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May 22, 2012

Milton Friedman Sound Recordings Digitized

Milton Friedman Sound Recordings Digitized

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.

May 21, 2012 | Advancing a Free Society

2012 general election analysis—the view from the start line

Brady, Fiorina, and Frisby

In this podcast, three of Hoover's political scholars, David Brady, Morris Fiorina, and Tammy Frisby, discuss the two weeks down and the six months to go in the general election. Campaign issues—including the politics and policy of the president's announcement on gay marriage, personal qualities of the candidates, and campaign strategy—are the topics at hand. David Brady argues that this election could be 2004 all over again. Morris Fiorina disagrees, making the case for 1980 as likely being the better comparison. Tammy Frisby and Fiorina conclude with some thoughts on keeping the horse race in perspective.

May 21, 2012 | EconTalk

Coase on externalities, the firm, and the state of economics

Russell D. Roberts

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.”

May 17, 2012

Turmoil in the Middle East

Map of the Middle East

Hoover fellows comment on the events in the Middle East. Will the revolutions beget counterrevolutions and new rounds of repression and revolt?

The following are links to articles, videos, podcasts, and commentary by Hoover fellows concerning the mayhem in the Middle East.

May 16, 2012

Firing Line episodes available through Amazon Instant Video

William F. Buckley's Firing Line television series

More than one hundred seventy programs from William F. Buckley’s Firing Line television series are now available on Amazon Instant Video, which offers instant streaming on compatible devices.

May 15, 2012

Military history and contemporary conflict project

Victor Davis Hanson, Hoover Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow.

On Tuesday, May 15, 2012, a group of participants led by Victor David Hanson, the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, met to discuss the newly created Project for the Study of Military History and Contemporary Conflict. The project will reflect how military operations intersect with public policy and ideas defining a free society and offer commentary on current military operations in the context of military history. The participants include military historians, analysts, journalists, and military officers. Hoover research fellows Bruce Thornton, Joseph Felter, and Gil-li Vardi are among the participants.

May 15, 2012 | Townhall

Davenport notes that abandoning austerity is a mistake

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David Davenport, counselor to the director and a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, notes, on Townhall.com, that voters in Greece and France have ousted leaders who pursued economic austerity. Why? Is it because the alternative economic stimulus has worked so well in Germany and Sweden or because they lack the patience and character to see through a program of spending cuts and debt reduction?

May 15, 2012

A Screening of Age of Delirium: The Decline and Fall of the Soviet Union

Age of Delirium: The Decline and Fall of the Soviet Union

The Hoover Institution and the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies presented a screening of Age of Delirium: The Decline and Fall of the Soviet Union on May 16, 2012, at 6:30 pm at the Fisher Conference Center in the Arrillaga Alumni Association Building on the Stanford campus.

May 14, 2012 | Hoover Archivists' Musings (blog)

The Battle for Hearts and Minds

Max Gordon, US 6556, Poster collection, Hoover Institution Archives

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