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Memory and Civic Education: The Perils of Cultural Amnesia
Hudson Institute, June 4, 2008
by Victor Davis Hanson (Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow).
THE TRADITIONAL—and classical—definition of civic education rested on the assumption of a people’s collective memory...
30 Years Ago in Reason
Reason, June 1, 2008
Alvin Rabushka (David and Joan Traitel Senior Fellow) is quoted in this article.
June 1978...
The Facebook Election
Reader's Digest, June 1, 2008
Morris P. Fiorina (Senior Fellow ) is quoted in this article.
The rally was held early in the Presidential cycle -- the first week of February 2007, a full 21 months before Election Day -- and its guest of honor wasn't yet an actual candidate...
Retired general speaks of war, family, GIs, diplomacy
Fort Worth Star-Telegram, May 16, 2008
John Abizaid (Annenberg Distingushed Visting Fellow) is interviewed in this article. Hoover Institution is mentioned in this article.
John Abizaid is of Lebanese descent, speaks Arabic and took over one of the nation's most important military positions at a critical time just after the toppling of Saddam Hussein in 2003...
Army's Next Crop of Generals Forged in Counterinsurgency
Washington Post, May 15, 2008
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Colonel H. R. McMaster (Research Fellow ) is quoted in this article.
An Army board headed by Gen. David H. Petraeus has selected several combat-tested counterinsurgency experts for promotion to the rank of brigadier general, sifting through more than 1,000 colonels to identify a handful of innovative leaders who will shape the future Army, according to current and former senior Army officers...
Tipping Economies of Scale
Creators Syndicate, May 15, 2008
by Thomas Sowell (Rose and Milton Friedman Senior Fellow on Public Policy).
In one of those typical San Francisco decisions that makes San Francisco a poster child for the liberal Left, the city’s Board of Supervisors is moving to block a paint store from renting a vacant building once used by a video rental shop...
Friedman Day shows government just keeps growing
Scripps News, May 15, 2008
Milton Friedman is quoted in this article.
On Monday, Americans finally will start working for themselves rather than for their government masters...
Troubled by bubbles: Central bankers re-examine the hands-off approach
Financial Times, May 15, 2008
John B. Taylor (Bowen H. and Janice Arthur McCoy Senior Fellow) is quoted in this article.
In the aftermath of the dotcom crash in 2002, Alan Greenspan famously argued that central banks had little power to stop bubbles inflating and then bursting...
War Over the War
Tribune Media Services, May 15, 2008
by Victor Davis Hanson (Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow).
The war in Iraq is in its sixth year — and we, the public, are in our sixth year of reading warring accounts about it...
David Davenport
townhall.com, May 15, 2008
. David Davenport (Counselor to the Director for External Relations and Research Fellow ) is interviewed.
Hugh discusses the presidential race and the "Evangelical Manifesto" with former Pepperdine president and current Hoover Institution scholar, David Davenport...
Poland is overtaking Britain on the road to Europe - and to the euro
Guardian, May 15, 2008
by Timothy Garton Ash (Senior Fellow).
In Krakow, Poland's Oxford, the Brits don't have a good reputation...
An Edwards VP?
Corner, National Review Online, May 15, 2008
by Victor Davis Hanson (Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow).
McCain should pray that Obama picks (he won't) John Edwards as VP—he brings no executive record of experience, and offers less ideological balance; he has a poor record of winning primaries over two failed runs for the Presidency, has never appealed to working-class whites, hurt the Kerry ticket as a mediocre VP candidate, did poorly in past and present debates, and went even harder to the left (in scripted fashion) in the primaries...
Europe's bad harvest
Guardian, May 15, 2008
by Henry I. Miller (Research Fellow ).
European Union officials continue to refuse to let the World Trade Organisation save them from themselves...
University Plans Institute To Honor Milton Friedman
Wall Street Journal, May 15, 2008
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Milton Friedman is featured in this article. Gary S. Becker (Rose-Marie and Jack R. Anderson Senior Fellow) is mentioned in this article.
The University of Chicago will announce Thursday that it plans to establish a center for economics honoring the late economist Milton Friedman...
Facts that contradict the ‘Big Lie’ about bio-crops
Financial Times, May 15, 2008
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by Henry I. Miller (Research Fellow ).
John Little (Letters, May 12) perpetuates much of the “Big Lie” about genetically modified food – namely, that it is untested, unregulated, unsafe and unwanted...
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