Victor Davis Hanson, the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, weighs in the Obama administration’s handling of Benghazi, the IRS, and the AP’s subpoena. Hanson notes that the Obama scandals are similar to those of the Nixon administration in 1973–74.

In this podcast Russell Roberts, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and EconTalk host, discusses, with Richard Epstein, the Peter and Kirsten Bedford Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, the US Constitution. Topics covered in this wide-ranging conversation include how the interpretation of the Constitution has changed over time, the relationship between state and federal power, judicial activism, the increasing importance of administrative agencies' regulatory power, and political influences on the Supreme Court.

Fouad Ajami, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and cochair of the Working Group on Islamism and the International Order, discusses Turkey’s Prime Minister Erdogan and the dilemma he is in because of the Syrian provocations. Erdogan threatens dire consequences, yet draws back, sheltered behind the assertion that his country won’t be drawn into a full-scale war with the regime in Damascus.

Victor Davis Hanson, the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, discusses his book The Savior Generals: How Five Great Commanders Saved Wars That Were Lost—from Ancient Greece to Iraq.