Stanford economist John Taylor last week convened a meeting among some of the world’s most distinguished economists at the Hoover Institution to lay out the second volume of the Handbook of Macroeconomics.
In preparing for a lecture that I need to give that includes a discussion of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, I once again came across the (true) claim that the FISA court (FISC) denies only a miniscule fraction of the requests made of it by the Justice Department.
I’m back from a week’s vacation and pleased to find that ESEA reauthorization is still (if just barely) alive. The release of a compromise bill from Senate HELP Committee Chairman Lamar Alexander and ranking member Patty Murray gives me an excuse to bring back my beloved color-coded ESEA table.
How long will this country remain free? Probably only as long as the American people value their freedom enough to defend it. But how many people today can stop looking at their electronic devices long enough to even think about such things?
Hoover fellow Admiral Gary Roughead's, USN (Ret.) testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee. Roughead discusses US national security interests and objectives in the Asia‐Pacific region and the changes and activity taking place there.
Everyone is right to laud the impressive work of Senate HELP Committee Chairman Lamar Alexander and ranking member Patty Murray in producing a strong bipartisan bill to update the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB).
Hoover fellow William Damon's research explores how young people develop purpose in their civic, work, family and community relationships. Damon notes that encouraging a sense of meaning and purpose in young people often comes down to a "beyond-the-self" way of orienting to the world.
As the debates rage along the Potomac regarding the Iran nuclear framework, ISIS, the Ukraine crisis, the rise of Chinese power and a half dozen other important U.S. foreign policy challenges, how better to think about these problems than to seek council from the two most impressive strategists of the post World War II era – the late Lee Kuan Yew and Henry Kissinger.
Not long ago, in the context of the controversy over Indiana’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act, I complained that corporate America won’t stand up to the increasingly totalitarian tactics of the gay rights movement and its leftist supporters.
