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Peter Berkowitz is the Tad and Dianne Taube Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. In 2019-2021, he served as the Director of the State Department’s Policy Planning Staff, executive secretary of the department's Commission on Unalienable Rights, and senior adviser to the...
He's No Ronald Reagan
On July 29, 1981, barely six months into his presidency and in the face of an economic crisis of historic proportions, Ronald Reagan succeeded in persuading both houses of Congress to pass dramatic tax cuts that set the stage for nearly three decades of vigorous economic growth...
Capitalism, Socialism, And Freedom
Despite the fundamental distinction between the two, misunderstandings of capitalism and socialism — and their implications for freedom — abound, and usually in favor socialism. In these circumstances, a return to the basics is warranted. The 17th-century writings of John Locke in defense of political and economic freedom and the 19th- century critique by Karl Marx of political and economic freedom represent classics of the genre.
Gary Becker Interview
In today's Wall Street Journal, Hoover's Peter Robinson reports on an interview with Gary Becker. . . .
Architects of Ruin
With Architects of Ruin, Peter Schweizer again delivers a knockout punch of a book that is the must read of the season for conservatives and should be a main topic of conversation for conservative media. . . .
Reason.tv: Richard Epstein on Barack Obama, his former Chicago law colleague
Epstein discusses flat taxes and the fiscal cliff on the John Batchelor Show
Richard Epstein, the Peter and Kirsten Bedford Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and a member of the John and Jean De Nault Task Force on Property Rights, Freedom, and Prosperity, notes that to step back from the fiscal cliff, we need to simplify our tax policy.
Thomas Sowell on Intellectuals and Society: Chapter 2 of 5
Thomas Sowell offers examples of why intellectuals are so often wrong about economics. . . .
Gary Becker's Optimism
The Nobel Prize winner says Americans don't want expansion of government. . . .
Epstein & Taylor: Are We All Keynesians Now?: Chapter 4 of 5
How well did our leaders handle the financial crisis? . . .
Housing with Thomas Sowell: Chapter 4 of 5
Thomas Sowell details the pitfalls of New Deal thinking...
How Obama Can Win Back The Public
The President should take a page from Francois Mitterand. . . .
How to Get America Back to Work
Discussing today's jobs report and what the nation needs to do to get back to work, with CNBC's John Harwood & Steve Liesman; Robert Reich, former Labor Secretary; Stephen Moore, Wall Street Journal editorial board; Victor Davis Hanson, Hoover Institution and Peter Navarro, University of California-Irvine. . . .
Through a Chinese screen
In the Age of Discontinuity, published by Harper & Row at the height of the Vietnam War and some 25 years after the end of World War Two, management guru Peter Drucker wrote about managing change when there is a total disconnect between the past as we perceive it and the present evolving into the future. . . .
Whom Do You Trust?
Everyone seems to need a narrative of good against evil -- even people who don't believe in God or in Satan. . . .
Should Middle-Class Americans Subsidize $100,000-A-Year Pensions For Government Workers?
Greece this past weekend saw the worst rioting since the debt crisis began. . . .
Epstein & Taylor: Are We All Keynesians Now?: Chapter 5 of 5
How well are our leaders — including Federal Reserve chair Ben Bernanke — managing the aftermath of the financial crisis? . . .
Neither Moderate Nor Centrist
"To see what is in front of one's nose," George Orwell famously asserted, "needs a constant struggle."
Mitt Romney's Big-Government Health Care Plan
Mitt Romney appears to have changed his mind once again about the statewide health care program he enacted as governor of Massachusetts...
Rahe Of Sunshine
Paul Rahe, a professor at Hillsdale College, believes the country is going to hell in a hand basket. . . .
Wall Street bailouts: Business as usual
Economics professor Allan Meltzer once said, "Capitalism without failure is like religion without sin."...