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As a respite from a daylong series of meetings at Stanford University, Turkish president Abdullah Gül and First Lady Hayrünnisa Gül visited the Hoover Tower on Wednesday, May 23, 2012, for a bird's-eye view of the campus and the Bay Area. Hoover fellow Condoleezza Rice escorted the president to the observation deck, which stands 280 feet above ground. Completed in 1941, the Hoover Tower is a university and local icon. Click here for more information.
The newest essay, “To Confront Cyber Threats, We Must Rethink the Law of Armed Conflict,” by Jeremy and Ariel Rabkin, is available on the Emerging Threats essay series page. In this essay the authors discuss deliberate attacks on websites and computer networks, so-called cyber attacks, that are part of life on the Internet, with some foreign governments encouraging, assisting, or directing such attacks. In a serious international crisis, similar attacks might be launched with dire consequences.
This week on Uncommon Knowledge author and television host John Stossel discusses his new book No, They Can’t: Why Government Fails—but Individuals Succeed. (45:18)
“Market competition is cruel. There are winners and losers. But that is better than the alternative where there are only losers.”

During a recent archival reconnaissance expedition to Latvia, in advance of yet another Hoover digitization project in the countries of the former USSR, Stanford history professor Amir Weiner came across an account of a 1967 visit to Stanford by Aleksandrs Drizulis, a high Soviet Communist Party official and historian. The following text is from Drizulis’s presentation to party activists on April 18, 1968.

As recently announced in Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, the inventory for the American Association for Higher Education (AAHE) records is now available online. The collection consists of the association's conference materials, publications, project files, correspondence, and meeting minutes, all relating to higher education in the United States.

More than two hundred fifty audiotapes in the Milton Friedman papers are available for listening after having been digitized by Hoover's audio lab. The earliest, recorded in 1961, captures a debate between Friedman and Senator Joseph Clark on the proper role of the federal government in which Friedman frames his argument around a critique of John F. Kennedy's inaugural address.

From the introduction to the exhibit "The Battle for Hearts and Minds: World War II Propaganda" currently on display at the Hoover Institution, by Dr. George H. Nash

Edward Lazear, the Morris Arnold Cox Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and former chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, shares his perspective on the potential tax increases and spending cuts.

In this podcast Russell Roberts, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and EconTalk host, discusses, with Nobel laureate Ronald Coase of the University of Chicago, Coase’s career, the current state of economics, and the Chinese economy. Coase, born in 1910, reflects on his youth and his two great papers, “The Nature of the Firm” and “The Problem of Social Cost.”

Tammy Frisby, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, discusses, with NBC Bay Area's Brent Cannon, how to solve California's budget woes.

Fouad Ajami, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and cochair of the Working Group on Islamism and the International Order, says President Obama may regret not helping people in Syria the way President Clinton regrets not stepping in to stop the genocide in Rwanda.

Bill Whalen, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution where he studies and writes on current events and political trends, discusses President Obama’s support of same-sex marriage and what this decision may mean for the presidential election.