Social media mobs. Cancel culture. Campus speech policing. These are all part of life in today's America. Freedom of expression is in crisis. Truly open discourse—the debates, exchange of ideas and arguments on which the health and flourishing of a democratic republic crucially depend—is increasingly rare. Ideologues demonize opponents to block debates on important issues and to silence people with whom they disagree.
Democrats and their media allies like to paint Donald Trump as a foreign-policy catastrophe. Even some conservatives have joined the angry chorus. Neocon stalwart Eliot Cohen, for example, has attacked Trump’s policies as “deeply misguided” and a strategic disaster.
Hoover Institution fellow Scott Atlas explains that college athletes are in the best situation to safely play their sport during the coronavirus pandemic.
History professor Norman M. Naimark ’66 M.A ’68 Ph.D. ’72 received the Norris and Carol Hundley Award — one of the most prestigious awards for books on historical subjects — on Friday for his 2019 book “Stalin and the Fate of Europe: The Postwar Struggle for Sovereignty.”
Dr. Scott Atlas, senior fellow at Stanford University Hoover Institution and an outspoken critic of coronavirus lockdowns, has joined the White House staff as an adviser to President Trump.
Last year the Business Roundtable issued a grand-sounding ‘Statement on the Purpose of a Corporation’, which basically rejected the quaint idea that a company’s primary duty was to its owners (the shareholders) and replaced it with a commitment to ‘stakeholder capitalism’.
Last Friday, Michael Auslin, a former AEI colleague, wrote a timely opinion piece in Financial Times in which he urgently called for a latter-day financial or tech giant to “step into [JP] Morgan’s shoes.” Warning correctly that “historical analogies are tricky,” Auslin recounts the 1907 Wall Street financial crisis during which Morgan put his own fortune at risk and led other financiers and federal officials to stem the panic, thus heading off “damage to the US economy [that] might have been catastrophic.”
College athletes are in the best situation to safely play their sport during the coronavirus pandemic, Hoover Institution senior fellow Dr. Scott Atlas told “The Story” Monday night.
It looks like Sweden is over the COVID-19 circumstance. And if that’s the case, then it portends good news for the rest of the world. Scott Atlas is now part of the coronavirus task force meeting with the president. And he is countering Fauci.
