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    Area 45: Seven Weeks To Election Day
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    Area 45: Seven Weeks To Election Day

    The November elections – a big “blue wave” or not?

    September 20, 2018 interview with David Brady, Douglas Rivers via undefined via Matters of Policy & Politics
    Oh, What A Tangled Web
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    Oh, What A Tangled Web

    The likely justification of the Republican majority for agreeing to a rehearing of the Kavanaugh nomination was political, not legal: Senate Republicans apparently worried that in-party potential No-voters on Kavanaugh, such as Senators Corker, Flake, or Collins, might become emboldened by an outright refusal to hear Professor Ford’s narratives or that independent women voters would be alienated by “silencing” the accuser.

    September 19, 2018 by Victor Davis Hanson via National Review via Hoover Daily Report
    Supply-Side Health Care
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    Supply-Side Health Care

    The discussion over health policy rages over who will pay -- private insurance, companies, "single payer," Obamacare, VA, Medicare, Medicaid, and so on -- as if once that's decided everything is all right -- as if once we figure out who is paying the check, the provision of health care is as straightforward a service as the provision of restaurant food, tax advice, contracting services, airline travel, car repair, or any other reasonably functional market for complex services.

    September 19, 2018 by John H. Cochrane via Grumpy Economist via Hoover Daily Report
    Anti-Liberal Zealotry Part II: The Crux Of Deneen's Critique Of Liberalism
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    Anti-Liberal Zealotry Part II: The Crux Of Deneen's Critique Of Liberalism

    Patrick Deneen, professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame, has written an angry and breathless polemic against liberalism in the large sense — that is, the school of political thought that holds that human beings are by nature free and equal, and that the chief purpose of government is to secure individual rights.

    September 19, 2018 by Peter Berkowitz via Real Clear Policy via Hoover Daily Report
    Analysis and Commentary
    Kids Don't Know Enough About Civics — But This Could Save Them
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    Kids Don't Know Enough About Civics — But This Could Save Them

    An important life was cut short this week in Ashland, Ohio, when 44-year-old Roger Beckett passed away. As executive director of the Ashbrook Center, Roger’s noble goal was nothing less than saving the republic by strengthening America’s anemic approach to civic education. The tool he chose to do this was both surprising and powerful: training and retraining teachers of history and civics to teach using primary documents.

    September 20, 2018 by David Davenport via Washington Examiner via Hoover Daily Report
    Oh Say Can You Reform CEQA? Not On Jerry Brown’s Watch
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    Oh Say Can You Reform CEQA? Not On Jerry Brown’s Watch

    After spending more time online researching than I care to admit, I’m ready to admit defeat: I still don’t know if California Governor Jerry Brown is a sportsman.

    September 19, 2018 by Bill Whalen via undefined via California on Your Mind
    How To Reverse Grade Inflation And Help Students Reach Their Potential
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    How To Reverse Grade Inflation And Help Students Reach Their Potential

    Many of us, if we’re lucky, can fondly recall a time in elementary school when our parents proudly posted one of our A papers on the refrigerator door. Maybe it was a spelling test or set of multiplication problems—no matter. What mattered, though, was the outstanding achievement that mom, dad, and kid believed was embodied in that A, and the pride and satisfaction that we felt in seeing it every time we opened the fridge for a sandwich.

    September 19, 2018 by Amber M. Northern, Michael J. Petrilli via Flypaper (Fordham Education Blog) via Hoover Daily Report
    Should The Voting Age Be Lowered?
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    Should The Voting Age Be Lowered?

    Following the student protests against gun violence in school has come a renewed call to allow 16- and 17-year-olds to vote. But it would be a mistake to lower the voting age. Demonstrating is not the same as voting, which requires a higher level of civic responsibility and knowledge.

    September 3, 2018 by David Davenport via The New York Times Upfront via Hoover Daily Report
    U.S. Foreign Policy Faces Grave Danger, Part 1
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    U.S. Foreign Policy Faces Grave Danger, Part 1

    This is the first in a series of posts explaining why. Before laying out the argument, let’s backtrack to the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and Syria. How many politicians, generals, diplomats, and prominent experts in universities and think tanks, some serving in the Bush and Obama administrations, would claim in late 2018 that these military operations were successful?

    September 18, 2018 by Alvin Rabushka via Thoughtful Ideas via Hoover Daily Report
    Does Monopsony Lead To Lower Prices?
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    Does Monopsony Lead To Lower Prices?

    In an unusually critical and mainly on-target criticism of one commenter’s critiques of Amazon, Tyler Cowen writes: First, monopsony and monopoly tend to have contrasting or opposite effects. To the extent Amazon is a monopsony, that leads to higher output and lower prices.

    September 19, 2018 by David R. Henderson via EconLog via Hoover Daily Report
    Rogge's Effect On Trade
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    Rogge's Effect On Trade

    To the direct success we have achieved—the sinking of fifteen ships of more than 100,000 tons aggregate, often with most valuable cargo—should be added the indirect effect on the trade war, such the tying-down of warships and the diversion of merchant ships near the coast, which must have resulted in a higher consumption of fuel and a slower turn-round of the ships.

