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My Hoover colleague Richard Epstein posted a revealing essay on the nature of environmental regulation last week, with environmental regulation as a particular example. The contrast with "Environmental Laws Under Siege: Here is why we have them" in New York Times and the New Yorker's Scott Pruitt's Dirty Politics is instructive.
April 28, 2018 via Grumpy Economist via Hoover Daily Report
Pakistan’s military and intelligence leadership—the country’s decisive elements—view the United States as a danger to be managed and a resource to be exploited. Its approach to bilateral relations is predicated on three things: The (correct) belief that U.S. interlocutors do not understand the region; the conviction that, eventually, the U.S. will leave Afghanistan; and Pakistan’s need for hegemony over Afghanistan—not only to check India’s strategic moves but, more importantly, to guarantee Pakistan’s internal cohesion.
April 26, 2018 via undefined via Strategika
Author Ryan Holiday discusses his book, Conspiracy, with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. This is a crazy episode about a crazy book about a crazy set of events--the Hulk Hogan lawsuit against the website Gawker, a lawsuit that was secretly funded by Peter Thiel. Holiday explains how this happened and the lessons for all of us related to conspiracies, patience, strategy, and revenge.
April 29, 2018 via EconTalk via Hoover Daily Report
Two events over the weekend illuminate the issue of norms and the media in the Trump era. The first was a Twitter exchange on Friday evening.
April 30, 2018 via The Weekly Standard via Hoover Daily Report
After a devastating earthquake struck Haiti in January 2010, thousands of Haitians moved to the U.S. and enrolled their children in school here. David Figlio, Dean of the School of Education and Social Policy at Northwestern University, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss his research on the impact these Haitian refugee students had on the non-refugee students who were already attending those schools.
April 30, 2018 via The Education Exchange via Hoover Daily Report
The United States appears to be slowly emerging out of the wreckage that it has made of the Middle East. One would hope that the country’s political, intellectual, and military leaders would use the coming years to think seriously about the lessons to be learned from a lack of understanding that has marked America’s strategy over the past half century. It would be nice if they would, but I doubt they will. They certainly will not, if the past is any guide.
April 30, 2018 via undefined via Military History in the News
The Europeans won’t do business with Tehran if that means losing access to American banks.
April 29, 2018 via Wall Street Journal via Hoover Daily Report
As I mentioned last week, I'm reviewing Steven Pinker's new book, Enlightenment Now, and loving it.
April 29, 2018 via EconLog via Hoover Daily Report
In a Wall Street Journal review of Alan Blinder's latest book, Advice and Dissent, Matthew Rees writes: Mr. Blinder cites two measures to show what can be accomplished when economists and politicians work together. In 1983 the members of a Social Security commission put forward a bold and sound idea: gradually raising the retirement age to 67.
April 28, 2018 via EconLog via Hoover Daily Report
Hoover Institution fellow Richard Epstein discusses patent trolls.
April 27, 2018 via The John Batchelor Show via Hoover Daily Report
Hoover Institution fellow Timothy Garton Ash gives a lecture on ‘German and European unification: Harmony or dissonance?’
April 25, 2018 via German Missions in the UK via Hoover Daily Report
Hoover Institution fellow Michael Auslin discusses the changing relationship between North and South Korea.
April 27, 2018 via Armstrong and Getty via Hoover Daily Report
Hoover Institution fellow Abbas Milani discusses the Iran nuclear deal and whether President Trump will and can end the deal.
April 27, 2018 via Armstrong and Getty via Hoover Daily Report
Victor Davis Hanson, historian and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, sat down for “The Classicist” podcast recently and explored the complexities of the ongoing illegal immigration debate. He began by relating a story of one of his best students at Cal State Fresno. The student was in the country illegally and trying desperately to stay and continue to graduate school.
April 27, 2018 via Homeland 411 via Hoover Daily Report
Professor Niall Ferguson visited São Paulo in April to address Itaú’s annual MacroVision conference, and found time to sit down with Euromoney to talk fintech, social media and trade. In particular he focused on China and how it will impact Latin America’s future.
