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Barack Obama’s Revolution In Foreign Policy

by Niall Fergusonvia The Atlantic
Sunday, March 13, 2016

When you think you’re the smartest person in the room, it’s tempting to make up your own grand strategy.

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The Weirdness Of Illegal Immigration

by Victor Davis Hansonvia Works and Days
Sunday, March 13, 2016

Set aside for a moment all the controversies over illegal immigration—the wall, deportation, amnesty, Donald J. Trump, “comprehensive immigration reform,” etc.

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Obama: Fighting Wars He Believes Unwinnable

by Kori Schakevia The Atlantic
Monday, March 14, 2016

What’s behind the president’s inaction?

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The US Is Botching The Zika Fight

by John Cohrssen, Henry I. Millervia Wall Street Journal
Sunday, March 13, 2016

A genetically tweaked mosquito could stop the illness, but regulators won’t test it. Why would that be?

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The Classicist: “The Iraq War: A Refresher Course”

interview with Victor Davis Hansonvia The Classicist
Friday, March 11, 2016

Setting the record straight on one of America’s most controversial conflicts.

Analysis and Commentary

David Autor On Trade, China, And U.S. Labor Markets

by Russell Robertsvia EconTalk
Monday, March 14, 2016

David Autor of MIT talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the fundamentals of trade and his research on the impact on workers and communities from trade with China.

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Putin Changes September Election Rules To Prop Up His 'United Russia' Party

by Paul R. Gregoryvia Forbes
Monday, March 14, 2016

The September 18 Russian parliamentary elections will take place amidst a deep economic crisis, with oil at $30 a barrel, and with election rules deliberately designed to blunt and conceal voter disaffection.

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Kudos To Brad DeLong

by David R. Hendersonvia EconLog
Sunday, March 13, 2016

Paul Krugman has recently written some incredibly critical things about free trade. Co-blogger Scott Sumner has responded admirably.

Analysis and Commentary

The American Scream

by Tunku Varadarajanvia Open
Friday, March 11, 2016

It is a fight between the inscrutably cynical Hillary Clinton and the swashbuckling nativist Donald Trump. The unpopular may defeat the popular in the end.

Analysis and Commentary

Obama Pulls A Cheney

by David R. Hendersonvia EconLog
Sunday, March 13, 2016

"You may recall that I passed this law called the Affordable Care Act to sign people up for health care." This is from a transcript of President Obama's remarks on Friday to the SXSW (South by Southwest) conference in Austin, Texas.

Analysis and Commentary

Rational Security: The "117 Experts Can't Be Wrong" Edition

by Benjamin Wittesvia Lawfare
Friday, March 11, 2016

Republican national security experts declare Donald Trump unfit to be president. Who actually actually advises candidate Trump and who would advise President Trump? 

Analysis and Commentary

Academic Conservatives And Survivor Bias

by David R. Hendersonvia EconLog
Friday, March 11, 2016

Someone on Facebook this morning linked to an interesting, but misleading titled, op/ed on conservatives in academia. The op/ed, by Jon A. Shields and Joshua M. Dunn, Sr., is titled "Forget what the right says: Academia isn't so bad for conservative professors," and appears in the Washington Post.

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Russell Roberts On To The Point (14:30)

interview with Russell Robertsvia To The Point (KCRW)
Friday, March 11, 2016

Hoover Institution fellow Russell Roberts discusses free trade, protectionism, and their effect on wages and the economy.

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Lanhee Chen: The GOP Can Win Back Asian-American Voters

interview with Lanhee J. Chenvia NBC News
Friday, March 11, 2016

Hoover Institution fellow Lanhee Chen discusses the presidential candidates as well as reforming taxes and health care.

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Hoover Library & Archives Now Accepting Applications For The 2016 Workshop On Authoritarian Regimes

Friday, March 11, 2016

Hoover Library & Archives has opened applications for the 2016 Workshop on Authoritarian Regimes. The deadline for applications is May 30, 2016.

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Brian Bonner: ​Condoleezza Rice, Barack Obama And Ukraine

featuring Condoleezza Ricevia KyivPost
Sunday, March 13, 2016

Two great Americans who are also trailblazing African-Americans, and hence even greater sources of pride for citizens like me, revealed their thoughts on Ukraine this month.

