On Friday I read the transcript of the translation of President’s Xi’s remarks with President Obama to leave a possible gap in what China and the United States agreed to in the announced cyber deal on Friday.
Monday, September 28, 2015 to Friday, October 2, 2015
From September 28 through October 2, Stanford will host the international conference “Poetry and Politics in the Twentieth Century: Boris Pasternak, His Family, and His Novel Doctor Zhivago,” the largest ever dedicated to this Nobel Prize–winning twentieth-century Russian writer. An exhibition of Doctor Zhivago rare first editions from Hoover and Stanford as well as the private collection of Paolo Mancosu will be displayed in the Hoover Tower during the conference.
Ahmed the clockmaker and Columbia’s Mattress Girl are reminders that there are careerist advantages to becoming a victim of religious, racial, or sexual prejudice.
Deflation returns to Japan. Tyler Cowen has a thoughtful Marginal Revolution post, expressing puzzlment. Scott Sumner discussion here, and Financial Times coverage.
The firebrand historian on the ‘inconsequential quibbles’ of the left, our culture of Correct Politicalness and and why Henry Kissinger is misunderstood.
When Lewis and Clark crossed through Montana, they encountered an extraordinary cornucopia of wildlife. Most of that ecosystem and the animals that once thrived there are gone. But a non-profit wants to bring it all back.
In my earlier post on the cybersecurity portions of the summit, I noted the importance of an authoritative public Chinese statement on the substance of the agreement between China and the United States.
In this fifth book in their series Killing, Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard begin with the death of “the former leader of the free world, the man who defeated Soviet communism and ended the Cold War.”
Yesterday, according to the U.S. Fact Sheet, the United States and China agreed that “neither country’s government will conduct or knowingly support cyber-enabled theft of intellectual property, including trade secrets or other confidential business information, with the intent of providing competitive advantages to companies or commercial sectors.”
If you think that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA, also known as Obamacare) is bad because of its expense, the distortions it causes in the labor market, its failure to provide people what they really want, and its highly unequal treatment of people in similar situations, wait until you read John C. Goodman's A Better Choice: Healthcare Solutions for America.
From the campaigns of Bernie Sanders to Donald Trump, America is experiencing a populist moment. Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo has apparently noticed and is seeking to ride the wave by standing with parents against Common Core standards.
This note is based on the White House Fact Sheet. Cybersecurity- The United States and China agree that timely responses should be provided to requests for information and assistance concerning malicious cyber activities.
This I did not expect. The D.C. Circuit has granted en banc review in the latest round of Bahlul litigation. That means that June 2015 panel opinion which garnered so much discussion is now kaput.
Stanford scholar Larry Diamond says that it was probably inevitable that freedom and democracy would level off after roughly 30 years of nearly continuous expansion.
In the days of American power and glory from the Civil War to World War II, a soldier could win the Congressional Medal of Honor by slaying unconscionable numbers of the enemy without needing also to save any comrades in the process.
Pope Francis’ own native Argentina was once among the leading economies of the world, before it was ruined by the kind of ideological notions he is now promoting around the world.
The US Secretary of State, John Kerry, and his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov, have met to discuss the crisis in Syria, as have the defence ministers Ashton Carter and Sergey Shoygu, and I should like to spell out what Russia is seeking in our policy in the region.
