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Can the country confront its current problems with its traditional can-do spirit? We have barely four months to figure out how.
June 26, 2020 via The Wall Street Journal via Hoover Daily Report
America’s war on testing entered a new phase this spring as every state extracted a federal waiver from end-of-year assessments of its school kids in reading and math, and most also skipped their own end-of-course and high-school exit exams.
June 28, 2020 via The Hill via Hoover Daily Report
Expanding civil rights protections to speech could limit the abuses of wokeness.
June 26, 2020 via City Journal via Hoover Daily Report
Thanks to this summer’s surge in political correctness, “Old Nassau” has revisited an old problem: what do with the legacy of Woodrow Wilson, the 28th President of the United States and, from 1902-1910, Princeton University’s 13th president.
June 28, 2020 via Forbes via Hoover Daily Report
The hour of reckoning is here. Either Trump will crush the lawlessness and win swing voters to his side, or he will listen to the trimmers and lose the country.
June 28, 2020 via American Greatness via Hoover Daily Report
The disconnect between urban and rural America is starting to work in the latter’s favor.
June 26, 2020 via undefined via The Classicist
David Brooks has long been a stalwart supporter of education reform, both the choice-and-charters flavor and the testing-and-accountability variety. So it was a real downer to read his recent column declaring that, when it comes to Black America, “Better education is not leading to equality.”
June 26, 2020 via Flypaper (Fordham Education Blog) via Hoover Daily Report
Israel undoubtedly appreciates the UAE’s increasing willingness to engage. But the UAE’s statements reflect assumptions that Israel does not share.
June 29, 2020 via The Jerusalem Post via Hoover Daily Report
In past rioting, over the last 60 years, mayors, police chiefs, and governors restored law and order. They often beseeched the federal government for backup when they were unsure of their efforts.
June 26, 2020 via National Review via Hoover Daily Report
Progressives are bringing attacks on the federal courts to a new low. They began by launching a campaign of character assassination against Justice Brett Kavanaugh. While Democrats had mounted opposition to Samuel Alito and John Roberts for their past writings and official actions, they had not raised claims of sexual harassment since their failed effort to stop the nomination of Clarence Thomas (disclosure — I served as a law clerk for Justice Thomas).
June 26, 2020 via Daily Caller via Hoover Daily Report
As federal policymakers consider future legislation to address the economic challenges created by COVID-19, they should take the shortest route possible to get aid to those who need it. Where possible, the assistance should go directly to affected individuals and businesses, rather than through the states. If it’s not feasible for the aid to be sent to recipients directly, states should be held accountable for ensuring that those in need are actually getting it.
June 28, 2020 via The Hill via Hoover Daily Report
Physician and author Vivian Lee talks about her book The Long Fix with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Lee argues that we can transform health care in the United States, though it may take a while. She argues that the current fee-for-service system incentivizes doctors to provide services rather than keep patients healthy and that these are not the same thing.
June 28, 2020 via EconTalk via Hoover Daily Report
The CEO of Public Prep, a nonprofit charter school network, Ian Rowe, joins Paul Peterson to discuss the “common struggle” for civil rights in the aftermath of the death of George Floyd in police custody.
June 29, 2020 via The Education Exchange via Hoover Daily Report
On Thursday, June 25, Lester Grinspoon, M.D. died, one day after his 92nd birthday. This afternoon, I looked at my markups of two of his books, Marihuana Reconsidered, 2nd ed. 1977 and Cocaine: A Drug and Its Social Evolution, co-authored with James B. Bakalar.
June 29, 2020 via EconLog via Hoover Daily Report
Hoover Institution fellow Thomas Sowell discusses his new book Charter Schools and Their Enemies and Hoover Institution fellow John Yoo discusses last week’s curious Supreme Court DACA and Bostock decisions.
June 26, 2020 via The Ricochet Podcast via Hoover Daily Report
Hoover Institution fellow Scott Atlas discusses reopening the economy in the midst of the coronavirus crisis.
June 29, 2020 via The Morning Ritual with Garret Lewis via Hoover Daily Report
Hoover Institution fellow Victor Davis Hanson talks about the rioters attacking American statues.
June 26, 2020 via America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast via Hoover Daily Report
(Part 1) Hoover Institution fellow Richard Epstein discusses his Defining Ideas article "The Gorsuch Legal Alchemy."
June 26, 2020 via The John Batchelor Show via Hoover Daily Report
(Part 2) Hoover Institution fellow Richard Epstein discusses his Defining Ideas article "The Gorsuch Legal Alchemy."
June 26, 2020 via The John Batchelor Show via Hoover Daily Report
Hoover Institution fellow James Mattis discusses the future of US national security.
June 23, 2020 via Commonwealth Club of California Podcast via Hoover Daily Report
Hoover Institution fellow David Henderson discusses the economic and human costs of lock-downs.