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Is Global Democracy In Trouble? Or Does It Just Feel Like It?

quoting Larry Diamondvia Public Radio International
Friday, March 11, 2016

Glance at headlines, and it’s easy to get gloomy about the state of democracy around the world. 

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Trade Has Trade-Offs. This Should Not Surprise Anyone

quoting Thomas Sowellvia American Enterprise Institute
Friday, March 11, 2016

“There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs,” economist Thomas Sowell writes his excellent Conflict of Visions.

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The Present American Regime: Tyranny, Oligarchy, Or Democracy?

quoting Victor Davis Hansonvia Catholic World Report
Sunday, March 13, 2016

The most dangerous thing that anyone can do, in Aristotelian terms, is to accurately describe the existing regime that he is living under at the time.

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Economy Still Sailing Uncharted Seas, Fed Officials Confess

quoting Kevin Warshvia MarketWatch
Saturday, March 12, 2016

Despite unprecedented monetary stimulus, sustainable growth is no closer.

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Government Report Finds Some EPA Tactics Illegal

quoting Henry I. Millervia Tyler Morning Telegraph
Sunday, March 13, 2016

The Environmental Protection Agency has used every tactic possible to attack the oil and gas industry during the past seven years. Now, a report from the Government Accountability Office finds that some of those tactics are illegal.

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Why Some Hasidic Jews Are Loving Donald Trump's Campaign

quoting Samuel J. Abramsvia Vice News
Thursday, March 10, 2016

Chaim Schlaff was born and raised in a Hasidic Jewish community in London. He now lives in an ultra-Orthodox neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, and describes himself as a "proud legal immigrant." He is also an enthusiastic Donald Trump supporter.

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California Top Export Is The Middle Class

quoting Carson Brunovia Breitbart.com
Saturday, March 12, 2016

When the Hoover Institution took a close look at California’s migration patterns, they discovered that California’s middle class is leaving the state in record numbers.

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Goodbye Nancy—From Ron Reagan, George Shultz And Mr. T

mentioning George P. Shultzvia Politico
Friday, March 11, 2016

The last farewell of a presidency that crossed celebrity with the establishment.

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A New Format For Presidential Debates

mentioning Victor Davis Hansonvia American Thinker
Monday, March 14, 2016

There has been widespread dissatisfaction with previous presidential debates between the Republican and Democratic candidates.

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Nationalism And Dissent: A Battle Over Free Speech Is Raging In India

quoting Tunku Varadarajanvia Vice News
Saturday, March 12, 2016

India's prestigious Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) prides itself as a place where student activism and politics flourish. As a bastion of the nation's left, it's known, especially among the intellectual class, as fertile ground for liberal thinking.

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by David R. Henderson Thursday, December 31, 2015
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by Carson Bruno Thursday, December 31, 2015
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by Mark Harrison Friday, January 1, 2016
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by David R. Henderson Wednesday, December 30, 2015
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interview with Richard A. Epstein Friday, January 1, 2016
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featuring William J. Perry Wednesday, December 30, 2015
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by Michael McFaul Wednesday, January 6, 2016
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by Michael J. Boskin Monday, December 28, 2015
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by Victor Davis Hanson Tuesday, December 29, 2015
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by Thomas Sowell Tuesday, December 29, 2015
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interview with Russell Roberts Monday, December 28, 2015
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by John H. Cochrane Monday, December 28, 2015
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by Jack Goldsmith, Oona A. Hathaway Friday, December 25, 2015
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by Bruce Thornton Wednesday, December 30, 2015
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by Victor Davis Hanson Thursday, December 24, 2015
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by John B. Taylor Thursday, December 24, 2015
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by Alvin Rabushka Tuesday, December 29, 2015
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by Herbert Lin Wednesday, December 30, 2015
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by John H. Cochrane Wednesday, December 23, 2015
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by Bill Whalen Wednesday, December 23, 2015
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by Harvey C. Mansfield Wednesday, December 23, 2015
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by Tunku Varadarajan Sunday, December 27, 2015
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by Victor Davis Hanson Sunday, December 27, 2015
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by Jack Goldsmith Sunday, December 27, 2015
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by David R. Henderson Wednesday, December 23, 2015
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by Elizabeth Cobbs Sunday, December 27, 2015
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by Benjamin Wittes Friday, December 25, 2015
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interview with John H. Cochrane Thursday, December 24, 2015
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by John H. Cochrane Tuesday, December 22, 2015
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by Larry Diamond Saturday, December 19, 2015
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by Michael Spence Monday, December 21, 2015
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by Amy Zegart Monday, December 21, 2015
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by Victor Davis Hanson Sunday, December 20, 2015
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by Charles Blahous Tuesday, December 22, 2015
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by Chester E. Finn Jr., Brandon L. Wright Tuesday, December 22, 2015
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by Bill Whalen Sunday, December 20, 2015
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by Paul R. Gregory Monday, December 21, 2015
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by David R. Henderson Friday, December 18, 2015
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by Tunku Varadarajan Sunday, December 20, 2015
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by Benjamin Wittes Friday, December 18, 2015
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Analysis and Commentary

