Monday, February 10, 2014

A Case of Faculty Discrimination Based on Politics

On Feb. 13 in St. Paul, Minn., the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals will hear arguments in Wagner v. Jones. The appeal is procedurally complex.

Sundays with Stendhal (3)

By 1830, would England be willing to pay for a war against another Napoleon?

While Putin Basks In Sochi, His Robobloggers Answer All Critics (Including an F-Word For Me)

Putin was too clever to allow open homage to his own personality cult in the Sochi opening drama. The extravaganza’s message was clear enough: Russia deserves an orderly and strong empire and a firm hand, which – hint, hint – only a VVP can provide. Who else would stage a winter Olympics a few hundred miles from the site of bitter ethnic conflict by a breakaway region or have the audacity to build a billion dollar villa for himself nearby.

U.S. Citizen Possibly Targeted for Drone Attack

Kimberly Dozier AP reports this morning that "[a]n American citizen who is a member of al-Qaida is actively planning attacks against Americans overseas, . . . and the Obama administration is wrestling with whether to kill him with a drone strike and how to

Six Keys to Economic Opportunity

When the president declared in his State of the Union address that "social mobility has stalled" and "our job is to reverse these trends," he overlooked six major findings from two equal-economic-opportunity studies recently released by Harvard economist Raj Chetty and his colleagues.

Are Government Bureaucracies Too Big?

Mulligan Interview

An Immigration Morality Tale

If there are executive orders overriding federal immigration law to extend amnesty to foreign nationals, without legal residence, and to continue their educations, there are also de facto all sorts of

The Spirit of Conservative Reform

American conservatism has the opportunity to become a governing majority, but it confronts a fateful choice.

Bill Whalen on The John Batchelor Show (11:44)

Mona Charen, NRO; Bill Whalen, Hoover; Richard Epstein, Hoover.

Richard Epstein on the John Batchelor Show (20:44)

Mona Charen, NRO; Bill Whalen, Hoover; Richard Epstein, Hoover.

Paul Sabin on Ehrlich, Simon and the Bet

Paul Sabin of Yale University and author of The Bet talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his book. Sabin uses the bet between Paul Ehrlich and Julian Simon--a bet over whether natural resources are getting scarcer as population...

California: GOP Incumbents May be Harmed by Party Abandoning Immigration Deal in D.C.

Republican leaders seem willing to risk losing a few swing districts over immigration rather than fuel tea party primary challengers who could lose a larger number of otherwise safe GOP seats in November. “The leaders are asking them to take one for the team,” an expert says.

Mark R. Peattie, Renowned Expert on Japanese Wartime History, Dies

Mark R. Peattie, Stanford alumnus and noted scholar on modern Japanese Imperial history, has died. Shorenstein APARC remembers him with appreciation as a former visiting scholar.