Of late it seems our nation is neither one nor indivisible. The divide between red and blue America is palpable, extreme and so rancorous it sometimes spills into violence. Bipartisanship is largely defunct and our nation’s legislative branch essentially frozen.
by Larry Diamond, James Fishkin, Alice Siu, Norman Bradburnvia Cambridge University Press
Tuesday, July 27, 2021
This paper is positioned at the intersection of two literatures: partisan polarization and deliberative democracy. It analyzes results from a national field experiment in which more than 500 registered voters were brought together from around the country to deliberate in depth over a long weekend on five major issues facing the country.
History is replete with examples of societies in crises that either imploded or were destroyed, through internal and external forces—as well as those that met such dangers and endured.
interview with Niall Fergusonvia Conversations with Tyler
Wednesday, July 28, 2021
Hoover Institution fellow Niall Ferguson discusses the difference between English and Scottish pessimism and why there is not more interest in studying the past.
(Part 1) Hoover Institution fellow Richard Epstein discusses his Defining Ideas article "Clueless On Competition." Part 2 of the interview is available here.
The plot was audacious: Agents of the Islamic Republic of Iran would kidnap an American citizen on American soil. Masih Alinejad, an Iranian-born journalist and human rights activist, was to be grabbed, spirited out of Brooklyn to Venezuela, and then on to Tehran where she would have been imprisoned, tortured, and, almost certainly, executed.
The U.S. economy stands to gain $160 billion a year in extra output from a successful national high-speed internet plan that would boost labor productivity and allow more people to work from home, according to new research.
