Americans are anxious to get back to work and to send their children to school. The science backs them up. We have learned a lot over the past months, and we are putting that knowledge to use. We are capitalizing on the advanced capabilities that we have developed, as we redouble our efforts to protect vulnerable populations and deliver new and effective treatments in record time.
The world is on a hinge of history. The future is going to be different from the past in major ways. At the end of the Second World War, people such as Dean Acheson, George Marshall, and Harry Truman sat atop another hinge of history, though they may not have realized it at the time—you can know something is important without knowing exactly what it is that you are dealing with. But when they looked around at the devastation that had been wrought across the globe, with tens of millions of lives lost and the economies of allies and adversaries alike in ruins, they saw how the United States could work with both to help.
Nothing is stranger than the notion, widely held, that Russia is a newcomer to the Middle East. After extending its rule to what is now called southern Ukraine in the late eighteenth century its territories bordered on the vast Ottoman Empire.
The Republican party has no 2020 platform. They refer people looking for one to the 2016 version. That goes for education along with everything else. The Trump-Pence campaign website doesn’t display policy positions, either, though there’s a section on “promises kept” that includes one skimpy page on education.
On Saturday, the federal government’s Center for Disease Control will issue a new regulation barring eviction of millions of residential tenants around the country. If it survives likely legal challenges, the new policy would set a dangerous precedent undermining federalism, the separation of powers, and property rights. Conservatives, in particular, will have reason to regret it when a Democratic president inherits the same sweeping powers.
Hoover Institution fellow Scott Atlas says schools are low-risk environments and keeping schools closed is actually incredibly harmful to children and their development.
Hoover Institution fellow Scott Atlas explains how he has been contributing to the White House Coronavirus Task Force, and what the task force is working on to combat coronavirus and keep Americans safe.
Hoover Institution fellow Victor Davis Hanson gives a lecture at Hillsdale College on Wednesday titled “Plague, Panic, and Protests — The Weird Election Year of 2020.”
The US historian Niall Ferguson is a modern Cassandra. His utterances are prophecies waiting on the tip of time, begging to be believed. For example, his book The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World appeared in 2008 and foretold a crash in US financial markets. Soon afterwards, Lehman Brothers went bankrupt and Merrill Lynch crashed.
What would have been unthinkable, and perhaps unforgivable in polite conversation 10 years ago, has become lately a regular phrase on the lips of many — possible civil war in the near future.
The U.S. national existence has extended through nearly 25 percent of one century, two full centuries and 20 percent of a fourth. Now, just six years shy of a quarter of a millennium old, the world’s oldest constitutional democracy has many old European anxieties, including this: Elites are inevitable; therefore, so are populist resentments.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson always had a fondness for Winston Churchill and a more than incidental similarity in gusto, mannerisms and even physique, at least until his recent health kick.
Former national security advisor H.R. McMaster will deliver University of Puget Sound’s fall 2020 Susan Resneck Pierce Lecture in Public Affairs and the Arts on Sept. 8, at 7:30 p.m.
Former U.S. national security advisor H.R. McMaster joins Washington Post national security reporter Ellen Nakashima on Tuesday, Sept. 29 at 11:00 a.m. ET to discuss his forthcoming book, “Battlegrounds: The Fight to Defend the Free World,” how the global pandemic affects the most pressing foreign policy challenges and America’s standing in the world today.
