With summer over and Americans (in theory, at least) returning to work, school, and familiar routines, what lies ahead for the remainder of 2020? Hoover Institution senior fellows Niall Ferguson. H. R. McMaster, and John Cochrane examine what might ensue in the way of pandemic, economics, geopolitics, and a contentious presidential election.
For now Joe Biden’s best hope is that some Emerald City media lackey does not play the role of the tiny dog Toto, rip away the curtain, and reveal the tiny man and his machinery behind the projection.
Once upon a time, a man had an idea for a documentary on free-market ideas. Then that man was introduced to Milton Friedman. The result of their collaboration was a wildly successful book and PBS series, Free to Choose, capturing Friedman's view of the world, how markets work, and the role of individual liberty in free-market economies. The man behind that documentary, Robert Chitester, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about how that documentary came about and Chitester's long-time friendship and work with Milton and Rose Friedman.
I can’t say with certainty how the American presidential election will turn out, but this much I’m willing to wager: you won’t see President Trump in Norway, come December of next year, collecting a Nobel Peace Prize.
A Post Doctoral Researcher at the Harvard Kennedy School, M. Danish Shakeel, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss their new study, which shows greater gains in student achievement by students in charter schools than their counterparts in traditional district schools.
As soon as children discover that the world isn’t nice, they want to make it nicer. And wouldn’t a world where everybody shares everything be nice? Aw … kids are so tender-hearted.
There’s one more problem with solar power: peak electricity use in California occurs in the late afternoon and early evening, when solar power is small or zero.
On the (almost) 10-year anniversary of 9/11, I gave a speech at Western Kentucky University. The speech was titled “Lessons Not Learned from 9/11: An Economic, Numerate, and Constitutional Perspective."
Hoover Institution fellow Ayaan Hirsi Ali discusses the violence and rioters; which Hirsi Ali is vehemently against. Hirsi Ali believes in this country, and she believes that we need to stand up to the people attacking the US. Hirsi Ali said we need to work together to make things better instead of fighting and tearing things down.
If the coronavirus pandemic has proved anything it is that most Americans and their leaders are more concerned with their safety than with preserving their freedom.
The Hoover Institution at Stanford University is one of the most prominent think tanks in America, and its fellows are some the most accomplished in their respective fields. But that doesn’t matter to Big Tech. YouTube recently removed a June 23 interview its senior fellow Dr. Scott Atlas did with Hoover because it goes against the World Health Organization’s position on the Wuhan coronavirus.
Thunder shattered the evening quiet and lightning lit up the sky outside my office. I stayed at my computer feeling secure that the surge protector would manage the extra load.
Dr. Scott Atlas, an adviser to the White House on COVID-19, has tweeted "Truth will prevail. #FactsMatter" after dozens of his former colleagues signed a letter denouncing claims he made about the pandemic.
There are new stories every day on the ways zealous social-justice warriors who are ‘woke’ to all the world’s ills make life miserable for anyone who disagrees with them. There is, however, at least one apostate from the mob — former NYU professor Michael Rectenwald. For most of his life, he subscribed to leftist beliefs, but about five years ago turned away in revulsion.
The expression ‘confidence-building measures’ is magical; any mention of CBMs triggers immediate goodwill in our polity and leads to a sense of bonhomie. The five-point agreement between foreign ministers of India and China, S Jaishankar and Wang Yi, ends with the two sides deciding to ‘expedite work to conclude confidence-building measures to maintain and enhance peace and tranquillity in the border areas.’
This year’s school closures won’t just result in the loss of students’ academic skills; it could negatively impact the economy for the rest of the 21st century, new research predicts.
White House coronavirus adviser Dr. Scott Atlas says President Donald Trump has not minimized the impact and seriousness of the coronavirus pandemic - and has "no influence" on testing and COVID-19 vaccine development.
In The Soviet Tragedy, Martin Malia describes many Soviet citizens feeling great relief at the outbreak of World War II. These were people less than twenty years removed from devastating wars, so they were unlikely to be naïve to the horrors, yet many welcomed the news of war because, as Malia describes, war provided a coherent, tangible reality again, in contract to the schizophrenic insanity of communism.
Due to much of the western United States being naturally arid, high mountain scrub desert, grassland, and dry forest, wildfires are an unfortunate fact of life. They always have been and likely always will be.
Democrats and Republicans alike can agree on one thing -- this election will determine what kind of future American citizens will endure. Trump promises to Make America Great Again. Biden promises to Build Back Better.
As schools worldwide have sent students home to protect against the spread of Covid-19, the impacts of the time spent out of the classroom have begun to come into focus.
In Oregon, wildfires have incinerated several communities this week, and thousands of people have evacuated their homes. In Washington State, a fire hit the town of Malden so quickly that deputies drove through the streets screaming for residents to leave. In Colorado, a 100,000-acre blaze was slowed only by a rare September snowstorm.
Thank goodness President Trump resisted the most panicked authoritarian responses to Covid-19 imposed by some U.S. governors. But he’s now facing questions over a Feb. 7 interview, included in a new Bob Woodward book, in which Mr. Trump said that Covid was deadlier than the flu.
