OP-EDS AND COMMENTARY BY HOOVER FELLOWS

More Iraqi Ironies
Tribune Media Services, July 18, 2008
by Victor Davis Hanson (Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow).

There is by now only one constant in the entire sad Iraqi saga since the brilliant three-week victory of 2003, and the subsequent violent reconstruction that followed...

Iraq needs a strong surge of diplomacy
Washington Examiner, July 17, 2008
by Larry Diamond (Senior Fellow).

Iraq’s fundamental problem remains the lack of a broad political agreement on the constitutional shape of the country...

ARTICLES ABOUT THE HOOVER INSTITUTION AND ITS FELLOWS

Becker’s pioneering work garners 2008 Bradley Prize
University of Chicago Chronicle, July 17, 2008
Gary S. Becker (Rose-Marie and Jack R. Anderson Senior Fellow) is featured in this article. Victor Davis Hanson (Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow) is mentioned in this article.

Gary Becker, University Professor in Economics and the Graduate School of Business, was one of four individuals to receive a 2008 Bradley Prize last month at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C...

Chicago in the News
University of Chicago Chronicle, July 17, 2008
Gary S. Becker (Rose-Marie and Jack R. Anderson Senior Fellow) is quoted in this article.

The Chronicle’s biweekly column Chicago In the News offers a digest of commentary and quotations by a few of the University faculty members, students and alumni who have been headlining the news in recent weeks...

Inflation and the Bush Legacy
Wall Street Journal, July 17, 2008 (Subscription Required)
Milton Friedman is mentioned in this article.

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke clings to an easy money policy while assuring us that he is keeping an eye on inflation...

Concern grows over a fiscal crisis for U.S.
San Francisco Chronicle, July 17, 2008
John Shoven (Buzz and Barbara McCoy Senior Fellow) is quoted in this article.

As the Bush administration proposes backstopping mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac with a $300 billion line of credit and Congress contemplates another economic stimulus, the question is who will bail out the government?...

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Law & Jihad with Andrew McCarthy: Chapter 5 of 5
Uncommon Knowledge, July 18, 2008
by Peter M. Robinson (Research Fellow).

Is there a way to balance war and the “rule of law”?...

Getting a handle on stagflation
CNN, July 18, 2008
. Michael J. Boskin (Senior Fellow) is quoted.

Sure, inflation is scary, but the real boogeyman in the economy is stagflation...

Summer Madness
Works and Days, July 17, 2008
by Victor Davis Hanson (Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow).

So an exasperated Sen. Barbara Boxer screams that the farm-belt senators better support her regional selfishness in opposing California off-shore drilling against the national interest, in the same manner she went along with the ethanol boondoggle...

Getting it Backwards
Huffington Post, July 17, 2008
. Chester E. Finn Jr. (Senior Fellow ) is mentioned.

Those who dispense anxiety about America's schools have got it all backwards...

An Uncomfortable Conversation about Nukes
Foreign Policy In Focus, July 17, 2008
. William J. Perry (Senior Fellow) and George P. Shultz (Thomas W. and Susan B. Ford Distinguished Fellow) are mentioned.

Why are Henry Kissinger, George Shultz, William Perry, and Sam Nunn writing opinion pieces in the Wall Street Journal calling for the abolition of nuclear weapons?...

The Vision Vacuum
Education Week, July 17, 2008
. Diane Ravitch (Senior Fellow) is mentioned.

"You're too young to be this cynical, " he said, staring across his desk at me with a perplexed half smile...

Consumer Price Index Report Adds to Economic Woes
The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, July 16, 2008
. Michael J. Boskin (Senior Fellow) is interviewed.

Rising consumer prices are raising Americans' cost of living, adding to economic woes, according to a new economic report...

Smart Power Speaker Series: Reducing the Global Nuclear Threat
Center for Strategic and International Studies, July 15, 2008
by William J. Perry (Senior Fellow).

The Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS) hosted a Smart Power Speaker Series event with former Secretary of Defense William J. Perry, who discussed how future administrations should move towards a smarter nuclear policy...

FACTS ON POLICY: Demographics—Hispanics
Hoover Institution, July 15, 2008
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Did you Know. . .? Hispanics are now the largest minority group in the United States...

George Shultz: The Hoover Institution and Nuclear Freedom
ForaTv, June 27, 2008
by George P. Shultz (Thomas W. and Susan B. Ford Distinguished Fellow).

George P. Shultz comments on the philosophy of the Hoover Institution in getting involved in conferences around the world which seek to advance the idea of a world free of nuclear weapons...

NEWS RELEASES ABOUT THE HOOVER INSTITUTION AND ITS FELLOWS

CHI to Host Conversation with George Shultz and Biomedical Industry to Address Healthcare Reform and Income Security
Business Wire, July 17, 2008
George P. Shultz (Thomas W. and Susan B. Ford Distinguished Fellow) and John Shoven (Buzz and Barbara McCoy Senior Fellow) are mentioned in this news release.

California Healthcare Institute: George Shultz, Distinguished Fellow, Hoover Institution, and John Shoven, Director, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, co-authors of Putting Our House in Order: A Guide to Social Security & Health Care Reform, and Hank Nordhoff, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Gen-Probe Incorporated, as moderator...