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How Much Stimulus?

by Steve Steinvia Policy Review
Friday, February 1, 2013

Steve Stein on End This Depression Now by Paul Krugman and Red Ink by David Wessel

Technopism pie

Clouds over Technopolis

by Niall Fergusonvia Hoover Digest
Friday, January 25, 2013

Technology is marvelous, and marvelously oversold. By Niall Ferguson.

The New New Deal

by Richard A. Epsteinvia Hoover Digest
Friday, January 25, 2013

It’s the spirit of 1932: unsustainable transfers of wealth, vague new “rights” (billed to the taxpayer), and a record of failure. By Richard A. Epstein.

William F. Buckley's Firing Line television series

Thirty-Five More Firing Line DVDs are now available on Amazon.com

Monday, December 17, 2012

The DVDs of thirty-five additional programs from William F. Buckley’s Firing Line television series are now available on Amazon.com. Featured guests on those programs, which date from 1973-1999, include Jimmy Carter, George H. W. Bush, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, Ed Koch, Edward Teller, Milton Friedman, Christopher Hitchens, and Ron Paul. A noteworthy copy of the full version of How Does One Find Faith? with guest Malcolm Muggeridge has also been added.

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"The American Project Is in Danger"

by Charles Murray, Peter M. Robinsonvia Hoover Digest
Friday, October 26, 2012

Charles Murray on the crisis that threatens our very identity as a nation. An interview with Peter Robinson.

Lifting all Boats

by Gary S. Beckervia Hoover Digest
Friday, October 26, 2012

How the quest for profit improves human welfare. By Gary S. Becker.

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More Audiovisual Materials about California Digitized and Online

Thursday, October 18, 2012

Eleven more historic California recordings from Hoover collections have been digitized for California Light and Sound, a project of the California Preservation Program. The recordings shed light on Herbert Hoover, Ronald Reagan, Proposition 13, the San Francisco Giants, the proposed peripheral canal, and the construction of the Bay Area Rapid Transit System (BART).

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The Thinkers

The Businessman and the Intellectual

by James W. Ceaservia Hoover Digest
Friday, October 26, 2012

Despite endless debate about the issues, the presidential contest comes down to character. By James W. Ceaser.

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The New Yorker's Closet Libertarian

by Richard A. Epsteinvia Defining Ideas (Hoover Institution)
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
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Anderson discusses the right to own property on reservations

via Property and Environment Research Center (PERC)
Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Terry Anderson, the John and Jean De Nault Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and executive director of PERC (the Property and Environment Research Center), points out that Native Americans and people of the First Nations have a rich cultural heritage, including institutions that reward individual initiative. The tribes must take that initiative and force Congress to give tribal nations the rights to own and manage their properties.

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