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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...
Prison Sentences Much Longer Than Juries Would Like
Jacob Sullum, over at Reason's Hit and Run blog, has a very interesting post about a federal judge in Cleveland who, after a jury found a man guilty of receiving, possessing, and distributing child pornography, polled the jury for the jurors' view of a just sentence.
Diplomats On Twitter: The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly
London—In the 1840s, after receiving his first telegram, then British foreign minister Lord Palmerston reportedly exclaimed “My God, this is the end of diplomacy!”
The U.S. Intelligence Community And Non-Neutral Principles
Last week, Ben’s NSA Constitution Day speech emerged after a long “declassification” process. One puzzle Ben grapples with in this speech is why reasonable, educated Americans have–and will continue to have–such a high level of discomfort with what the NSA and other intelligence agencies do.
Krugman's Priceless Economics
As regular readers of my posts on Econlog know, although I am often critical of Paul Krugman, I defend him when he's doing good economics (here, for example). His New York Times column yesterday, though, "Walmart's Visible Hand," essentially throws out basic price theory. Thus the title of this post.
‘Please Stop Helping Us’ And ‘Shame’
One of the few things conservatives and liberals agree on about the ’60s is that it was a decade of radical change in the nation’s politics, ethnoracial and gender relations, popular culture and international policies.
Dom Armentano
Following a few of links in Bryan Caplan's latest post, I came across this book (zero-price as a pdf) edited by Walter Block. Titled I Chose Liberty, it's a series of essays on how various libertarians or close-to libertarians came to their views.
Monday Morning Muesli
On Friday I read yet another plaudit for Christopher Clark's The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914. Sleepwalkers? To judge from the title the great powers went to war in their sleep, without a conscious decision to do so, an interpretation that should let everyone off the hook.
Victor Davis Hanson On WIBC
Victor Davis Hanson discusses the litany of criminal activities that the Clinton's have been involved in over the years...
Russ Roberts On WSJ's Opinion Journal
Hoover fellow Russ Roberts on Thomas Piketty's walk back on his thesis about inequality in the past 100 years.
Psychologists Say Entrepreneurs Have These 4 Personality Traits
The Steve Jobses of the world have something in common.
In fact, according to organizational psychology research, they share at least four personality traits:
Privilege Theory Destroys The American Ideal Of Equality
How The White House Decides Whose Death Is Worth Presidential Notice
The president’s statement was punctuated by this unambiguous declaration: “I loved Spock.”
Vet Proposes Change To Military Pay And Benefits
Military pay and benefits is not only a Defense Department issue, but also an economic one. And Tim Kane, a former Air Force officer turned research fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution, wants to offer an alternative to fix system that he sees has been faltering for years.
Peter Berkowitz On The John Batchelor Show (7:45)
Hoover fellow Peter Berkowitz discusses Charles Cook's The Conservatarian Manifesto: Libertarians, Conservatives, and the Fight for the Right's Future as well as his views on conservatism, libertarianism, freedom, and what it is to be an American.
Did The New York Times Editorial Page Accuse General Petraeus Of A Crime Spree?
I’m not sure, but I think so.
Russ Roberts Applies Adam Smith To Modern-Day Issues
Hoover fellow Russ Roberts discusses Adam's Smith's book The Theory of Moral Sentiments and how these lessons can be applied today.
Harvey Mansfield On BigThink.com
Hoover fellow Harvey Mansfield discusses the philosophy of a conservative as well as political philosophy vs. political science.
Henry A. Kissinger: The World Will Miss Lee Kuan Yew
Lee Kuan Yew was a great man. And he was a close personal friend, a fact that I consider one of the great blessings of my life. A world needing to distill order from incipient chaos will miss his leadership.
Lee Kuan Yew (1923-2015)
It is not often that the leader of a small city-state — in this case, Singapore — gets an international reputation.
Security Conundrum Lecture Series To End With View From Congress And The Courts
Mark Udall, the former U.S. senator who has fought government spying on U.S. citizens, will speak on campus April 2, as part of Stanford's Security Conundrum lecture series.