    September 20, 2018 by David R. Henderson via EconLog via Hoover Daily Report
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    Bill Whalen: Is The GOP Afraid Of How The Kavanaugh Hearings Might Affect The Midterms?
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    Bill Whalen: Is The GOP Afraid Of How The Kavanaugh Hearings Might Affect The Midterms?

    Hoover Institution fellow Bill Whalen discusses how Christine Blasey Ford's sexual assault allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh could drum up support for Democrats in a midterm election where a record number of women are running for office.

    September 19, 2018 interview with Bill Whalen via KCBS (CA) via Hoover Daily Report
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    Announcing The Forthcoming Book By Victor Davis Hanson: The Case For Trump
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    Announcing The Forthcoming Book By Victor Davis Hanson: The Case For Trump

    Our friends at Basic Books have asked us to make an important announcement — one we believe will be of great interest to NR readers. So we are happy to do the honors: Basic today formally announces that it will publish a major new work by NRO columnist Victor Davis Hanson, The Case for Trump.

    September 20, 2018 featuring Victor Davis Hanson via National Review via Hoover Daily Report
    Martin Feldstein On A Financial Crisis To Rival The Great Depression
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    Martin Feldstein On A Financial Crisis To Rival The Great Depression

    Martin Feldstein, Harvard economics professor, former Chairman of the President’s Council of Economic Advisors, and president emeritus of the US National Bureau of Economic Research, has put it very bluntly: “The next US bear market is likely to be caused by a spike in 10-year Treasury yields….”

    September 19, 2018 featuring Martin Feldstein via Seeking Alpha via Hoover Daily Report
    GOP Pushes Kavanaugh Accuser To Testify About Sexual Assault Allegation, But Risks A #MeToo Backlash
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    GOP Pushes Kavanaugh Accuser To Testify About Sexual Assault Allegation, But Risks A #MeToo Backlash

    Republicans hardened their position and closed ranks Wednesday in the handling of sexual assault allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, ramping up their rhetoric and unifying around the idea that his accuser should testify — publicly or privately — by Monday.

    September 19, 2018 quoting David Brady via Los Angeles Times via Hoover Daily Report
    Martin Feldstein: Next Recession Will Erase $10 Trillion
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    Martin Feldstein: Next Recession Will Erase $10 Trillion

    Harvard Economist Martin Feldstein warns that the next economic downturn could rival the Great Depression and wipe $10 trillion off U.S. household assets. “We have no ability to turn the economy around,” said Feldstein, the president emeritus of the U.S. National Bureau of Economic Research.

    September 18, 2018 quoting Martin Feldstein via Wheaton Business Journal via Hoover Daily Report
    Merkel Coalition Slides Into 'Permanent Crisis Mode' With Spy Row
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    Merkel Coalition Slides Into 'Permanent Crisis Mode' With Spy Row

    A clumsy compromise to end a row over the fate of Germany’s spy chief has exposed a cruel fact: the parties in Chancellor Angela Merkel’s right-left coalition are loveless partners in a dysfunctional relationship that none of them can afford to quit.

    September 19, 2018 quoting Josef Joffe via Reuters via Hoover Daily Report
    Liberal Presumptions, Take Two (Updated)
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    Liberal Presumptions, Take Two (Updated)

    A couple days back I posted a long item about the presumptions of the contemporary liberal mind that act like garish wallpaper—unnoticed by the residents of the house of liberalism, but jarring to anyone else who steps inside.

    September 18, 2018 quoting Jennifer Burns via Powerline via Hoover Daily Report
    Game Of Survival Of The Fittest Not Sustainable, Says Senior Chinese Official
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    Game Of Survival Of The Fittest Not Sustainable, Says Senior Chinese Official

    In a world facing increasing protectionism, a game of survival of the fittest where the strong wipe out the weak and a zero-sum game may prevail for a short while but will not become mainstream, a senior Chinese official said.

    September 19, 2018 mentioning Thomas J. Sargent via Straits Times (Taiwan) via Hoover Daily Report
  1. Area 45: Seven Weeks To Election Day
  2. Announcing The Forthcoming Book By Victor Davis Hanson: The Case For Trump
  3. Rogge's Effect On Trade
  4. Kids Don't Know Enough About Civics — But This Could Save Them
  5. Oh Say Can You Reform CEQA? Not On Jerry Brown’s Watch
  6. Supply-Side Health Care
  7. Bill Whalen: Is The GOP Afraid Of How The Kavanaugh Hearings Might Affect The Midterms?
  8. Game Of Survival Of The Fittest Not Sustainable, Says Senior Chinese Official
  9. Merkel Coalition Slides Into 'Permanent Crisis Mode' With Spy Row
  10. GOP Pushes Kavanaugh Accuser To Testify About Sexual Assault Allegation, But Risks A #MeToo Backlash
  11. How To Reverse Grade Inflation And Help Students Reach Their Potential
  12. Martin Feldstein On A Financial Crisis To Rival The Great Depression
  13. Oh, What A Tangled Web
  14. Does Monopsony Lead To Lower Prices?
  15. Anti-Liberal Zealotry Part II: The Crux Of Deneen's Critique Of Liberalism
  16. Liberal Presumptions, Take Two (Updated)
  17. U.S. Foreign Policy Faces Grave Danger, Part 1
  18. Martin Feldstein: Next Recession Will Erase $10 Trillion
  19. Should The Voting Age Be Lowered?
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