A Wall Street Journal Oped with Andy Atkeson, summarizing many points already made on this blog. Greece suffered a run on its banks, closing them on June 29. Payments froze and the economy was paralyzed. Greek banks reopened on July 20 with the help of the European Central Bank.
Some Democratic Party groups are renouncing their once-egalitarian idols, the renaissance genius Thomas Jefferson and the populist Andrew Jackson. Both presidents, some two centuries ago, owned slaves.
What’s taught to American children is often controversial nowadays, and our schools will forever be buffeted by the cultural waves that roil our universities. But in that storm, the College Board deserves a cheer for trying to stabilize the vessel known as Advanced Placement U.S. History (APUSH).
Last year, the College Board released a comprehensive framework for teaching Advanced Placement American history (APUSH). It was an earnest effort to help high-school teachers understand what students should learn, but content-wise it was pretty awful.
Yogi Berra supposedly said: “It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future.” The baseball legend’s also credited with: “You can observe a lot just by watching.” On that note, here are five things I’ll be watching for, once Thursday night’s Republican debate commences.
Is there a way to save the Greek people without saving the socialist government structure of Greece? Yes, according to an op-ed in today’s WSJ by UCLA economist Andrew Atkeson and my Hoover colleague John Cochrane.
Once a child is enrolled in school, the time for homework starts. Sending children home from school with homework is a long tradition that has come under criticism by some psychologists and writers as being a form of punishment.
On July 29 Robert Service, keynote speaker for the 2015 Hoover Institution Workshop on Totalitarian Regimes, delivered a lecture entitled “Looking at Both Sides: Why Did the Cold War End as It Did?” Service is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and a fellow of Saint Anthony’s College, Oxford.
Friction between China and Japan over sovereignty for the resource-rich Diaoyu Islands has escalated in recent years. Research by Stanford graduate student Xiang Zhai, a former Silas Palmer Fellow at the Hoover Institution, reveals new details about the dispute that might help resolve it. Zhai used documents from the Hoover Institution Library and Archives. He was introduced to the diaries as Hsiao-ting Lin's research assistant. The diaries were never "declassified."
Aug. 6 marks one of America's most important anniversaries, remarkable for what happened on that date in 1945 and for what did not happen subsequently. What did happen was that the Enola Gay, an American B-29 bomber, dropped Little Boy, a uranium-based atomic bomb, on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
Hoover Institution fellow Condoleezza Rice discusses the importance of EdPolicy Leaders Online, a series of free, self-paced online education reform courses designed specifically for policymakers.
The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Library today announced that former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and the Ranking Member of the House Armed Services Committee, Democrat Adam Smith of Washington, will receive the Ronald Reagan Peace Through Strength Award at this year's Reagan National Defense Forum.
Countries like Singapore with ageing populations might want to consider formulating immigration policy with a view to attracting young entrepreneurs, a prominent American economist said yesterday. Stanford University economist Edward Lazear said his research shows that rapidly ageing countries tend to have lower rates of entrepreneurship, which in turn could hit economic growth.
Mayor Bill de Blasio’s radical dreams are leading straight to chaos. However we may yearn for a politician whose worldview springs straight from his reason, his grasp of history and human nature, and his sense that politics is the art of the possible, not the ideal, what we usually get is a mix of half-baked ideology, hungry ambition, weaselly opportunism, and some inner wound that only the roar of a crowd or the cooing of sycophants can soothe.
The battle of Chaeronea was fought in 338 B.C. around what is now the first week of August. The battle stamped out the last sparks of Greek resistance to Macedonian hegemony and bestowed upon young Alexander the Great a reputation as a capable battlefield commander.
Even before the first sound bite is thrown at the “Clash in Cleveland” Thursday night, Donald Trump has already become its marquee draw — one who has turned the first GOP televised presidential debate into must-see TV.
The Republican presidential race has so far focused more on personality and bombast than on policy. With the first GOP debate Thursday night, we hope that will begin to change.
New York is one of dozens of states that adopted the Common Core standards in recent years. Soon, it will be a part of another trend: states conducting a formal review of them. At least 18 states have taken steps to revise, rebrand, or review the standards since adopting them in 2010, according to the Council of Chief State School Officers.
The Republican presidential debates will test the speaking skills of the candidates as they face tough, even nasty questions. In a response to how he handles questions from the media, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger once said he approaches the task this way: “What questions do you have for my answers?”
Only a small number of top-performing high school students from low-income backgrounds get admitted to elite colleges. This so-called undermatching problem has gained the attention of academic researchers, the White House and the news media in recent years.
Markets are on alert ahead of the UK's new economic touchstone, a Super Thursday of economic data. From this Thursday, the monthly rate decision and the minutes of the Bank's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meeting will be released together, without the normal fortnightly gap.
A $5 million gift from investment executive John P. Birkelund, a member of Princeton's Class of 1952, has established the Program in History and the Practice of Diplomacy at the University.
A Renaissance-style thinker, Robert Conquest was a prolific Soviet historian who became the conscience of an era in the war of ideas between communism and Western democracy. As a poet, his work was considered among the most influential in British literary circles.
British-born historian Robert Conquest, whose influential works on Soviet history shed light on the terror during the Stalin era, has died. He was 98. Conquest's wife, Elizabeth Neece, said he died Monday of pneumonia in Palo Alto.
British-born historian Robert Conquest, whose influential works on Soviet history shed light on the terror during the Stalin era, has died. He was 98. Mr. Conquest’s wife, Elizabeth Neece, said he died Monday of pneumonia in Palo Alto.
