The Hoover Institution Press released Making Failure Feasible, which challenges current US banking policy and proposes bold monetary reforms, including adding a new Chapter 14 to the U.S. Bankruptcy Code.
U.S. citrus farmers are feeling squeezed by a recent decision of the ultra-liberal San Francisco-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. A three-judge panel of the court in September vacated, or invalidated, the EPA’s approval of sulfoxaflor, a highly effective new insecticide used widely on citrus.
On Tuesday, September 29th, Stanford undergraduate student and 2014 Silas Palmer fellow Benjamin Musachio presented a talk entitled “The American Right’s Response to Boris Pasternak’s Doctor Zhivago” at the international conference “Poetry and Politics in the Twentieth Century: Boris Pasternak, His Family, and His Novel Doctor Zhivago.”
Silas Palmer fellow and Duke University art historian Kelly C. Tang discusses her work in the Zhang Shuqi, Jack Chen, and Helen Foster Snow collections at Hoover archives.
A little-known film of Herbert Hoover’s visit to Poland in 1946 is available to view on YouTube. The footage taken during the former presidents time in Warsaw, the capital city devastated during the Warsaw Uprising and its aftermath, is a rare look at the conditions in the city soon after the end of World War II.
California Gov. Jerry Brown’s signing Tuesday of what is billed as the nation’s toughest equal pay law drew loud applause but also alarm over the additional government regulation threatening to accelerate the state’s business exodus — with implications for Tinseltown too.
Leadership: In his self-congratulatory memoir, "Courage To Act," former Fed chief Ben Bernanke takes credit for saving the economy after the financial crisis.
