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U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh are over. They will go down in history as the most chaotic, disruptive, circus-like, non-substantive confirmation hearings in history. So far.
September 9, 2018 via San Francisco Chronicle via Hoover Daily Report
Argentina should dollarize, says Mary Anastasia O'Grady in the Wall Street Journal -- not a peg, not a currency board, not an IMF plan, just give up and use dollars.
September 10, 2018 via Grumpy Economist via Hoover Daily Report
Who rules? Behind the shiny façade of a monarchy or a presidency — behind all the pomp and ceremony — who really pulls the levers of power? The idea is an ancient one that there are two layers of power, one brightly visible, the other in the shadows. A standard figure in the royal courts of the early modern era was the éminence grise.
September 10, 2018 via The Boston Globe via Hoover Daily Report
Two albums containing an eclectic mix of materials gathered by Count Mauro Tosti di Valminuta, one of Benito Mussolini’s trusted diplomats, have been added to Hoover Institution holdings.
September 9, 2018 via Stanford News via Hoover Daily Report
The resistance to Donald Trump was warring on all fronts last week. Democratic senators vied with pop-up protestors in the U.S. Senate gallery to disrupt and, if possible, to derail the confirmation hearings of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. U.S. SenatorCory Booker (D-N.J.) played Spartacus, but could not even get the script right as he claimed to be bravely releasing classified information that was already declassified.
September 9, 2018 via American Greatness via Hoover Daily Report
Russian Literature Professor Kevin McKenna of the University of Vermont talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the life and times of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. This is the opening episode of the EconTalk Book Club for Solzhenitsyn's masterpiece In the First Circle: The First Uncensored Edition. A subsequent episode to air in the next few weeks discusses the book itself.
September 9, 2018 via EconTalk via Hoover Daily Report
School is back in session after one of the hottest summers in recorded history, and many students are now in classrooms without air conditioning. A new study looks at how hotter school days impact. student learning.
September 10, 2018 via The Education Exchange via Hoover Daily Report
The role of dominant content platforms like Facebook and Twitter in facilitating Russian election interference in the 2016 US presidential election has precipitated a backlash against “big tech,” and now the pendulum is swinging toward greater regulation of platforms for what their users say and do. Read the Lawfare post here.
September 5, 2018 via undefined via Aegis Paper Series
In late August 2016, I led a Congressional Delegation trip to Israel, Latvia, Poland, and Germany to gather information and build support for the POSTURE Act, a Bill to reverse the Obama administration’s drawdown of U.S. armed forces and deter further Russian aggression in eastern Europe. On day four of that trip we were in Latvia listening intently to Edgars Rinkevics, the Foreign Minister, explain his dismay with then-presidential candidate Donald Trump’s recent comments questioning the relevancy of NATO.
September 5, 2018 via undefined via Strategika
What’s the status of Donald Trump’s relationship with his conservative base?
September 10, 2018 via undefined via Matters of Policy & Politics
About a year ago, I set up our cable to automatically record CBS’s Sunday morning show, called, appropriately enough, CBS Sunday Morning. I did it for one main reason: to watch the beautiful nature scene, complete with sounds, that goes for about 30 or 40 seconds at the end of each episode. The sights and sounds are often breathtaking.
September 8, 2018 via EconLog via Hoover Daily Report
I posted in June about my interview on the BBC. It’s no longer on line but a friend sent me a clip that he saved of the interview at the time.
September 9, 2018 via EconLog via Hoover Daily Report
Hoover Institution fellow Adam White testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee, in favor of the Kavanaugh Supreme Court nomination. View a video of Adam White's opening statement or see more.
September 6, 2018 via Senate Judiciary Committee via Hoover Daily Report
Hoover Institution fellow Michael McConnell discusses key legal issues raised by the the New York Times September 5, anonymous op-ed titled “I am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration.”
September 10, 2018 via Stanford Law School via Hoover Daily Report
Hoover Institution fellow Richard Epstein discusses his Defining Ideas article "The Intellectual Poverty Of The New Socialists."
September 8, 2018 via The John Batchelor Show via Hoover Daily Report
Hoover Institution fellow Richard Epstein discusses his Defining Ideas article "The Intellectual Poverty Of The New Socialists."
September 8, 2018 via The John Batchelor Show via Hoover Daily Report
Hoover Institution fellow Harvey Mansfield reflects on The Federalist and why it should be read seriously as a great work on politics. Mansfield’s discussion calls our attention to the subtlety and complexity of the argument of The Federalist, as a whole, and explains why it remains an indispensable guide for thinking about American government.
September 8, 2018 via Ricochet via Hoover Daily Report
Hoover Institution fellow Adam White discusses the Kavanaugh confirmation process.
September 6, 2018 via Yahoo News via Hoover Daily Report
Hoover Institution fellow Lanhee Chen discusses the jobs report.
September 7, 2018 via CNBC via Hoover Daily Report
Hoover Institution fellow Lanhee Chen discusses the Republican Party and the upcoming U.S. midterm elections.
September 9, 2018 via Bloomberg via Hoover Daily Report
Hoover Institution fellow Lanhee Chen talks about former President Obama's recent speech encouraging Republican voters to vote for Democrats.
September 8, 2018 via MSNBC via Hoover Daily Report
Michael McFaul, former U.S. Ambassador to Russia, stopped by Duke Wednesday to promote his book "From Cold War to Hot Peace" and discuss U.S.-Russian relations since the Cold War.
September 7, 2018 via The Duke Chronicle via Hoover Daily Report
Kiron Skinner, the founding director of the Carnegie Mellon Institute for Politics and Strategy and Taube Professor of International Relations and Politics, started her new role as a senior policy adviser to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Sept. 4. Skinner was additionally appointed as the State Department’s new Director of Policy Planning.
September 9, 2018 via The Tartan via Hoover Daily Report
A former Federal Reserve official is suing the Fed for blocking his plan to create a new kind of bank, saying it is putting the interests of big Wall Street banks ahead of their large customers.
September 6, 2018 via The New York Times via Hoover Daily Report
To become lost in a novel, to venture into the uncharted territory of fictionalized worlds, is to start a love affair. It is excitement, it is imagination, but more than this, these pages are the key to our future in myriad ways. As publishers seek to flood the market with political tell-alls – mostly about President Trump – the real need for novels and stories of worth has never been greater, yet it is a market unserved in these days of scandal and salaciousness. The future these discount rack diatribes offer us is bleak, and worse, betray the beauty of the written word.
September 7, 2018 via Liberty Nation via Hoover Daily Report
President quick to complain about insider collusion thwarting his agenda but is it just the invention of paranoid conspiracy theorists or something more sinister?
September 7, 2018 via Independent via Hoover Daily Report
A recent landmark four-year study performed in the United States showed that young people, from the ages of 12 to 26, are struggling to find their purpose in life.
September 9, 2018 via The Star Malaysia via Hoover Daily Report
Surrounded by TV news cameras, Republican John Cox chatted with weary Californians stuck in long lines at a Sacramento DMV office and joyfully blasted Democratic leaders for turning the agency into a model of inefficiency.
September 6, 2018 via Los Angeles Times via Hoover Daily Report
The Trump administration is considering imposing sanctions on Chinese entities caught stealing U.S. intellectual property via cyberattacks, three people familiar with the matter said.
September 7, 2018 via Bloomberg via Hoover Daily Report
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