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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...
Praise And Skepticism As One Executive Sets Minimum Wage To $70,000 A Year
When Dan Price announced last week that he would cut his own pay and profits to make it possible to raise the minimum wage at Gravity Payments, his credit card processing company in Seattle, to a hefty $70,000 a year, he had little idea of the whirlwind it would stir.
Tuesday, April 21, 2015
Chaos In The Primaries
Seldom does the initial "front-runner" in either party's primaries end up being the actual candidate when election day rolls around. However, even if we cannot predict the outcomes of the primaries this far in advance, we can at least start trying to understand the candidates, the almost candidates and the people who are running just for the publicity.
Moral Schizophrenics
Hillary Clinton in recent months has done the following: She charged UCLA somewhere around $300,000 for reciting some platitudes. That works out to over $165 a second for her 30 minutes on stage — meaning that she made more in one minute than a student barista does in a year.
Dick Cheney Knows What Republican Voters Want To Hear
Now that 19 men and women with the ego to believe they should be America’s next president have traveled to New Hampshire and peddled their goods, we’ve learned one startling thing about 2016’s road to the White House.
Don’t Worry, Be Happy
America is relieved that things at least appear calm, as war and death rage abroad. At almost every critical juncture, the administration chose short-term happy talk in lieu of worries over long-term consequences. No matter how frequent the disasters abroad, Obama can proclaim the world is at peace in an unprecedented age of stability and security.
Latest Episode Of “Rational Security”
"Rational Security” was delayed last week, but the special “Crusader Airstrikes Edition” is now out. You can subscribe to Rational Security using our RSS feed, on iTunes, or on Stitcher. Enjoy!
2015 Pulitzer Winners
Biography or autobiography finalist: “Stalin: Volume I: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928” by Stephen Kotkin
New Voices For 2015
He's well respected as a neutral referee when it comes to the future of entitlements, which will be all the more needed as the Disability Insurance program comes closer to running out of money and the debates surrounding it grow more frequent and intense. Expect Blahous' well reasoned voice to rise above those of pundits who are in denial of the crisis facing Social Security.
Wednesday, April 22, 2015
Charles Blahous On The John Batchelor Show (19:15)
Hoover fellow Charles Blahous discusses "King v. Burwell,” a case before the Supreme Court. The court's decision is critical to the future of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) because if the subsidies are struck down then millions of Americans covered by the ACA might conclude they can no longer afford health insurance and decline to carry it.
As Earth Day Has Grown, So Have The Eco-Challenges
For Terry Anderson, an economist at Stanford's Hoover Institution and co-founder of the Property and Environment Research Center, the biggest challenge is to get past such battles by incentivizing change with free market principles.
UM Ends President’s Lecture Series With Award-Winning Harvard Professor
A conservative political philosopher, well-known on the Harvard University campus and beyond, will deliver the final installment of the 2014-15 President’s Lecture Series at the University of Montana.
The Decline And Fall Of Empires
Every earlier empire, or alliance, or whatever term we want to use for the current U.S. system, eventually declined and fell, without exception.
Simple Arithmetic For California's Water Crisis
California agricultural statistics can be found here. In 2013, the top 20 commodities ranged from a high of $7,618 billion for milk and cream to a low of eggs and chicken of $380 million. But water usage does not correlate with the dollar value of output of each of these commodities.
Ed Trust Midwest Report on Michigan’s Charter Authorizers: A Decent Start, But Hardly the Final Word
Followers of Fordham’s work know that we are obsessed with charter school quality, both nationally and in our home state of Ohio. We are also a charter school authorizer, responsible for overseeing a portfolio of eleven schools in the Buckeye State—a job we take very seriously.
Scott Walker Doesn’t Need A Degree — And Neither Do You
Can Gifted Education Survive The Common Core?
What does the Common Core portend for America’s high-achieving and gifted students? Quite a kerfuffle has erupted in many parts of the country, with boosters of these rigorous new standards declaring that they’re plenty sufficient to challenge the ablest pupils and boosters of gifted education fretting that this will be used as the latest excuse to do away with already-dwindling opportunities for such children.
Q&A With Dan Banik, Professor Of Online International Development Course
Dan Banik was a visiting associate professor at Stanford’s Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law (CDDRL) at Stanford’s Freeman Spogli Institute from July 2013 through July 2014.
Robots Are Hurting Middle Class Workers, And Education Won’t Solve The Problem, Larry Summers says
Two weeks ago, the famous economist Larry Summers sat in a chair on a stage at the National Press Club, talked with several other smart people for an hour and briefly upended a major debate in economics.