World-class universities are among America’s most treasured institutions. Unfortunately, several universities have recently announced their plans to shut down in response to new COVID-19 cases among students. That’s wrong: Universities should stay open, even when they see an increase in cases.
Already plagued by a pandemic and a sickly economy, is California’s spate of wildfires and unhealthy air the tipping point for its disgruntled residents? Hoover Institution Senior Fellows Niall Ferguson, John Cochrane and Victor Davis Hanson discuss whether California can be fixed, or if it's time for a full-fledged “CalExit” to elsewhere in America.
California’s Proposition 16 on the November ballot would restore racial and gender-based preferences in college admissions, public contracting, and public hiring. These preferences ended in 1996, when Californians voted by a two-thirds majority to amend the state constitution and prohibit race and gender preferences.
A group of Stanford faculty recently circulated, and then posted, an open letter objecting to my Hoover colleague Scott Atlas, who serves as a senior adviser to the Administration on health policy. Read the letter. Then come back for a little reading comprehension test.
The Grumpy Economist podcast is back, with some thought on the debt issues from my last posts here and here.David Andofatto had some final thoughts at macro mania, with which I mostly agree. Yes a twitter/blog debate in macroeconomics produces agreement!
The former NATO Deputy Secretary General argues that arms control is not “dead,” as it seems fashionable to proclaim these days, but has three futures when in the national interest: immediate successes, such as extending New START, to regain momentum; medium-term, to confront new and complex issues; and distant, to embrace new technologies.
Hoover Institution fellow Scott Atlas talks about the attacks on him, and notes that the hyperbole is very destructive. Atlas says that he as well as the White House are doing everything possible to keep people safe.
The repercussions of reopening universities during a pandemic were abundantly clear. There was no surefire way of knowing where students had been in the interim between Spring quarantine and the start of the Fall semester, nor was there an effective means of tracing with whom students had come into contact. The risks associated with reopening schools were incontestable, and yet, we reopened.
Reflecting on the recent anniversary of September 11, Ayaan Hirsi Ali opened up on "Tucker Carlson Tonight" about what "really freaks" her out about 2020.
Speaking to Lily Eskelen Garcia, the president of the National Education Association, Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden said he had the same feeling that the NEA has about charter schools, adding that no “private charter school will receive a penny of federal money. None.”
Is the worst yet to come for India’s economy? Even as opinions remain divided on the issue, a recent ET Online poll has thrown up some interesting observations.
Covid-19-induced lockdowns were expected to take a toll on India’s economy, like anywhere else. But the first-quarter GDP numbers paint a much grimmer picture than expected.
We’ve said it before: Google is evil. Straight up. Full stop. More recently, we also covered the deeply dishonest tech giant’s efforts to suppress or silence conservative voices and thereby damage Donald Trump’s chances for reelection. So it’s no surprise that Google’s YouTube vehicle is getting in on the act.
[Subscription Required] American incomes rose sharply and poverty fell in the final year of the country’s decadelong economic expansion, according to Census Bureau figures released Tuesday.
