex process to work only at the top of his qualification, leaving simpler tasks to lower-paid workers. In a hospital, this might mean that the costliest staff—experienced surgeons—enter the operating theater only to complete the most difficult part of a procedure, leaving everything else to junior doctors or well-trained nurses.
Hoover Institution fellow Victor Davis Hanson says that Joe Biden's support for allocating millions of dollars toward "distance learning" rather than reopening schools for in-person instruction ignores science, psychology, and economics.
Hoover Institution fellow Ayaan Hissi Ali discusses Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's speech on human rights and how important human rights are to and for everyone.
Hoover Institution fellow John Yoo discusses the the unrest and rioting in Portland, and how federal and local law enforcement are working to stop the violence.
The issues putting pressure on the U.S.-Iraqi relationship are daunting. The confrontation between Iran and the United States frequently plays out on Iraqi streets. COVID-19 is spreading at alarming rates and overwhelming Iraq’s beleaguered healthcare system. The collapsing oil market has the country’s finances on the brink.
One of the frequent complaints from the right is that the left “owns the culture” and that the right has no presence in mass media. This is one of Andrew Klavan’s primary beefs on his podcast. He’s not wrong, you know. We’re constantly bombarded with movies and shows that are overt love songs to the hard-left but we have precious few media projects that are right-leaning.
In a recent interview, renowned financial historian Dr. Niall Ferguson said that he could "guarantee" that "we will have another Bitcoin bubble" and that Bitcoin will increasingly behave like "digital gold."
Thomas Sowell is a noted economist and one of America’s great public intellectuals. He also happens to be black. Last week he told Fox News that in his view systemic racism ‘really has no meaning that can be specified and tested in the way that one tests hypotheses’.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) delayed issuing additional reference documents about school reopenings just as White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany says that “science should not stay in the way of school reopening” and that “the science is on our side here,” citing a recent study.
Writing recently in the New York Times, Stanford Law School professor Michael McConnell takes an optimistic view, not only of the 2020 U.S. Supreme Court term, but of the court’s track record on religious freedom. “In 13 cases involving religion since 2012,” he writes, “the religious side prevailed in 12 of them, sometimes by lopsided majorities.”
The race debate is rapidly descending into a one-note diatribe where white accountability has become the only game in town. White liberal voices now dominate an increasingly febrile narrative but alongside mainstream flagellations about systemic racism and white supremacy, a less hysterical, more nuanced discussion is taking place.
Presumptive Democrat 2020 nominee Joe Biden tweeted Friday it’s “just plain dangerous” for American children to return to school this fall, a statement that goes against the “science” as explained by a number of physicians.
Washington’s policy shift on the South China Sea could embolden Southeast Asian claimant states to take on China with legal action, observers say, after the US rejected most of Beijing’s claims in the strategic waterway as “unlawful” this week.
Just after being promoted to manager of President Trump’ reelection campaign, Bill Stepien issued a statement on Wednesday regarding the strategy being implemented to beat presumptive Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden in November.
The meme of human-caused catastrophic global warming/climate change has now persisted in our world for over 25 years. A corollary meme that the world can only be saved from this impending catastrophe by replacing all fossil fuels with renewable energy, primarily wind and solar, has existed almost as long.
