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Analysis and Commentary

Even With Climate Change, The World Isn’t Doomed

by Bjorn Lomborgvia The Wall Street Journal
Thursday, September 23, 2021

[Subscription Required] Humanity has overcome far greater problems before and can do so again.

Analysis and Commentary

Hope For California -- Housing Edition

by John H. Cochranevia The Grumpy Economist
Thursday, September 23, 2021

California has at last passed the first laws overturning some residential zoning restrictions.

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Angelo M. Codevilla, 1943-2021

by Victor Davis Hansonvia Military History in the News
Thursday, September 23, 2021

We of the Hoover Military History Working Group (MHWG) were stunned by the sudden loss of our colleague Angelo Codevilla, who was a charter member of the group, and a frequent incisive contributor to our online journal Strategika. In the past eight years, no one has better represented the aspirations of the Hoover group than Angelo (who had years earlier been a Hoover senior research fellow). He was deeply learned, candid, unapologetic, often controversial, and drew on an encyclopedic array of historical, literary, and cultural knowledge.

In the News

Larry Diamond, Tobias Wolff Speak At Sun Valley Writers’ Conference

featuring Larry Diamondvia Stanford Daily
Wednesday, September 22, 2021

On July 17-20, four award-winning Stanford authors joined dozens of other acclaimed writers from across the nation at the Sun Valley Writers’ Conference entitled Reflections on a Changing World in Sun Valley, Idaho. At the sold-out conference which offered free public webcasts, Stanford authors Larry Diamond, David Eagleman, Sheri Fink and Tobias Wolff discussed their work as well as their insights and concerns about major issues of our time with the hundreds of readers and writers in attendance.

In the News

Exposure Density, Overcrowding And Covid Death Rates: Update

quoting Steven J. Davisvia New Geography
Wednesday, September 22, 2021

In their new book, Harvard economists Edward Glaeser and David Cutler characterize COVID and related issues as an “existential threat to the urban world, because the human proximity that enables contagion is the defining characteristic of the city” (see our review, Survival of the City: The Need to Reopen the Metropolitan Frontier (Review).

In the News

Straight Ahead For Carbon-Use Passport Control

cited Bjorn Lomborgvia The Washington Times
Wednesday, September 22, 2021

Climate activists take their cue from coronavirus authoritarians

In the News

Why The Debt Limit Fight Makes Washington A Stock-Market ‘Wild Card’

cited Steven J. Davisvia Market Watch
Wednesday, September 22, 2021

The potential for another white-knuckle flirtation with default by the U.S. government via a debt-ceiling showdown is helping to raise “policy uncertainty,” analysts noted Wednesday.

In the News

Democrats Seem To Forget That LBJ’s Great Society Was A Gift To The GOP

quoting John H. Cochranevia The Washington Post
Wednesday, September 22, 2021

Fifty-one years ago, a book by two centrist Democrats caused a commotion among their party’s progressives, who resented counsels of restraint. In “The Real Majority,” Richard M. Scammon and Ben J. Wattenberg highlighted a Gallup poll question from February 1968: “Is there any area around here — that is, within a mile — where you would be afraid to walk alone at night?” The “yes” response: men 19 percent, women 50 percent.

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Civilization Requires Deterrence

by Victor Davis Hansonvia American Greatness
Wednesday, September 22, 2021

Deterrence at home and abroad is now dangerously lost.

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Condoleezza Rice To Speak At Alfred E. Smith Dinner Oct. 21

mentioning Condoleezza Ricevia Catholic New York
Wednesday, September 22, 2021

For three-quarters of a century, the annual Alfred E. Smith Memorial Dinner has been “the cultural event of the fall season,” and this year’s edition promises to be no different, with Condoleezza Rice, who served as U.S. secretary of state and national security adviser under President George W. Bush, serving as dinner speaker.

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