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  1. Why Inflation Still Hurt
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    Why Inflation Still Hurt

    What matters to consumers, and will always matter, is the sharp change in the cost of living.

    October 9, 2024 by John H. Cochrane via via Hoover Digest
    Stay Home and Save
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    Stay Home and Save

    Why have wages risen so slowly? In part because millions of workers are accepting a different kind of compensation: the ability to work from home.

    October 9, 2024 by Steven J. Davis via via Hoover Digest
    Global Tax Versus the Facts
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    Global Tax Versus the Facts

    Taxes distort economic activity. A global minimum tax would distort it globally—and stall progress on reducing poverty.

    October 9, 2024 by Gregory Kearney, Joshua D. Rauh via via Hoover Digest
    On the “Eighth Day,” Strength
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    On the “Eighth Day,” Strength

    How can Israelis flourish again after the agony of October 7? By reasserting their identity as citizens of a state both Jewish and democratic.

    October 9, 2024 by Peter Berkowitz via via Hoover Digest
    Bleak October
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    Bleak October

    In recent years, Israeli military leaders shut their eyes to innovation—and stumbled badly. They thought they were Goliath. But as an Israeli strategist says, “we are still only David.” 

    October 9, 2024 by Eran Ortal via via Hoover Digest
    Impossible States
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    Impossible States

    A single state split between Arabs and Israelis would never work. And until there’s a peaceful, stable Palestinian society, neither would two separate states.

    October 9, 2024 by Hussain Abdul-Hussain via via Hoover Digest
    What Do We Want? Incoherence!
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    What Do We Want? Incoherence!

    Divestment, the pet cause of anti-Israel protesters, would not affect Israel in any way.

    October 9, 2024 by Kevin Hassett via via Hoover Digest
    The Myth of Accidental Wars
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    The Myth of Accidental Wars

    “Leaders start wars when they believe war will pay strategic dividends . . . not because their anger got the better of them.”

    October 9, 2024 by Matt Pottinger, Matthew Turpin via via Hoover Digest
    Dire Strait
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    Dire Strait

    The Taiwan Relations Act of forty-five years ago proved admirable enough, but it misjudged both China and Taiwan.

    October 9, 2024 by Miles Maochun Yu , Mike Pompeo via via Hoover Digest
    Five Russian Futures
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    Five Russian Futures

    Scenarios of transformation for Vladimir Putin, his people, and his state.

    October 9, 2024 by Stephen Kotkin via via Hoover Digest
    Suits of Financial Armor
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    Suits of Financial Armor

    Supplying weapons isn’t the only way we can help Ukraine. We can also make sure the sanctions against Russia really work.

    October 9, 2024 by Michael McFaul via via Hoover Digest
    Are We All Soviets Now?
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    Are We All Soviets Now?

    Central control of the economy, a fading military, cynicism, sickness: many Americans see the late USSR in the mirror.

    October 9, 2024 by Sir Niall Ferguson via via Hoover Digest
    Subversion, Submission
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    Subversion, Submission

    Islamist terrorism may have failed, but Islamist politics are proving remarkably—and alarmingly—successful. How the jihadists got good at the long game.

    October 9, 2024 by Ayaan Hirsi Ali via via Hoover Digest
    Victory at Sea
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    Victory at Sea

    In World War II, the merchant fleet served as the backbone of American sea power. Today, as China’s fleets surge ahead, the United States must restore its sealift capacity

    October 9, 2024 by Admiral Gary Roughead via via Hoover Digest
    Paperwork Broadsides
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    Paperwork Broadsides

    Studies, studies, everywhere—but not a drop of action. Washington needs to stop issuing reports and start rebuilding our defenses.

    October 9, 2024 by Nadia Schadlow via via Hoover Digest
    Batteries Included
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    Batteries Included

    The complex, costly future of electrical distribution belongs to smart grids.

    October 9, 2024 by Michael Spence via via Hoover Digest
    Freedom from Fear?
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    Freedom from Fear?

    The climate “crisis” is yielding to climate fatigue. And as panic fades, realistic and informed views are taking its place.

    October 9, 2024 by Steven Koonin via via Hoover Digest
    Crossed Wires
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    Crossed Wires

    The electric-car tax credit may be a boon to Chinese miners, but it’s a lousy deal for American taxpayers.

