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After the disease, the debt. After the plague, the pile of IOUs. It is a veritable mountain — a reminder that the original public debt in medieval Venice went by the name monte.
December 13, 2020 via Bloomberg via Hoover Daily Report
Dec. 13 marks my turning 100 years young. I’ve learned much over that time, but looking back, I’m struck that there is one lesson I learned early and then relearned over and over: Trust is the coin of the realm.
December 11, 2020 via The Washington Post via Hoover Daily Report
It’s our last show of 2020, and we decided to do something a little different: assemble a few of our favorite guests and take a look back at the year that was. Our panel: the Wall Street Journal’s Kim Strassel, author and columnist Douglas Murray, and Commentary Magazine editor and New York Post columnist John Podhoretz.
December 11, 2020 via undefined via Uncommon Knowledge with Peter Robinson
Bouts of extreme leftism are frequent in history. Plato’s Apology, Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France, and Vladimir Lenin’s What Is to Be Done? — all offer us insight into the mind and methods of the hard Left.
December 15, 2020 via National Review via Hoover Daily Report
Takings law and administrative law cannot peacefully coexist in the Supreme Court.
December 11, 2020 via undefined via Defining Ideas
If “conservatism” is a political noun, it is always in the company of varied adjectives. There are national security conservatives, fiscal conservatives, neoconservatives, social conservatives, reform conservatives, and on we could go. George W. Bush, apparently thinking it was not enough to be just a conservative, campaigned as a “compassionate conservative.” John McCain was a “maverick conservative.”
December 16, 2020 via The Washington Examiner via Hoover Daily Report
Over the last four years, many national security experts, both outside and within the Trump administration, have warned that the return of ideological competition between autocratic China and Russia and the democratic United States is the defining feature of international relations today. (They're wrong; it's climate change, although "great power competition" is the next most important global dynamic.)
December 16, 2020 via NBC News via Hoover Daily Report
Four years ago, in this same space and at a time when many Americans were on the horns of a dilemma that was the choice between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, I offered an alternative: former Secretary of State George Shultz.
December 12, 2020 via Forbes via Hoover Daily Report
Bjorn Lomborg explains why innovation matters more than good intentions to overcoming the effects of climate change.
December 16, 2020 via undefined via PolicyEd
Hoover Institution fellow John Cochrane discusses the tradeoffs, incentives, and unintended consequences which result from the progressive economic policies championed by Democrat leaders like AOC and Bernie.
December 9, 2020 via Hold These Truths with Dan Crenshaw via Hoover Daily Report
Hoover Institution fellow Victor Davis Hanson discusses the root causes of the new mad Left, the “Hydroxy Effect” facing Joe Biden, the Hoover Institution’s Strategika journal and its new discussion on the pandemic’s impact on Red China, and the immigration/amnesty threat that a Biden administration may unleash on the American people and economy.
December 15, 2020 via National Review via Hoover Daily Report
Hoover Institution fellow Niall Ferguson discusses his recent Bloomberg article “Bitcoin Is Winning the Covid-19 Monetary Revolution” and discuss the history of financial evolution, including how the current iteration of that evolution is playing out between China and the US and how he views Bitcoin in that context. He also discusses the qualities that make Bitcoin a significant advance and the broader importance of decentralization and sovereignty.
December 15, 2020 via Bitcoin Magazine - A Bitcoin Podcast via Hoover Daily Report
Hoover Institution fellow John Yoo discusses the recall of Governor Gavin Newsom as well as the attacks on President Lincoln.
December 16, 2020 via Fox News via Hoover Daily Report
Hoover Institution fellow Jonathan Rodden discusses how Georgia’s electoral dynamics reflect trends in America’s political landscape.
December 14, 2020 via Stanford News via Hoover Daily Report
Reagan’s secretary of state also worked to restore balance to the American relationship with China.
December 13, 2020 via The Wall Street Journal via Hoover Daily Report
An excellent fantasy series, an 1100 page biography, and the original meaning of Article II.
December 11, 2020 via Reason via Hoover Daily Report
While the globalization of capitalism has been responsible for lifting millions of people out of poverty, in an age of rising inequality, many are rightfully questioning the system as a whole. Rajan’s The Third Pillar offers an excellent framework to understand the problems associated with market-based economic systems and help us think about solutions.
December 12, 2020 via Barrons via Hoover Daily Report
"Some have argued that Brexit may actually help the EU because, liberated from the Anglo-Saxon awkward customer, the other member states can smoothly move ahead to further integration. This is an illusion," writes Timothy Garton Ash, a historian, political writer and columnist, in his latest opinion.
December 12, 2020 via EU Bulletin via Hoover Daily Report
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