https://www.hoover.org/ en https://www.hoover.org/research/victor-davis-hanson-deep-pockets-and-deep-throat-californias-homeless-nprs-politics Hoover Institution fellow Victor Davis Hanson discusses the blight of California’s homelessness contrasted against California's natural beauty, the logic of applying the laws equally, colleges in a doom loop, the open border being a win-win for Dems, and the unknown knowns of NPR’s leftism. April 18, 2024 April 18, 2024 https://www.hoover.org/research/victor-davis-hanson-deep-pockets-and-deep-throat-californias-homeless-nprs-politics https://www.hoover.org/research/cashless-digital-currency-future-finance-darrell-duffie Hoover Institution fellow Darrell Duffie discusses the benefits of central bank digital currencies (CBDC), that include improved financial inclusion, lower cross-border payment costs, and more timely and secure transaction processing. Duffie sees two major impediments — privacy concerns and the potential impact on the US dollar's global dominance. April 18, 2024 April 18, 2024 https://www.hoover.org/research/cashless-digital-currency-future-finance-darrell-duffie https://www.hoover.org/research/why-solar-and-wind-power-arent-winning All-in costs are too high once you count fossil fuel and battery backups, land requirements, and the damage their equipment does. April 18, 2024 April 18, 2024 https://www.hoover.org/research/why-solar-and-wind-power-arent-winning https://www.hoover.org/research/lost-art Art can be a disappearing act. An object can disappear into a private collection, or be snapped up by an overseas buyer. Some art is temporary by design, or at least only temporarily on display, like the “Fourth Plinth” sculptures on London’s Trafalgar Square. Sometimes art goes for political reasons: America was divided and transfixed first by the removal, then the destruction, of the equestrian statue of Robert E. Lee, which, until recently, stood in a public park in Charlottesville.  April 18, 2024 April 18, 2024 https://www.hoover.org/research/lost-art https://www.hoover.org/research/our-woke-rackets We know who will pay the bill. April 18, 2024 April 18, 2024 https://www.hoover.org/research/our-woke-rackets https://www.hoover.org/research/whee-nation-flies-past-another-trillion-dollar-milestone What the Fed calls “climate-related financial risks” are fictitious. This column has previously noted that the Hoover Institution’s John Cochrane is correct: Measurable climate risk to the financial system’s “resilience” in the time frame that regulation can foresee and control — five years or so — simply does not exist. April 18, 2024 April 18, 2024 https://www.hoover.org/research/whee-nation-flies-past-another-trillion-dollar-milestone https://www.hoover.org/research/how-achieve-speed-and-scale-clean-energy-transition “We need to figure out for each of these technologies what is already going on at the gigaton-scale – like natural cycles, like agriculture – and see what we can do to tweak it in the right way so that you can create a market and use market mechanisms to scale it,” said Hoover Institution fellow Arun Majumdar, the inaugural dean of the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability. April 18, 2024 April 18, 2024 https://www.hoover.org/research/how-achieve-speed-and-scale-clean-energy-transition https://www.hoover.org/research/five-futures-russia-and-how-america-can-prepare-whatever-comes-next Vladimir Putin happened to turn 71 last October 7, the day Hamas assaulted Israel. The Russian president took the rampage as a birthday present; it shifted the context around his aggression in Ukraine. Perhaps to show his appreciation, he had his Foreign Ministry invite high-ranking Hamas representatives to Moscow in late October, highlighting an alignment of interests.  April 18, 2024 April 18, 2024 https://www.hoover.org/research/five-futures-russia-and-how-america-can-prepare-whatever-comes-next https://www.hoover.org/publications/hoover-daily-report/thursday-april-18-2024 April 18, 2024 April 18, 2024 https://www.hoover.org/publications/hoover-daily-report/thursday-april-18-2024 https://www.hoover.org/news/hoover-military-experts-chart-history-proxy-wars-ancient-greece-ukraine-and-gaza Hoover fellows and scholars affiliated with the institution’s Military History in Contemporary Conflict Working Group explored the history and use of proxy wars, and what they mean for modern great-power competition, at a conference on March 22, 2024. April 18, 2024 April 18, 2024 https://www.hoover.org/news/hoover-military-experts-chart-history-proxy-wars-ancient-greece-ukraine-and-gaza