Hoover senior fellows and members of the Koret Task Force on K–12 Education, Paul Peterson and Chester E. Finn discuss why civil rights groups have been reluctant to embrace charter schools.
In this podcast Russell Roberts, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and EconTalk host, discusses, with Robert Laughlin of Stanford University and the 1998 corecipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics, energy use and the future of the earth's climate.
Russell Berman, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Walter A. Haas Professor in the Humanities at Stanford University, discusses terrorism and his recent Hoover Press book, Freedom or Terror: Europe Faces Jihad, on KFNX 1100 (Phoenix, AZ) on Friday, August 6, at 8:00 pm (PT).
Russell Roberts, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and EconTalk host, discusses the board game Monopoly on NPR. Roberts, who has a fairly low opinion of Monopoly, discusses how the game presents a warped view of capitalism. “There's no innovation, no mutual benefits — it's all about grinding your opponents to dust.”
Thad Kousser, a W. Glenn Campbell and Rita Ricardo-Campbell National Fellow for 2009–10, discusses, on KPBS, California Crackup, a new book that offers solutions for California’s problems. Kousser then adds what he thinks could fix our broken state government.
David Davenport, counselor to the director and a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, discusses, on Townhall, the Obama administration’s challenge to Arizona’s immigration law.
Williamson M. Evers, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and a member of the Institution’s Koret Task Force on K–12 Education who specializes in research on education policy, especially as it pertains to curriculum, teaching, testing, accountability, and school finance from kindergarten through high school, discusses Common Core standards.
In this podcast Russell Roberts, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and EconTalk host, discusses, with Hoover senior fellow and noted Russian historian Robert Service, the life and death of Leon Trotsky. The conversation covers Trotsky's influence on the Russian Revolution, his influence on policy alongside Lenin, his expulsion from Soviet Union in 1928, and his murder in 1940 by Stalin's order.
David Davenport, counselor to the director and a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, discusses, on Townhall, the opportunity for the U.S. Supreme Court to stop a major federal power grab.
George Shultz, the Thomas W. and Susan B. Ford Distinguished Fellow at the Hoover Institution and former U.S. secretary of state, is joined by Madeleine Albright, also a former U.S. secretary of state, to discuss priorities for the U.S. in the second half of 2010, and whether it is possible to create the political will for positive change.
