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Confronting America’s Crisis In Trust
Hoover Institution fellow Brandice Canes-Wrone discusses the mission of the Center for Revitalizing American Institutions and why it is important.

Stanford Emerging Technology Review Launches with Public Event Featuring Leading University Officials and Tech Experts
The Stanford Emerging Technology Review, an ambitious university-wide initiative dedicated to fostering a greater understanding among policymakers, industry leaders, and the attentive public about the breakthroughs and policy implications of frontier technologies shaping societies and economies, launched with a public event on the Stanford campus.
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Defense Budgeting for a Safer World: The Experts Speak
Renowned experts on national security and the defense budget share ideas, perspectives, and solutions for budget reform to ensure its adequacy and flexibility for the current complex geopolitical environment.

Effect of Organizations on MD Prescribing: Case of Opioids
An examination of the effect of three aspects of MD organizational form on opioid prescribing: the number of MDs in the physician’s group; the physician’s integration with or employment by a hospital or hospital system; and the average age of the other physicians in the physician’s group.
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HOOVER FELLOWS ON HAMAS’S TERRORIST ATTACK AGAINST ISRAEL

Peter Berkowitz
Antisemitism, Multiculturalism, and Barbarism
The enormity of Hamas’ 10/7 mass atrocities breaks the heart and scorches the mind. Or so a person of ordinary human decency would think.


Abraham D. Sofaer
Don’t let Hamas derail Saudi-Israeli normalization
The chaos set off by Hamas’s brutal attack on Israel poses difficult challenges for the future of the Middle East.


Andrew Roberts
Israel’s Challenge in Responding to a Brutal Surprise Attack
Hamas staged a shockingly successful operation against the Jewish state, but history shows that wars are seldom won by such tactics.


Russell A. Berman
Israel’s War With Hamas Will Ripple Across the Region and the West
The Hamas attack of Oct. 7 has shattered the self-confidence of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).


Amy Zegart
Israel’s Intelligence Disaster
How the Security Establishment Could Have Underestimated the Hamas Threat


Cole Bunzel
Gaza and Global Jihad
Why the Hamas-Israel War Is Unlikely to Revive ISIS and al Qaeda.


Victor Davis Hanson
Does Iran Realize Its Own Growing Danger?
Iranians have little clue they are one stupid missile volley, or one reckless intervention away from a devastating Western response

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Consequences Matter: Thomas Sowell On “Social Justice Fallacies”
Thomas Sowell, age 93, is the Rose and Milton Friedman Senior Fellow on Public Policy at the Hoover Institution. With his usual fierceness and feistiness intact, Dr. Sowell returns to Uncommon…
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The World According To China With Elizabeth Economy
Dr. Economy is the author of half a dozen books, including her most recent volume, The World According to China. She has just returned to Hoover after a two-year leave of absence in Washington, where she served as senior advisor for China to Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo.

Michael Boskin: Defense Budgeting For A Safer World
Budgeting for two “hot” wars plus “Cold War 2.0" with China.

War, Tribe, And Freedom: A Conversation With Sebastian Junger
In this episode of Battlegrounds, H.R. McMaster and Sebastian Junger discuss the necessity of unity, the importance of the tribe, and the future of American democracy, Wednesday, November 8, 2023.

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