Socialism is finally getting the American honeymoon it never got in the last century. But American federalism’s division of power between a national government and fifty sovereign states makes difficult, if not impossible, the unified economic planning necessary to supplant capitalism. Decentralization of power, the Constitution’s Framers hoped, would not just promote government effectiveness but would also protect individual liberty by encouraging Washington and the states to check each other.
Among the most frequent of claims made by the Chinese party-state, is that its social system is more competent, stable, and just than that in the liberal West, and particularly America. Pointing to the continuing economic and social devastation in the United States of the coronavirus pandemic that began in Wuhan, China, and the more recent widespread demonstrations and riots, Beijing asserts that what it calls “socialism with Chinese characteristics” is better suited to deal with disasters both natural and manmade, not to mention the quotidian running of government.
America is a free and open society. Our freedoms allow us to change our government’s course if it is not performing up to our expectations. We should celebrate these freedoms and work to restore confidence in our democratic institutions.
A century ago, amid the devastation of World War I, Herbert Hoover established a collection of library and archival materials at Stanford University devoted to the causes and consequences of war. Founded as the Hoover War Collection in 1919, the institution has evolved into one of the world’s premier research centers devoted to the advanced study of politics, economics, and international affairs.
Lest you think that a day can’t go by without President Trump being on the receiving end of media heat, we now have the Washington press corps tearing into Trump for turning a Tuesday White House Rose Garden ceremony into a political attack against his likely November opponent, former Vice President Joe Biden.
Figuring out how to safely reopen schools this fall was sure to be a hugely complicated logistical and academic challenge. Over the past week President Trump and Secretary DeVos made it exponentially harder by demanding that schools open five days a week at full capacity, never mind that social distancing on buses and classrooms would be impossible.
Hoover Institution fellow Stephen Kotkin weighs in on the validity of Russian president Vladimir Putin’s depiction of the diplomacy in the 1930s leading up to the second world war.
Raging argument in America over whether or not to send our kids back to school. Do you realize how ridiculous this is? We have never, even during the Spanish flu pandemic, we have never done what we are doing now, and we have certainly never been governed by fear. And we now have an entire political party that wants this country shut down as much as it can be — economically, educationally, you name it. It is obscene.
7am hour -- learning about the life of the Bothell Police officer shot and killed by a driver during a traffic stop, officer Jonathan Shoop attended HS in Seattle and graduated from UW before going into the US Coast Guard, police officers aren't seen anymore as humans only as symbols, police supporters are gathering at Seattle City Hall today from 9am-5pm, Kanye 2020 is officially unplugged.
We are living in a peculiarly paradoxical age. A time when it has never been easier to have access to free speech, and yet, simultaneously, a time when it has never been easier to be abused, sidelined, and “cancelled” for speaking one’s mind.
The declaration to the end of the Korean War is a part of establishing the peace regime and it is directly linked to the denuclearization negotiations.
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Thursday, July 16, 2020
In this special episode, ASPI’s executive director, Peter Jennings, talks with Walkley award winning journalist and ASPI senior fellow Stan Grant, who will be hosting ASPI’s conference series, ‘Strategic Vision 2020’, starting on 22 July.
