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  1. Avoiding Greece’s Mistakes—While We Still Can
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    Avoiding Greece’s Mistakes—While We Still Can

    The United States can avoid the errors that savaged the Greek economy, but only if Washington makes a concerted effort to do so.

    January 27, 2016 by John B. Taylor via via Hoover Digest
    Too Strong to Fail
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    Too Strong to Fail

    Dodd-Frank’s selective scrutiny won’t prevent the next financial meltdown. What would? Insisting that financial institutions hold more capital.

    January 27, 2016 by Edward Paul Lazear via via Hoover Digest
    Where’s the Productivity?
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    Where’s the Productivity?

    Despite predictions, there’s little sign that automation is making economies more productive. How come?

    January 27, 2016 by Michael Spence via via Hoover Digest
    A Few Trillion Short
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    A Few Trillion Short

    Public-employee pensions are in a deeper financial hole than states admit—a much, much deeper hole.

    January 27, 2016 by Joshua D. Rauh via via Hoover Digest
    Myths of Redistribution
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    Myths of Redistribution

    Decrying the “income gap” may make for stirring political rhetoric, but we don’t need rhetoric. We need growth.

    January 27, 2016 by Allan H. Meltzer via via Hoover Digest
    Here’s Mud in Your Eye
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    Here’s Mud in Your Eye

    Politics in democracies have always been rough and tumble, and we’re better off because of it.

    January 27, 2016 by Bruce Thornton via via Hoover Digest
    The American Way of Refuge
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    The American Way of Refuge

    Offering sanctuary to Syrian exiles is both compassionate and wise—and just might give the United States a chance for a regional “reset.”

    January 27, 2016 by Kori Schake via via Hoover Digest
    Rescuing ObamaCare
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    Rescuing ObamaCare

    The best cure? High-deductible plans and health savings accounts.

    January 27, 2016 by Scott W. Atlas, John F. Cogan via via Hoover Digest
    China as an Ally in Cyberspace?
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    China as an Ally in Cyberspace?

    How Washington and Beijing could make common cause toward a secure online world.

    January 27, 2016 by Herbert Lin via via Hoover Digest
    The Future of Violence
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    The Future of Violence

    Coming to grips with dizzying change and vanishing borders.

    January 27, 2016 by Benjamin Wittes, Gabriella Blum via via Hoover Digest
    Foiling the Dirty Bomb
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    Foiling the Dirty Bomb

    How to head off the threat of a radiological weapon before it’s too late.

    January 27, 2016 by Sam Nunn, Andrew Bieniawski via via Hoover Digest
    Whose Standards?
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    Whose Standards?

    Parents of schoolchildren certainly support standardized tests; the Common Core, not so much. Highlights of the latest Education Next poll.

    January 27, 2016 by Michael Henderson, Paul E. Peterson, Martin R. West via via Hoover Digest
    Fight for the Bright
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    Fight for the Bright

    Our highest-achieving students have needs, too—and we’re failing to meet them.

    January 27, 2016 by Chester E. Finn Jr., Brandon L. Wright via via Hoover Digest
    Bad News Is Good News
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    Bad News Is Good News

    Low test scores may be unwelcome, but they’re entirely necessary. Parents shouldn’t shoot the messenger.

    January 27, 2016 by Michael J. Petrilli, Robert Pondiscio via via Hoover Digest
    Red Tide Ebbing
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    Red Tide Ebbing

    Although he may appear to have outmaneuvered Washington, Vladimir Putin has made missteps—and given the United States a chance to press for a democratic, responsible Russia.

    January 27, 2016 by Michael McFaul via via Hoover Digest
    Poorer, Yes. But Wiser?
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    Poorer, Yes. But Wiser?

    Political regimes in Greece used to be nasty, brutish, and short-lived. Has the country grown up at last?

    January 27, 2016 by Sir Niall Ferguson via via Hoover Digest
    A Rare Win-Win
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    A Rare Win-Win

    By improving the lives of Palestinians, Israelis could improve their own.

    January 27, 2016 by Stephen D. Krasner via via Hoover Digest
    A Chance for Iranian Reform
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    A Chance for Iranian Reform

    The Obama administration’s nuclear deal, many Iranians believe, could encourage changes in Iran itself.

