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James Ceaser is the Harry F. Byrd Professor of Politics at the University of Virginia, director of the Program for Constitutionalism and Democracy, and was a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. He is the author of several books on American politics and American political thought, including...
Exploring Contemporary Chinese History: Hoover Holds Annual Summer Workshop On Modern China
The fifth annual Hoover Institution Workshop on Modern China, entitled “Crossing the 1949 Divide: The Hoover Archives and Contemporary Chinese History,” was held during July 31 and August 4, 2017. Co-organized and cosponsored with the Seminar of East Asian Studies, Free University of Berlin, this year the workshop featured seven speakers from the United States, Germany, Austria, and Taiwan who explored Hoover’s unique modern China collections and evaluated how these historical treasures help reshape our understanding of contemporary China and post-1949 Taiwan. Workshop attendees presented their research to over three hundred audience from the Hoover/Stanford community as well as to researchers and mass media in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Rethinking Policy Education: The Summer Policy Boot Camp
At the Hoover Institution, the Summer Policy Boot Camp reflects a major rethinking about how to train people to become successful policy leaders. While students may learn about policy issues and analysis in the classroom, some Stanford scholars say that they do not always develop the skills needed after college to deliver policy results in the real world.
Is the Shutdown Really Worse than Business as Usual?
Chastening the Giant Banks
New Regulations Batter The Middle Class. Obama Changes The Subject.
The Piketty Fallacy
Greener Than Thou
Plucking a few facts out of the bin of recycled slogans. By Terry L. Anderson and Laura E. Huggins.
Capitalist Culture
Capitalism may make us all rich, but what does it do for our cultural life? According to Hoover fellow David R. Henderson, quite a lot.
SLASHING THROUGH THE REGULATION THICKET
Steve Hayward on cities that are slashing through the regulation thicket Merrill Matthews Jr. on bringing freedom of choice to public housing The State of the States
Regulatory Overdose
Gene therapy offers enormous potential for the treatment of serious illness. What is the government doing about it? Thwarting researchers. By Hoover fellow Henry I. Miller.
Whither the Tax Revolt?
Poll after poll shows that Americans today feel overtaxed, frustrated, and ready for change. So why hasn’t there been a tax revolt? By Hoover media fellow Amity Shlaes.
Kinder, Gentler Recessions
The high-tech revolution is giving us a permanently higher rate of economic growth while muting business downturns. Hoover fellow David R. Henderson on why even the bad economic news isn't as bad as it used to be.
The Bright Side of British Colonialism
Corporations Are People, Too
Down With “Creative” Government Lawyers
Now Hiring Ex-Cons
Let Them Drink Big Sodas
Trolling for “Patent Trolls”
Unions Take High Culture Hostage
Carnegie Hall is symbolic of how our current system of labor law can destroy our civic institutions.
The Problem With 'Job Creation'
In the next election, politicians should reconsider their rhetoric when it comes to the economy.