In the Wall Street Journal, Hoover Institution Fellow Josef Joffe asks: why did Vladimir Putin thumb his nose at the U. S. in the Snowden affair? The answer is pretty easy–because he knew he could get away with it. And why? Well, the old KGB veteran looked at the Obama trend line since January 2009: […]
Archives for August 2013
A Scathing Indictment of Teacher Preparation
In June, the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) released its long-awaited report on teacher preparation and, to the surprise of almost no one, it was a devastating critique of the nation’s colleges of education. The full report, which provides data on 1,130 institutions and ratings for 608 of them based on a rigorous […]
The Jobs Doldrums Continue
This administration is entering uncharted territory in terms of its failure of policy for economic growth. In fact, most of what passes for policy, such as Obamacare, the Dodd-Frank bill, and various regulatory initiatives has been destructive to job growth, while Federal Reserve monetary policy continues to misallocate and pervert the pricing of capital. Recent […]
More on Middle Class Revolution
Last month I commented on Francis Fukuyama’s essay on worldwide political turmoil led by the new middle classes in emerging countries and the degree to which it is being driven by the failure of governments to meet the rising expectations of the newly prosperous and educated. Recently, Alan Murray, President of the Pew Research Center, […]
The Zimmerman Case
I didn’t want to write about this case because I felt it was an all too typically contrived media event, and to a large extent it was just that. But in another sense it grew into something else, and the something else, based on media bias in the coverage and professional race hustling in […]
Detroit is a Very Big Deal
The bankruptcy of Detroit should be watched very closely, not simply because of its immediate financial impact on the country and the pain of its citizens, which are important, nor even because it will be the model for probably many more such reorganizations to come, but because it will be a major turning point for […]