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Analysis and Commentary
Analysis and Commentary

The Return Of Traditional Values

by Victor Davis Hansonvia Defining Ideas
Thursday, April 9, 2015

What our love of Downton Abbey and American Sniper says about our culture and about us.

Analysis and Commentary

More On The Legal Basis For The Administration’s Disregard Of Congressional Restrictions On Detainee Transfers In The Bergdahl Context, And On The Implications For Closing GTMO

by Jack Goldsmithvia Lawfare
Thursday, April 9, 2015

Last summer I wrote of the administration’s constitutional arguments for disregarding congressional transfer restrictions in swapping the Taliban 5 for Bowe Bergdahl

Analysis and Commentary

Krugman's Insightful Analysis Of Libertarians

by David R. Hendersonvia EconLog
Thursday, April 9, 2015

I was too busy on April 1 to post an April Fool's Day entry. This isn't one. But my use of the word "insightful" in the title is meant to be ironic.

Analysis and Commentary

Kevin Faulconer Could Be The State GOP’s Best Hope For 2018

by Bill Whalenvia Sacramento Bee
Thursday, April 9, 2015

Largely overlooked amidst last week’s news of a nuclear framework with Iran and California’s first-ever mandatory water restrictions was word of Republicans’ share of this state’s registered voters falling below 28 percent.

Analysis and Commentary

A Foreign Policy Primer For Obama––And Rand Paul

by Bruce Thorntonvia Front Page Magazine Online
Friday, April 10, 2015

The president who thinks there’s such a thing as an “Austrian” language is advising Rand Paul to “bone up on foreign policy.”

Analysis and Commentary

Laurence Tribe: A ‘Traitor’ To The Environmental Agenda

by James Huffmanvia Daily Caller (DC)
Friday, April 10, 2015

Harvard Professor Laurence Tribe has been getting a lot of press in advance of his representation of Peabody Energy in its dispute with the Obama Administration over the constitutionality of the Environmental Protection Agency’s carbon dioxide emission regulations.

Analysis and Commentary

Conference On The Handbook Of Macroeconomics Vol. 2

Thursday, April 9, 2015 to Saturday, April 11, 2015
Stauffer Auditorium, Hoover Institution

This conference and a companion conference were held at the Becker Friedman Institute at the University of Chicago on April 23rd to the 25th and brought together a wide range of distinguished macro economists to present their ideas and proposed contributions to the new Handbook of Macroeconomics, which will be edited by John B. Taylor and Harald Uhlig.

Event
Interviews
Interviews

Terry Anderson On The Mike Slater Show

interview with Terry Andersonvia Mike Slater Show
Friday, April 10, 2015

Hoover fellow Terry Anderson discusses the drought in California, water, and how the free market is the best way to resolve environmental problems.

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Interviews

Stephen Kotkin On Book Nook (1:18)

interview with Stephen Kotkinvia Book Nook (WYSO)
Thursday, April 9, 2015

Hoover fellow Stephen Kotkin discusses his recent book on Stalin and the regime that Stalin built.

Philip Bobbitt teaches at the University of Texas and at Columbia University
Interviews

Philip Bobbitt On The John Batchelor Show

interview with Philip Bobbittvia John Batchelor Show
Wednesday, April 8, 2015

Philip Bobbitt, a member of Hoover's National Security & Law Task Force, discusses his latest book The Garments of Court and Palace: Machiavelli and the World That He Made.

In the News
Henry Kissinger
In the News

Johns Hopkins Names Global Affairs Center After Henry Kissinger

featuring Henry A. Kissingervia Bloomberg
Thursday, April 9, 2015

Johns Hopkins University is creating a new international policy institute named for former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.

In the News

TEDxStanford Returns For 2015 With Dynamic Speakers And A New Twist

with Alice L. Millervia Stanford Report
Thursday, April 9, 2015

TEDxStanford, the annual smorgasbord of fascinating Stanford speakers and performers, returns this year with a slightly different approach. The theme is "Turning Point" – the audience will hear stories of research, events and personal lives that have reached a critical moment.

In the News

A Divided China

quoting Alice L. Millervia Huffington Post
Thursday, April 9, 2015

Understanding the dynamics of Chinese politics has always been part science, part art, and part mystery.

Polish civilians dig antitank trenches in Warsaw, September 1939
In the News

Online Polish Collections From The Hoover Institution Archives

mentioning Hoover Institutionvia Research Teacher
Thursday, April 9, 2015

In the early 1990s, roughly 1.5 million documents on microfilm were transferred from the Hoover Institution to the Polish National Archives. These documents, the records of the Polish government-in-exile, had originally been entrusted to the Hoover Institution following World War II and the subjugation of Poland by the Soviet Union.

Scott Walker
In the News

Scott Walker Bests Obama On Iran

mentioning George P. Shultz, Henry A. Kissingervia The Washington Post
Thursday, April 9, 2015

The president handed Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker a gift by telling him to “bone up” on foreign policy before criticizing the Iran deal.