June 28, 2020 via Worlds Apart via Hoover Daily Report
Hoover Institution fellow Steven Davis analyzes re-engineering your workforce for the COVID 19 Era.
June 24, 2020 via EPAY Systems via Hoover Daily Report
Dr. Thomas Sowell has been both a friend and a colleague of mine for over a half-century. On June 30, he will have completed his 90th year of life, and I want to highlight some important features of that life.
June 29, 2020 via Creators via Hoover Daily Report
On June 30, 2020, Thomas Sowell turns 90. He is one of the most important economic and social thinkers of the last 50 years. I say that, recognizing that his career overlapped such luminaries as Friedrich Hayek and Milton Friedman.
June 29, 2020 via CATO via Hoover Daily Report
Notable quotables from Armstrong Williams, Robert Johnson, Joe Biden, and more.
June 26, 2020 via Patriot Post via Hoover Daily Report
Fox News medical contributor Dr. Marc Siegel told “Tucker Carlson Tonight” on Friday that the coronavirus “may be getting weaker” as it continues to spread through the population.
June 27, 2020 via Daily Caller via Hoover Daily Report
With a deadly pandemic, a devastating recession, and massive civil rights protests across the country, the U.S. is facing a historically tumultuous election year.
June 28, 2020 via Valdosta Daily Times via Hoover Daily Report 
There's growing concern that some COVID-19 job losses will be permanent.
June 29, 2020 via IndyStar via Hoover Daily Report
Kentucky won’t have final results of last week’s state primary until Tuesday. New York could take twice as long. In Pennsylvania, the state’s largest city, Philadelphia, was still tallying mail-in ballots nearly two weeks after its June 2 primary.
June 27, 2020 via South Coast Today via Hoover Daily Report
Suppose you’re on a trip overseas and you need to buy a shirt, but you don’t know any of the brands. You see two shirts in a store that both look pretty good, but one costs twice as much as the other. You might assume that the more expensive shirt somehow is superior – that it’s better made or that the locals will see it as more stylish. You might decide it’s worth the price and spend the extra money.
June 27, 2020 via The National via Hoover Daily Report
What are the costs of kowtowing to China? India faces this question afresh after clashes on its disputed Himalayan boundary last week took the lives of 20 Indian soldiers and an unspecified number of Chinese troops.
June 25, 2020 via The Wall Street Journal via Hoover Daily Report
Seventy years ago, leading lights of the free world gathered in Berlin to push back against Soviet efforts to discredit liberal values. What can their efforts teach us today?
June 29, 2020 via American Interest via Hoover Daily Report
First there was Michael Moore’s Planet of the Humans, then came Bjorn Lomborg’s False Alarm, and now Michael Schellenberger’s Apocalypse Never.
June 26, 2020 via American Thinker via Hoover Daily Report
George Floyd’s murder and the unrest that has followed have caused many to think about ways they could be more inclusive in both their organizations and personal lives. One small way to be more inclusive is to read more books by Black authors
June 28, 2020 via The Daily Item via Hoover Daily Report
We live in a partisan age, and our news habits can reinforce our own perspectives. Consider this an effort to broaden our collective outlook with essays beyond the range of our typical selections.
June 28, 2020 via Tampa Bay Times via Hoover Daily Report
In Georgia, Gov. Brian Kemp has ordered a relaxing of essential business restrictions, overruling municipal stay-at-home orders. Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms is apoplectic. In New York, Gov. Andrew Cuomo and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio are at loggerheads over who gets to decide whether schools remained closed or open.
June 27, 2020 via Richmond Times-Dispatch via Hoover Daily Report
A defining feature of the Trump presidency has been the seemingly rock-solid support of his partisan base. When Donald Trump declared at a January 2016 campaign event in Iowa that “I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose voters,” most observers took it as hyperbole
June 27, 2020 via The Los Angeles Times via Hoover Daily Report
White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany responds to reports on Russian bounties, comments made by Speaker Pelosi.
June 29, 2020 via Fox News via Hoover Daily Report
“The Tubman Command” by Elizabeth Cobbs is the story of Harriet Tubman’s life in 1863. She is a spy for the Union side during the Civil War. She had tried to save her sisters’ lives when they were younger and stood before the auctioneer. But Harriet was not strong enough. Later, her husband, John, left her for a free woman, and Harriet decided she had no use for another man.
June 27, 2020 via Mendocino Beacon via Hoover Daily Report
The Brookings Papers on Economic Activity (BPEA) is a semi-annual academic conference and journal that pairs rigorous research with real-time policy analysis to address the most urgent economic challenges of the day. This year, we are adding a special third edition of reports and papers on COVID-19’s current and future impact on the economy.
June 25, 2020 via Brookings via Hoover Daily Report
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