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(LAST 7 DAYS)
1. What I Found in Mr. Hoover's Papers
Herbert Hoover understood that history is to be discovered not just in official documents but in the little details of the past. By Robert Service.
2. Dollars to Doughnuts
Lots of Americans are overweight, but obesity is not a public health crisis. By Jay Bhattacharya.
3. The Changing American Family
During the past 20 years, the American family has undergone a profound transformation. By Herbert S. Klein.
4. Noam Chomsky, Closet Capitalist
Chomsky talks an anti-capitalist game, but what does he practice? Market economics at their most profitable. By Peter Schweizer.
5. How to Cure Health Care
The United States spends a mind-boggling percentage of its GDP on a health care system that virtually everyone agrees is a disaster. Is there any way out of this mess? There is—and Hoover fellow Milton Friedman has found it.
6. A Brief History of Testing and Accountability
How to improve our public schools? Many policymakers argue that we can start by holding students, teachers, schools, and school districts accountable for student performance. This approach may sound perfectly reasonable—but it has the education profession up in arms. By Hoover fellow Diane Ravitch.
7. Pay to Stay
Is it so outlandish to suggest that we sell the right to live in the United
States? Outlandish or not, such a policy would benefit legal and illegal
immigrants alike. By Gary S. Becker.
8. The Hong Kong Experiment
A controlled experiment in the field of economics? The last fifty years of history have provided just that. The free economy: Hong Kong. The mixed economy: the United States. The socialist economies: Great Britain and Israel. Nobel laureate and Hoover fellow Milton Friedman evaluates the results.
9. The Foreign Service Blues
Those who serve America abroad are being asked to do more and more with less and
less, but our diplomatic corps is doing just that as it performs new duties in
Baghdad and the world. By Cecile Shea.
10. The Case for Free Trade
In international trade, Hoover fellow Charles Wolf Jr. argues above, deficits don't much matter. Here Milton Friedman and Rose Friedman discuss what does: freedom. A ringing statement of logic and principle.
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