Maybe a recent binge-watch is to blame, but l wonder: Why isn’t Reese Witherspoon campaigning for California governor Gavin Newsom, the subject of next week’s recall election here in the Golden State?
The Hoover Education Success Initiative (HESI) will launch a six-part webinar series this fall that explores how public education can improve moving forward given the ongoing disruption of in-person instruction caused by COVID-19-inspired restrictions, as well as foundations of the system that needed reform prior to the pandemic.
Dr. Scott Atlas, former chief of neuroradiology at Stanford University Medical Center and a senior fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution, called a recent study purporting to measure the effect of masking on curbing the spread of Covid-19 in Bangladeshi villages "extremely weak tea" during a Fox News appearance earlier this month.
Election officials are coming under unprecedented attack for doing their jobs. Some states are attempting to criminalize the exercise of these officials’ trained professional judgments; some officials have been the target of threats to themselves and their families.
On September 2, the Congressional Budget Office published an estimate of the amount of additional tax revenues the Internal Revenue Service would reap if its budget were increased by a total of $80 billion over a 10-year period.
In his September 4 guest essay in the New York Times, “Good News: There’s a Labor Shortage,” MIT economist David Autor presents a mix of good reasoning, error, and confusion.
A friend and I went to see the San Francisco Giants play the Milwaukee Brewers in San Francisco last Thursday. Great news: the Giants won with an exciting bottom of the 8th inning. (Not so great for my friend, who grew up in Wisconsin and is a Brewers fan.)
On July 28 (electronic) and July 29 (print edition), the Wall Street Journal published an article by Charley Hooper and me on ivermectin. At our request, the Journal published a correction that we provided on the evening of July 28 and our letter to the editor. The letter to the editor is appended below.
The ethical issues [in equality of outcome] involved are subtle and complex. They are not to be resolved by such simplistic formulas as “fair shares for all.” In
