On January 7, 2010, Stewart Baker, former assistant secretary of Homeland Security, explained how exponential advances in technology improve the quality of life while at the same time provide terrorists unprecedented powers to wreak death and destruction.

The Hoover Institution’s Boyd and Jill Smith Task Force on Virtues of a Free Society dinner was held on Tuesday, January 5. Task force member Robert P. George delivered before-dinner remarks titled “Academic Reform: A How-to Guide.”