Rational Security: The "It's A Feature Not A Bug" Edition

by Benjamin Wittesvia Lawfare
Friday, March 4, 2016

A New York magistrate judge says the government can’t force Apple to help the FBI extract information from an iPhone. Forty percent of analysts at the U.S. military’s Central Command say the “integrity” of their reports is flawed. 

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e-Residency In Estonia, Part III: Wherein I Use My New Digital Identity Card To Swap Letters With The President

by Benjamin Wittesvia Lawfare
Friday, March 4, 2016

The other day, I received a letter from Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves. It came in the form of an unadorned Microsoft Word file called "wittes.docx." It did not bear President Ilves's John Hancock. Nor was it on the letterhead of the office of the Estonian Presidency.

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Faculty Senate Talks Serra Renaming, Smoking On Campus, PPB Report

quoting Russell A. Bermanvia Stanford Daily
Friday, March 4, 2016

The Faculty Senate unanimously approved a four-part resolution regarding the proposal to rename certain campus buildings and roads currently named after Junipero Serra during their meeting Thursday afternoon.

Interviews

Richard Epstein On The John Batchelor Show

interview with Richard A. Epsteinvia The John Batchelor Show
Thursday, March 3, 2016

Hoover Institution fellow Richard Epstein discusses his Defining Ideas article "The Real Cause Of American Growth."

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Bill Whalen On The John Batchelor Show

interview with Bill Whalenvia The John Batchelor Show
Thursday, March 3, 2016

Hoover Institution fellow Bill Whalen discusses the recent Republican debate and notes that the candidates fought like hockey players. Whalen thinks Kasich did the best in this debate, but Whalen does not think Kasich can win the nomination.

Analysis and Commentary

Larry Summers's Anti-Trump Case In A Vacuum

by David R. Hendersonvia EconLog
Thursday, March 3, 2016

Recently, economist Larry Summers made his case against Donald Trump. It has one main problem. Although Larry makes, in some ways, a powerful case, he makes it in a vacuum. The question is not whether Donald Trump should be president or no one should be president.

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Viva La Revolution?

quoting Russell Robertsvia EconTalk
Thursday, March 3, 2016

Women have made an enormous amount of economic progress over the last half-century but how have the gains been felt by different kinds of women? How have these changes affected women's perspectives on marriage and family? In this week's provocative episode, EconTalk host Russ Roberts sits down with Alison Wolf of King's College to discuss her new book, The XX Factor.

Analysis and Commentary

The Libertarian: “Choosing the Next Supreme Court Justice”

interview with Richard A. Epsteinvia Defining Ideas (Hoover Institution)
Thursday, March 3, 2016

How to fill a vacancy on the nation’s highest court.

In the News

In Israel, Shultz Says He'd Bring Trust Back To The Table

featuring George P. Shultzvia JWeekly (CA)
Thursday, March 3, 2016

George Shultz may be 95, but he’s still racking up those frequent-flier miles. The former secretary of state traveled from San Francisco to Israel last month to confer with government officials, among them Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat and Knesset members Isaac Herzog and Yuli Edelstein.

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Who’s Feeding Trump Those Nutty Foreign Policy Ideas?

quoting Benjamin Wittes, Timothy Kanevia The Washington Post
Thursday, March 3, 2016

Once again today — no surprise! — Donald Trump refused to name anyone on his foreign policy team. When pressed to say whom he respected, he named two people one might see on the Sunday talk shows (where he previously said he gets information): “Kane” (Tim Kane of the Hoover Institution, we presume) and Richard Haass of the Council on Foreign Relations. 

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