The Scheinman collection brings to life the story of how two friends, a white American and a black Kenyan, helped African democracy bloom. By Tom Shachtman.
...[E]lites are able to indulge themselves in non-judgmental permissiveness toward those selected as mascots, while cracking down with heavy-handed, nanny-state control on others...
Former US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice, the Thomas and Barbara Stephenson Senior Fellow on Public Policy at the Hoover Institution, recently published her memoir, Extraordinary, Ordinary People: A Memoir of Family (Crown Archetype, 2010).
Hoover Institution Press today released Up from the Projects: An Autobiography by Walter Williams. In Up from the Projects, Williams recalls some of the highlights, turning points, and the obstacles he has encountered and overcome during his life.
Thomas Sowell, the Rose and Milton Friedman Senior Fellow on Public Policy at the Hoover Institution, discusses his friend and former Hoover overseer Walter Williams’s latest book, Up from the Projects. Sowell reminisces about Williams’s memoir and notes how his insights are much needed today.
Millions of us shuffle around, sighing that most of what we hear pounded into our brains is either banal or as untrue as it is dangerous to identify it as such. So we ignore it, we the dead souls who live in the world of unmentionable thoughts...