The so-called "debates," among too many Republicans to have a debate, are yet another painful sign of how much words and ideas have degenerated in our times. No one expects these televised sound bites and "gotcha" questions to be anything like the historic Lincoln-Douglas debates on the momentous national issue of slavery.
The third annual Hoover Institution Workshop on Modern China, entitled “China and Its Neighbors: What History Can Tell Policy Makers,” was held during August 3-7, 2015. This year the workshop featured five speakers from the United States and Japan who evaluated the rise of China and assessed China’s impact on neighboring states’ policy planning.
Hoover Institution fellow Terry Anderson discusses his Wall Street Journal piece, “How Trophy Hunting Can Save Lions,” today on the nationally syndicated John Batchelor Show.
A poet and science-fiction buff, Robert Conquest turned to the study of the Soviet Union in the mid-1950s out of dissatisfaction with the quality of analysis he saw at the British Foreign Office. He worked there after World War II in the Information Research Department, a semi-secret office responsible for combating Soviet propaganda.
Hillary Clinton’s absolutely authoritarian environmental policy scheme makes Barack Obama’s audacious clean energy pitch seem timid. On the campaign trail in Ames, Iowa recently, the former Secretary of State said she wanted renewable energy to account for 33 percent of America’s electric power by 2027, 13 percent more than the president proposed last week.
Jeb Bush will criticize Hillary Clinton in a speech Tuesday for her part in the Obama administration's withdrawal of troops from Iraq, resulting in 'tragic consequences.'
