If the latest polls are any indication, Joe Biden is on track to win the popular vote in the upcoming US presidential election by a substantial margin, and an Electoral College reversal of that outcome, like in 2016, is unlikely. But the polls have been wrong before, including in 2016.
Ordinarily, my writing appears in this space mid to late in the week. But a Tuesday election—and the uncertainty that may come as California’s vote tally vacillates in the days (and weeks) after—leads me to believe that the safer approach is to concentrate on pre–Election Day California.
Joseph Conrad said this about his work: “My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel--it is, before all, to make you see.” The same should be said of Fouad Ajami who through his life and writing helped many, like myself, hear, feel and see the rich beauty and diversity of the Middle East.
Rob Wiblin, host of the 80,000 Hours podcast, interviews EconTalk host Russ Roberts about charity, the reliability of data to inform decision-making, and utilitarianism.
An assistant professor of political science at Boston College, Michael Hartney, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss a new study by Hartney and Leslie Finger, which links school district decisions on whether to reopen schools to how those areas voted in the 2016 presidential election.
What’s the appeal to people? Obviously I agree with you when you talk about a liberal society being a good one. The idea of intellectual or ideological pluralism, I’m all in. But people who are saying, “That’s a false front for a system that is rigged against trans people, against black people, and against other types of racial, ethnic, ideological, or sexual minorities”—how do you engage them when they are not interested necessarily in hearing what you have to say?
Hoover Institution fellow Shelby Steele discusses his film What Killed Michael Brown?, as well as the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement, and the reason President Trump and his supporters are so often labeled as racist.
Hoover Institution fellow John Yoo explores the relationship between freedom of speech and election integrity, particularly as it applies to social media policy.
n the final years of the Cold War, Secretary of State George P. Shultz negotiated the first arms-control treaty in history to eliminate an entire class of nuclear weapons, a crowning achievement of President Ronald Reagan’s tenure and the start of a new era of nuclear de-escalation.
My son's school, located near a polling place, is hosting online-only classes on Election Day and the day before. It's doing so "out of an abundance of caution," despite making a successful transition from a hybrid schedule to optional full-time in-person teaching, because supporters of America's two political death cults can't be trusted to behave themselves when encountering one another on the way to vote.
Tax policy is an important component of the coronavirus economic recovery, which is complicated by the expiration of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act beginning in 2022, and culminating in 2026 when taxes increase for most Americans.
As political polarization has grown in recent years, the path of US economic policy increasingly depends on which party holds office, write Northwestern’s Scott R. Baker, Stanford PhD candidate Aniket Baksy, Stanford’s Nicholas Bloom and Jonathan A. Rodden, and Chicago Booth’s Steven J. Davis.
