The following is based on an interview conducted by Murdoch Distinguished Policy Fellow Peter Robinson with the Hoover Institution’s new director, Condoleezza Rice, on Hoover’s flagship broadcast, Uncommon Knowledge, on September 11, 2020.
The China challenge has revived an old and often arid quarrel about the relationship in foreign affairs between ideas and interests. Reconsidering that quarrel in light of the ideas that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) professes and the interests the People’s Republic of China (PRC) pursues provides a fresh understanding of the threats that China poses to freedom.
President Trump’s positive COVID-19 test will likely create substantial turbulence within financial markets. We should expect much higher than normal volatility in equity prices and possibly interest rates while the president and the first lady quarantine, because their COVID test results create new economic and political uncertainty, and uncertainty almost always roils financial markets.
Trump was the midwife of the Abraham Accords. The father was Ali Khamenei, the “Supreme Leader” of Iran, whose imperial ambitions started to force Arabs and Israelis into a historic realignment decades ago.
Philosopher and author Zena Hitz of St. John's College talks about her book, Lost in Thought, with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Hitz defends learning for its own sake--learning that has nothing to do with passing an exam or preparing for a career. For Hitz, learning is a refuge and an essential part of what makes us human.
The president of the National Council on Teacher Quality, Kate Walsh, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss several issues surrounding teachers, including how they are adjusting to online instruction amid Covid-19, how to best prepare young teachers for the profession, and how to teach the history of slavery in the classroom.
In a recent blog post, I wrote: Aside for non-economists: Why would reductions in income tax rates on corporations and on high-income individuals even be expected, at a theoretical level, to increase real wages? By increasing the incentive to invest in capital. The greater the capital to labor ratio, the higher are real wages.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics data on employment and unemployment in September were released this morning. It’s not nearly as good news as in the last few months, of course, something you would expect as we get closer to full employment. But it’s good news nevertheless.
Hoover Institution fellow H. R. McMaster discusses his new book Battlegrounds: The Fight to Defend the Free World, and argues that American foreign policy has been misconceived, inconsistent, and poorly implemented since the end of the Cold War.
HR McMaster was national security adviser for a little more than a year. His struggles to work with Donald Trump have been widely reported. After a year, the blowhard mogul fired the military intellectual – by tweet.
I had the pleasure of recently speaking with Dr. Shelby Steele. Steele is a bestselling author (The Content of Our Character, White Guilt), speaker, and fellow at the prestigious Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He has won many awards, is respected by all who know him, and has a unique view of African American culture today.
Unless you're in the Diaspora, a Hellenophile or news junkie, the simmering tension between Greece and Turkey over rights to the Aegean and East Mediterranean and plans to drill for energy there might seem of little consequence. But the stakes are high.
In a Saturday op-ed for The Hill, economist and professor Lee E. Ohanian, a senior fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution, predicted that Donald Trump’s recent coronavirus diagnosis would likely generate “substantial turbulence” in the world’s financial markets.
Covid-19 outbreak inside the White House brings into sharp relief the literal nightmare scenarios that constitutional and presidential scholars have warned about for decades.
Golden autumn sunshine shone down on Washington on Saturday to illuminate a US capital upended as Donald Trump began his first full day in hospital battling coronavirus amid a presidential election thrown into chaos.
Today a scholars' brief was filed at the Supreme Court supporting cert in Schulz v. Presbytery of Seattle, a case about whether the Religion Clauses require courts to apply "neutral principles" in religious property disputes.
It began as a poll-tested slogan repeated ad nauseum by those who want to subject us to a one-size-fits-all health insurance program controlled by the federal government, known as “Medicare for All.”
