Fifty years after the 1968 assassination of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Americans work, play, trade, travel, study and dine together across racial lines. There is much to honor on his national holiday.
A Stanford initiative that kicks off later this month will address some of society’s most complex issues and expose the campus to a wide range of perspectives and views.
Niall Ferguson, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, supported the original idea for the series when a group of undergraduates brought it to his attention last year. Ferguson will moderate the discussion between Thiel and Hoffman, which he hopes will both educate and excite students about an issue that cannot be reduced to binaries.
What kind of country have we become that we like billionaire media stars with no political or government experience running for president? Citizens have responsibilities in the electoral process and we need to quit voting to make statements and start paying attention to policy and governing.
Michael Wolff's mixture of “fantasy, exaggeration and some accidental truth” portrays President Trump as “hopelessly petty, childlike and uninformed,” says Victor Davis Hanson at American Greatness. “Trump's naiveté is not quite what Wolff thinks.”
Hoover Archives has created or updated finding aids for eight collections. The collections include materials related to China, Vietnam, and the Middle East. Users can access these finding aids using the Online Archive of California.
Hoover Institution fellow Russ Roberts examines what thinkers actually think is often very far removed from how their image is hijacked and caricatured for narrow political ends, especially in the present environment.
Established, traditional order is under assault from freewheeling, networked disrupters as never before. But society craves centralized leadership, too.
This coming Monday night, college football powerhouses Alabama and Georgia will meet in the sport’s purported “National Championship Game.” This year’s matchup is embarrassingly marred by the fact that Alabama and Georgia each lost earlier this season to Auburn, which was itself just beaten by Central Florida (UCF) in the Peach Bowl. UCF’s victory over Auburn put the crowning touch on its undefeated season, prompting athletic director Danny White to tweak Alabama, Georgia and the whole NCAA by declaring UCF to be “national champions.”
