Utah Faces Down The Rock-Climbing Industrial Complex
Companies selling outdoor gear lobby endlessly for more federal wilderness—subsidized by the taxpayer.
March 12, 2017 via Wall Street Journal via Hoover Daily ReportCompanies selling outdoor gear lobby endlessly for more federal wilderness—subsidized by the taxpayer.
March 12, 2017 via Wall Street Journal via Hoover Daily ReportOver at Daily Beast I explain why I think White House Counsel Don McGahn should have discovered and fixed Michael Flynn's foreign agent problems long before Flynn became National Security Advisor.
March 11, 2017 via Lawfare via Hoover Daily ReportHow the lack of ideological diversity on college campuses slows progress and threatens the ideals of liberal education.
March 10, 2017 via The American Interest via Hoover Daily ReportPutin is unlikely to be brought in from the cold, says former US envoy to Moscow Michael McFaul.
March 12, 2017 via Politico via Hoover Daily ReportIs capitalism part of the poverty problem facing the world or part of the solution? Are human beings doing a good job preserving the earth for future generations?
March 13, 2017 via EconTalk via Hoover Daily ReportDemocracies are unique in the extent to which their stability depends on legitimacy — a belief on the part of the public that the system of government in the country has what Seymour Martin Lipset called “a moral title to rule.”
March 9, 2017 via San Francisco Chronicle via Hoover Daily ReportAs countless commentators have observed, President Trump’s first months in office have been marked by the issuance of significant executive orders and other executive actions aimed at undoing or reforming the work of his predecessor, and charting a new policy course forward.
March 13, 2017 via Yale Journal on Regulation via Hoover Daily ReportPoliticians privilege the redistribution of fishery profits over property rights.
March 10, 2017 via undefined via Defining IdeasIs the federal crackdown on illegal immigration having a deterrent effect? Or are we suddenly experiencing a calm before the storm?
March 10, 2017 via CNN via Hoover Daily ReportThe thousands of Egyptian mourners greeting the body of Omar Abdel Rahman, the “Blind Sheikh,” alarmed many of their countrymen who had hoped the elderly Jihadist cleric had become irrelevant. Abdel Rahman’s funeral sent a signal that although Islamists may be a numerical minority—and are for the time being politically defeated—their ideas still very much resonate with a sizeable cross section of this country of 90 million.
March 10, 2017 via undefined via The CaravanEnergy producers and OPEC ministers, meeting at CERAWeek in Houston, grappled with a global glut of oil that was not supposed to be. Back in November, OPEC and non-OPEC oil producers agreed to their first production cut in eight years. Thus ended a Saudi-led experiment with free markets that had driven down crude prices to historic lows.
March 10, 2017 via Forbes via Hoover Daily ReportGeorge Mason University economist Dan Klein has a fun paper, about to be published in the Independent Review, titled "The Joys of Yiddish and Economics."
March 12, 2017 via EconLog via Hoover Daily ReportHoover Institution fellow Ed Lazear says that upticks in labor participation and wage growth and a decline in workers taking part-time jobs for involuntary reasons show that the economy is steadily recovering.
March 10, 2017 via CNBC via Hoover Daily ReportHoover Institution fellow Victor Davis Hanson discusses how the media's narrative on Russia has collapsed as the issue of wire tapping is investigated.
March 10, 2017 via Garrison (WIBC) via Hoover Daily ReportHoover Institution fellow Terry Anderson discusses his Defining Ideas article "The Climate Of Word Change."
March 11, 2017 via The John Batchelor Show via Hoover Daily ReportHoover Institution fellow Victor Davis Hanson discusses who profits from illegal immigration.
March 10, 2017 via PowerTalk 967 via Hoover Daily ReportWhen it comes to discerning and then distilling the essence not of Trumpism but of the man — the president — himself, no one did it better, we thought, than roving reporter Salena Zito, who said (now rather famously) before the election: “The press takes him literally, but not seriously; his supporters take him seriously, but not literally.”
March 11, 2017 via The Winchester Star via Hoover Daily ReportUS diplomats are worried about the "witch-hunt" which is taking place amid alleged contacts between the Trump administration's officials and Russian Ambassador to the United States Sergey Kislyak.
March 11, 2017 via Sputnik News via Hoover Daily ReportDuring a recent lecture in my Trinity College course on American higher education, I asked my students, “Why do you go to college?” Most of them answered, in various forms, “To get a job.”
March 10, 2017 via The Washington Post via Hoover Daily ReportEconomics and economic history also teach us humility: No economist in 1900 could have figured out what farmers, horse-shoers, ice deliverers, street-sweepers, and so forth would do when those jobs disappeared.
March 10, 2017 via Arnold Kling via Hoover Daily Report“Rugged individualism runs from the founding throughout America, but it has never been traced or understood well,” said David Davenport at a lunch discussion about his new book, Rugged Individualism: Dead or Alive? co-authored with Gordon Lloyd and published by the Hoover Institution this year.
March 10, 2017 via e21, Economic Policies for the 21st Century via Hoover Daily ReportWhen President Trump welcomes Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany to the Oval Office on Tuesday, their meeting will take on a symbolism unlike any he has held so far: The great disrupter confronts the last defender of the liberal world order.
March 10, 2017 via The New York Times via Hoover Daily Report[Subscription Required] Ayaan Hirsi Ali is coming to Australia soon to speak about reforming traditional Islam and confronting militant Islam. There are people and organisations trying to prevent her from coming or speaking. They describe her as an “extremist” who engages in “hate speech”. They are in error. She must be allowed both to come here and to speak. In a liberal society one is free to choose and to change one’s religion, one is free to not adhere to any religion and one is free to inquire, read, speak and write critically of religions, political ideologies and other matters, including law and morals.
March 11, 2017 via The Australian via Hoover Daily ReportTwo months before, Theo and I had made a short film together. We called it Submission, Part 1. I intended one day to make Part 2. (Theo warned me that he would work on Part 2 only if I accepted some humor in it!) Part 1 was about defiance—about Muslim women who shift from total submission to God to a dialogue with their deity.
March 11, 2017 via Live Mint via Hoover Daily ReportPicture a nondescript packing crate labeled "agricultural equipment" being loaded onto a delivery truck, which drives along Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C., until it stops midway between the White House and the Capitol.
March 10, 2017 via CNN via Hoover Daily ReportRichard A Muller, author and Professor of Physics at UC Berkeley, writes about the inspirational teaching technique of political scientist Ken Jowitt.
March 8, 2017 via Top Hat via Hoover Daily ReportThe prominent U.S. attorney fired by Donald Trump this weekend has been justly acclaimed for his pursuit of political corruption. But his treatment of the Wall Street executives involved in the financial meltdown was far less confrontational.
March 12, 2017 via Pro Publica via Hoover Daily Report
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