    October 9, 2024 by Oliver McPherson-Smith via via Hoover Digest
    Teaching Bad
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    Teaching Bad

    Are bad teachers really schools’ biggest problem? Or are bad incentives?

    October 9, 2024 by Michael J. Petrilli via via Hoover Digest
    Teach Our Children Well
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    Teach Our Children Well

    Americans have drifted far from our founding values. Civic education could bring us back.

    October 9, 2024 by David Davenport via via Hoover Digest
    The Parents Strike Back
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    The Parents Strike Back

    Teachers’ unions vilified the families who opposed COVID school closures. In response, parents set out to do the job the teachers refused to do.

    October 9, 2024 by Corey DeAngelis via via Hoover Digest
    Unhappy Meals
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    Unhappy Meals

    At the time of publication, the author cited data reported by the Wall Street Journal, and interpreted those data as being seasonally adjusted. Following publication, those data were identified as not being seasonally adjusted, the article has been retracted to avoid any misinformation that can be attributed to the article.

    October 9, 2024 by Lee Ohanian via via Hoover Digest
    The End of Everything
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    The End of Everything

    In his new book, celebrated Hoover historian Victor Davis Hanson explores the deaths of entire civilizations—calamities of a kind that can, he assures us, happen again.

    October 9, 2024 by Peter M. Robinson interview with Victor Davis Hanson via via Hoover Digest
    “Get Serious, Very Fast”
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    “Get Serious, Very Fast”

    Correspondent and writer Douglas Murray reports on the agonies of Israel and Ukraine—and the dangers that now face Britain, Europe, and the United States. “Something is going to happen. I don’t know what. But something is going to happen.”

    October 9, 2024 by Peter M. Robinson interview with Douglas Murray via via Hoover Digest
    “I Had to Tell It All”
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    “I Had to Tell It All”

    Glenn Loury on his traumatic past, his “struggle for selfcommand,” and the new memoir in which he tells the story.

    October 9, 2024 by Russ Roberts interview with Glenn Loury via via Hoover Digest
    Frontiers in Flames
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    Frontiers in Flames

    Unrest, turmoil, repeated violence—borderlands such as Ukraine have been always thus. How great powers have managed disruptive states in zones of tumult.

    October 9, 2024 by Jakub Grygiel, A. Wess Mitchell via via Hoover Digest
    Return to Watergate
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    Return to Watergate

    The story of the Nixon presidency and its downfall seems fixed in amber. After fifty years, it’s time to explore new research and write new histories.

    October 9, 2024 by Luke A. Nichter via via Hoover Digest
    Documenting Communism
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    Documenting Communism

    The secret Soviet archives represent one of Hoover’s most valuable collections. Library & Archives director emeritus Charles G. Palm describes the feat of exquisite personal diplomacy—from Palo Alto to the Kremlin itself—that enabled Hoover to obtain them.

    October 9, 2024 by Jonathan Movroydis interview with Charles G. Palm via via Hoover Digest
    On the Cover
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    On the Cover

    Artist Michael Ramus (1917–2005), commissioned to portray one of the US Army’s “239 kinds of jobs for women” during World War II, picked a woman repairing a radio in this 1944 poster kept in the Hoover Archives. 

    October 9, 2024 via via Hoover Digest
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  1. On the Cover
  2. Documenting Communism
  3. Return to Watergate
  4. Frontiers in Flames
  5. “I Had to Tell It All”
  6. “Get Serious, Very Fast”
  7. The End of Everything
  8. Unhappy Meals
  9. The Parents Strike Back
  10. Teach Our Children Well
  11. Teaching Bad
  12. Crossed Wires
  13. Freedom from Fear?
  14. Batteries Included
  15. Paperwork Broadsides
  16. Victory at Sea
  17. Subversion, Submission
  18. Are We All Soviets Now?
  19. Suits of Financial Armor
  20. Five Russian Futures
  21. Dire Strait
  22. The Myth of Accidental Wars
  23. What Do We Want? Incoherence!
  24. Impossible States
  25. Bleak October
  26. On the “Eighth Day,” Strength
  27. Global Tax Versus the Facts
  28. Stay Home and Save
  29. Why Inflation Still Hurt
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