Hoover Senior Fellow John Cogan's book The High Cost of Good Intentions: A History of U.S. Federal Entitlement Programs has won the 2018 Hayek Book Prize.
Congressional staffers interacted with Hoover fellows and learned about a wide array of policy perspectives at a recent workshop. Now in its second year, the Stuart Family Congressional Fellowship Program drew twenty-three staffers from Congress to the Stanford campus during April 3–5. With applications to the program almost doubling since last year, the selected attendees reflected a diversity in party affiliation, job functions, and areas of expertise.
When the National Assessment of Education Progress results are released on Tuesday, reporters, educators, and policy wonks will have a lot to digest. Over the past several weeks, I’ve examined recent trends at the national, state, and local levels. First let me review the highlights, then identify seven stories to watch when the new data go live.
Llewellyn Thompson’s quiet diplomacy and shrewd counsel relaxed Cold War tensions and made him the “unsung hero” of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Bertrand M. Patenaude reviews “The Kremlinologist” by Jenny Thompson and Sherry Thompson.
White House economist Peter Navarro, whose boss claimed credit when the stock market was rising, now thinks it should be ignored. After Monday’s plunge, he said, “The market is reacting in a way which does not comport with the ... unbelievable strength in President Trump’s economy.” Rest easy, Navarro advised: “The economy is as strong as an ox.”
Women have been complaining since the original Adams family was evicted from the Garden of Eden that “a good man is hard to find.” Despite radical feminist mockery of the very idea of “manliness,” that men are natural sexual predators, most women, with very few exceptions, still want one.
Since entering Stanford in September, I have taken five courses in Stanford’s economics department. All of them have been taught by men. In fact, each of the six core economics courses — Econ 1, Econ 102A, Econ 102B, Econ 50, Econ 51 and Econ 52 — were taught by men during the 2017-18 academic year.
While people around the world were inspired by the resilience, fearlessness and savvy of the students who created a national gun-control movement in the wake of the Parkland shooting, American right-wing leaders looked at these kids and saw evidence of the urgency to destroy public education and replace it with religious private schools and charter schools.
Former U.S. Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul will discuss recent events in the news concerning Russia at Princeton University next week. McFaul will give a public talk on Wednesday, April 11, at 4:30 p.m. in Arthur Lewis Auditorium, Robertson Hall on the Princeton University campus, the university announced.
Black students continue to be disciplined at school more often and more harshly than their white peers, often for similar infractions, according to a new report by Congress’s nonpartisan watchdog agency, which counters claims fueling the Trump administration’s efforts to re-examine discipline policies of the Obama administration.