April 30, 2018 via Euromoney via Hoover Daily Report
Discrimination and Disparities by Thomas Sowell, Basic Books, New York, March 20, 2018 (143 pages, $28.00, hardcover) "Just the facts, ma'am." That was Joe Friday's interrogation refrain on Dragnet. The same comment could serve as the subtitle of Thomas Sowell's recent book, Discrimination and Disparities.
April 27, 2018 via American Thinker via Hoover Daily Report
James Comey is a legend in his own mind. He expressed part of the legend to Donald Trump when, according to one his memos, he told the president on January 27, 2017: He could count on me to always tell him the truth. I said I don’t do sneaky things, I don’t leak, I don’t do weasel moves.
April 27, 2018 via Powerline via Hoover Daily Report
When something “revolves”, it comes back to the same place from which it started. A “six-shooter” is a gun. Its cartridge chamber revolves back to where it started. Aristotle’s six-fold classification of political regimes from monarchy to aristocracy to polity to democracy to oligarchy to tyranny is in effect a theory of revolution, of regime changes from good to bad and back again.
April 28, 2018 via The Hill via Hoover Daily Report
Once again, Thomas Sowell’s writing demonstrates his masterful “idea density” and his amazing ability to pack more profound thought and wisdom into a single sentence than is usually contained in multiple paragraphs, and more perception and insight in several paragraphs than is usually contained in an entire chapter or even an entire book!
April 27, 2018 via AEI via Hoover Daily Report
Bitcoin is a scam that’s only good for criminals. That’s what Four Nobel Prize winners in economics said about the top cryptocurrency by market cap. Nobel laureates James Heckman (2000), Thomas Sargent (2011), Angus Deaton (2015), and Oliver Hart (2016) expressed collective skepticism when asked about bitcoin at a UBS panel discussion this week.
April 28, 2018 via Inquisitr via Hoover Daily Report
Dikotter, the author of a devastating trilogy on Mao's rule, says that the current leadership in China equates 'democracy' with the chaos of the Cultural Revolution.
April 28, 2018 via Business Standard via Hoover Daily Report
A few years ago, Time magazine published a cover story titled "Mexifornia" about how legal and illegal immigration from Mexico and Central America were changing the face, and the demographics, of our large and "progressive" neighbor to the west.
April 28, 2018 via Nevada Appeal via Hoover Daily Report
Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom continues to rule fundraising in the governor's race, with more than $17.6 million in the bank, according to fundraising documents filed with the state. But wealthy allies of fellow Democrat Antonio Villaraigosa dumped more than $12.5 million into an independent effort to boost his candidacy — just before mail ballots are sent to voters.
April 29, 2018 via Los Angeles Times via Hoover Daily Report
“This has been education’s lost decade.” —Michael Petrilli, president of the reform-oriented Thomas B. Fordham Institute, on the trend of flat progress on the nation’s NAEP scores.
April 27, 2018 via The 74 Million via Hoover Daily Report
Bloomberg Gadfly columnist Shira Ovide, Bloomberg Intelligence's Anurag Rana, and Jamil Jaffer, founder of National Security Institute at George Mason Law, discuss Amazon.com Inc.'s stake in cloud technology. They speak on "Bloomberg Daybreak: Americas."
April 27, 2018 via Bloomberg via Hoover Daily Report
One story getting little attention from the mainstream media is the story of Alfie Evans, a terminally ill toddler prevented from leaving Britain for medical treatment. Alfie has spent more than a year in a semi-vegetative state, suffering from a neurodegenerative disease. Over this span, he was kept alive in the critical care unit of Alder Hey Hospital by artificial ventilation.
April 28, 2018 via 71Republic via Hoover Daily Report
Very few government reports have had the staying power of “A Nation At Risk,” which appeared 35 years ago this month and stoked widespread concerns about the quality of American schools.
April 28, 2018 via WAMU 88.5 via Hoover Daily Report
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