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(LAST 7 DAYS)
1. Not Appeasement
As the world sees it, America tends to dash off to war without moral
authority. How we could change that view. By Shelby Steele.
2. Dollars to Doughnuts
Lots of Americans are overweight, but obesity is not a public health crisis. By Jay Bhattacharya.
3. How to Cure Health Care
The United States spends a mind-boggling percentage of its GDP on a health care system that virtually everyone agrees is a disaster. Is there any way out of this mess? There is—and Hoover fellow Milton Friedman has found it.
4. A Business Model for Foreign Labor
How to tame a vast illegal enterprise, for everyone’s benefit. By Timothy Charles Brown.
5. The Changing American Family
During the past 20 years, the American family has undergone a profound transformation. By Herbert S. Klein.
6. Hurley’s Dream
How FDR almost brought democracy to Iran. By Abbas Milani.
7. The Great Terror at 40
As his classic work is republished, Robert Conquest reflects on how
it threw open the doors of the Gulag’s secrets.
8. How Not to Fix the Economy
Bailouts, protectionism, higher tax rates, new spending—these are
supposed to help? By Michael J. Boskin.
9. Documents from the Terror
From 1936 to 1938, Stalin conducted a campaign of terror against his own citizens. Documents now in the possession of the Hoover Institution Archives provide grisly details. By Gordon M. Hahn.
10. What I Found in Mr. Hoover's Papers
Herbert Hoover understood that history is to be discovered not just in official documents but in the little details of the past. By Robert Service.
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