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Although the economic and human costs of the COVID-19 pandemic have been devastating, a strategy for reducing the health risks of a gradual return to normalcy has begun to take shape. The task now is to navigate the difficult trade-offs and even more difficult politics of the crisis as sensibly as possible.
April 27, 2020 via Project Syndicate via Hoover Daily Report
A tax tidal wave is coming to California. And almost certainly to most other states. The only questions are how soon and how big. For California, it will be sooner rather than later, and bigger rather than smaller. And if you think California taxes are high now, just wait.
April 28, 2020 via undefined via California on Your Mind
America has never undertaken its like — a high-risk, high-cost endeavor launched amid uncertainty, panic, and pessimism.
April 28, 2020 via National Review via Hoover Daily Report
Societies that put freedom before equality will end up with a great measure of both.
April 28, 2020 via undefined via PolicyEd
The payments in the response to the coronavirus mark another instance of Congress voting to deliver money directly to households. The checks are poorly targeted to the task at hand, which is not so much to stimulate the economy, impossible when business is shuttered by state mandate, but to provide households in need with the resources to pay their bills and meet essential needs until the crisis passes.
April 27, 2020 via The Hill via Hoover Daily Report
In the 1930s, the British military pundit B. H. Liddell Hart argued that Britain’s participation in the First World War with a massive commitment to France to fight the Germans had been a terrible mistake. Instead, he argued, Britain, as it had supposedly done in the eighteenth and early nineteenth century, should have committed minimal forces to the continent and used its army and navy to attack Germany on the periphery. Liddell Hart’s arguments represented a rephrasing of the “blue water” school in British strategic thinking which had argued that Britain should focus almost entirely on the Royal Navy to the exclusion of spending any resources or committing any troops on the European Continent.
April 28, 2020 via undefined via Military History in the News
One silver lining in the dark coronavirus cloud is the revival of federalism, the old-fashioned idea that not every issue has to be decided in Washington. While most every policy issue—from education to health care and beyond—has traveled a one-way road from states and local governments to Washington, the coronavirus crisis rediscovered a leadership role for state and local government.
April 28, 2020 via Townhall Review via Hoover Daily Report
Without alternatives to the public school monopoly, the courts are powerless to improve Detroit’s worst schools.
April 27, 2020 via undefined via Defining Ideas
These days we are all a bit like those Japanese fishermen, cowering beneath a giant wave, the COVID-19 pandemic.
April 27, 2020 via Boston Globe via Hoover Daily Report
The response to the novel coronavirus pandemic in the United States has been delayed and disjointed for many reasons. Perhaps one of the most pernicious factors has been the quick evolution of the pandemic into a partisan issue.
April 20, 2020 via Foreign Affairs via Hoover Daily Report
Hoover Institution fellow Scott Atlas discusses the coronavirus’s high spread and low risk to most people is “good news” because “that means that we have a better chance of developing population immunity.”
April 27, 2020 via Real Clear Politics via Hoover Daily Report
(12:03) Hoover Institution fellow Victor Davis Hanson discusses the coronavirus as well as his National Review article "About Those Press Conferences."
April 27, 2020 via America First with Sebastian Gorka via Hoover Daily Report
Hoover Institution fellow Michael Auslin discusses how COVID-19 might affect the relationship between the US and China.
April 22, 2020 via Freakonomics via Hoover Daily Report
Hoover Institution fellow David Henderson discusses the lockdowns related to COVID-19 and believes the lockdowns need to end sooner rather than later.
April 24, 2020 via CATO Daily Podcast via Hoover Daily Report
Hoover Institution fellow Kevin Warsh discusses the global monetary and fiscal responses to the economic lockdowns enforced to halt the spread of Covid-19; and maps out a recovery back to something like normal.
April 27, 2020 via Reuters via Hoover Daily Report
That’s Scott Atlas, former chief of neuroradiology at Stanford University, making his case for ending coronavirus lockdowns in favor of a targeted approach to getting the U.S. back on its feet.
April 27, 2020 via MarketWatch via Hoover Daily Report
Dr. Victor Davis Hanson is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, a military historian, and a professor emeritus of classics at California State University, Fresno. He has written two articles relevant to today's society.
April 28, 2020 via CNS News via Hoover Daily Report
Michael R. Auslin predicts Taiwan will benefit greatly in post-pandemic diplomacy.
April 26, 2020 via Taiwan News via Hoover Daily Report
The COVID-19 pandemic has turned America’s focus inward. U.S. politics is all about economic relief, public health and reopening plans. Normally such myopia would degrade America’s standing in the world — but it’s not, necessarily, in large part because many U.S. adversaries are struggling as well.
April 27, 2020 via Boston Herald via Hoover Daily Report
Which muni bonds are at risk? The ones from states with outsized pension debts.
April 26, 2020 via Forbes via Hoover Daily Report
Just over two months ago, I spoke with an infectious disease doctor who not only believed that millions of Americans had already been exposed to COVID-19, but that the lockdowns were counterproductive and we needed to let herd Immunity take hold in our nation.
April 28, 2020 via Townhall via Hoover Daily Report
There are new reports that an Oxford University vaccine is showing promise. Monkeys given the trial drug and exposed to the virus have not caught the COVID-19 virus. Scientists have scheduled tests for as many as 6,000 people to receive the vaccine by the end of May.
April 28, 2020 via CBN News via Hoover Daily Report
Including the line ‘China was largely right and the United States was largely wrong’ discredits any piece of writing that discusses civil liberties and the rule of law.
April 26, 2020 via The Federalist via Hoover Daily Report
Even if states do get federal relief, it could come with major strings attached.
April 27, 2020 via Slate via Hoover Daily Report
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