    January 27, 2016 by Abbas Milani, Michael McFaul via via Hoover Digest
    And Now, the Fallout
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    And Now, the Fallout

    Regardless of what Iran gets out of the nuclear deal, its proxy Hezbollah clearly gains—and Israel clearly loses.

    January 27, 2016 by Peter Berkowitz via via Hoover Digest
    The Tyranny of Secular Faith
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    The Tyranny of Secular Faith

    Progressivism marches relentlessly toward its destination: the one true secular kingdom.

    January 27, 2016 by Peter Berkowitz via via Hoover Digest
    Don’t Bring Back the Draft
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    Don’t Bring Back the Draft

    Abolishing military conscription was a great victory for freedom. Here’s why the volunteer military should remain just that.

    January 27, 2016 by David R. Henderson via via Hoover Digest
    Beating the Drought, Aussie Style
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    Beating the Drought, Aussie Style

    The lesson California should learn from Australia: create a robust market to swap water.

    January 27, 2016 by Carson Bruno via via Hoover Digest
    The Man Who Was Right
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    The Man Who Was Right

    The late Hoover fellow Robert Conquest detailed communist horrors when nobody believed them, or wanted to believe.

    January 27, 2016 by John B. Dunlop, Norman M. Naimark via via Hoover Digest
    This Be His Verse
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    This Be His Verse

    As a poet, Robert Conquest could be subtle, blunt, or blue—or all three at once. A brief testament to a great talent.

    January 27, 2016 by John O'Sullivan via via Hoover Digest
    The Heroic Heart
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    The Heroic Heart

    Heroes still walk among us, but no longer must they kill to win glory. Instead the hero for our time is a healer.

    January 27, 2016 by Tod Lindberg via via Hoover Digest
    Heroes and Villains
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    Heroes and Villains

    If we start pulling down heroes who are imperfect, we should pull them all down. History is tragedy, and the players always human.

    January 27, 2016 by Victor Davis Hanson via via Hoover Digest
    “Long Telegram,” Long Shadow
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    “Long Telegram,” Long Shadow

    Seventy years have passed since diplomat George Kennan offered his penetrating advice. The story of one of the most important documents in American history.

    January 27, 2016 by Bertrand M. Patenaude via via Hoover Digest
    Sakharov and the Moral Imperative
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    Sakharov and the Moral Imperativesubscription

    “The truth is never simple,” said the celebrated Soviet dissident. His was indeed a complex life in complicated times.

    January 27, 2016 by Serge Schmemann via via Hoover Digest
    War Is . . . Soccer?
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    War Is . . . Soccer?

    Historic posters show how World War I combatants wove the beautiful game into images, and memories, of a far-from-beautiful war.

    January 27, 2016 by Jean McElwee Cannon via via Hoover Digest
    On the Cover
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    On the Cover

    During the Great War, making bombs, shells, bullets, and explosives was women’s work. In this British poster from the Hoover Archives, a young woman dresses for her job; in the background is one of the soldiers whose lives, according to the poster, depend on her.

    January 27, 2016 via via Hoover Digest
  1. And Now, the Fallout
  2. A Chance for Iranian Reform
  3. A Rare Win-Win
  4. Poorer, Yes. But Wiser?
  5. Red Tide Ebbing
  6. Bad News Is Good News
  7. Fight for the Bright
  8. Whose Standards?
  9. Foiling the Dirty Bomb
  10. On the Cover
  11. The Future of Violence
  12. War Is . . . Soccer?
  13. China as an Ally in Cyberspace?
  14. Sakharov and the Moral Imperative
  15. Rescuing ObamaCare
  16. The American Way of Refuge
  17. Here’s Mud in Your Eye
  18. “Long Telegram,” Long Shadow
  19. Myths of Redistribution
  20. Heroes and Villains
  21. The Heroic Heart
  22. This Be His Verse
  23. A Few Trillion Short
  24. Where’s the Productivity?
  25. Too Strong to Fail
  26. The Man Who Was Right
  27. Avoiding Greece’s Mistakes—While We Still Can
  28. Beating the Drought, Aussie Style
  29. Don’t Bring Back the Draft
  30. The Tyranny of Secular Faith
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