January 2010 Archives
Arne Duncan: Katrina was “the best thing that happened to the education system in New Orleans”
“ABC News’ Mary Bruce Reports: Education Secretary Arne Duncan said today that Hurricane Katrina was ‘the best thing that...
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A tribute to Robert Park, martyr for something worth martyrdom
Claudia Rossett reminds us that there were really two Christmas day martyrs. One was the wretched rich boy Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, whose indulgent father tried pathetically to stop him from killing himself and 300 other innocents. The other "was a 28
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Microfinance: Translating Research into Practice
Amol Agrawal, a Mumbai-based economist and investment analyst, blogs
intelligently about the fashionable subject of microfinance, and
presents all-too-rare research on its practical impact in various
Indian deployments (from a recent conference, "Microfinance
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Sadly, the catastrophe in Haiti has many precedents: let's learn from them
Such is the sensible advice of John Simon, former Senior Director for Relief, Stabilization, and Development on the National Security Council. He's thinking of the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004, the South Asia earthquake of 2005, and the Chengdu earthqua
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James Guthrie: the coming fiscal disaster for public schools and how schools must adapt
The growth path in education spending since the 1920s has been
astonishing, according to Bush Institute Fellow Jim Guthrie: per pupil
spending rose 70 percent and teachers per pupil rose by about 50
percent. But it is inevitable that this growth w
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A conversation with Mark Dybul and other participants in PEPFAR on Public Radio's "America Abroad"
A recent episode of America Abroad radio examined "the Bush Administration's unprecedented Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief that has provided life-saving treatment for over two million Africans." Host Ray Suarez interviews Fellow Mark Dybul, Warren Buckingham,
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Dybul on Uganda's tragedy: a key ally in the war against AIDS turns on its own gay citizens
Uganda, notorious for considering legislation that would outlaw homosexuality and punish gay men and women, actually has been a leader among African nations in the battle against AIDS. Bush Institute Fellow Mark Dybul writes: "The practical impact of the law wil
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The American left begins to gag on Castro's Cuba
In an exciting
and knowledgeable piece, Ron Radosh writes: "recently, it appears that
the once monolithic support by the American Left to the Cuban
Revolution is beginning to dissipate. Two surprising examples of this
have just now come to light."
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Virtual immigration - what it is and how it benefits US workers
W. Michael Cox (also director of the William J. O'Neil Center for
Global Markets and Freedom at SMU's Cox School of Business), Richard
Alm and Justyna Dymerska show how technology permits "virtual
immigration" which allows "highly paid workers in the U.S." to sell
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The Paul Krugman nobody knows: an admirable theorist and stalwart defender of international trade
Paul Krugman writes a beautiful little essay on international trade,
demonstrating his subtle, open-minded, and masterful understanding of
the subject: an implicit demonstration of how free trade is generally a
good thing for all, a splendid overview of how t
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