“Is the world slouching toward a grave systemic crisis?” asked historian Philip Zelikow at the annual gathering of the Aspen Strategy Group earlier this month. Now that’s what I call a question! Zelikow, who teaches at the University of Virginia, is more than just a history professor. He has also served Republican as well Democratic presidents in the White House, State Department, and Pentagon. His pessimism is that of a practitioner as well as a scholar.
On August 21, 2017, the Hoover Institution hosted Congressman Ro Khanna, representing California’s seventeenth congressional district, to participate in a Hoover Leadership Forum.
Benedict Evans of Andreessen Horowitz talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about two important trends for the future of personal travel--the increasing number of electric cars and a world of autonomous vehicles. Evans talks about how these two trends are likely to continue and the implications for the economy, urban design, and how we live.
A simple question: if you’re willing to shell out a nickel shy out $100 to watch this weekend’s bout between Floyd Mayweather and UFC Champion Conor McGregor, will you spend another $30 to read Hillary Clinton’s round-by-round analysis of her presidential campaign’s failure?
As I noted in my post yesterday, the Chinese government has declined to clarify how and whether it believes the international law governing the use of applies to cyber warfare. Its refusal to do so has drawn sharp criticism from the U.S. and other cyber powers. But while the Chinese government has not set forth a clear statement on these issues, Chinese scholars and media commentators have outlined important principles that may become part of official government policy.
"As a team, trying to win and not have a distraction on the team, I just take that as a player -- there's certain players that could be on the team with big distractions, and there's other players that it's not good enough or not worth it. I think his situation is not good enough to have him [Colin Kaepernick] on the team with all the attention that comes along with it. I'm sure if a guy like [Tom] Brady or a guy like whoever is your favorite player -- Odell Beckham or a guy like that -- you'll deal with that attention and play him," said the Buffalo Bill.
It’s nearly Labor Day weekend and for millions of Americans that means heading to the coasts to enjoy a vacation of sun and surf at the beach. But imagine Labor Day in a few decades’ time with no beach to enjoy and coastal communities isolated by flooded roads.
On Facebook this morning, economics Ph.D. student Garrett Malcolm Petersen, aka The Economics Detective, asked the following: Has anyone else noticed the contradiction between Rawls' veil of ignorance argument against inequality and the concept of male privilege?
Hoover Institution fellows Scott Atlas and Josh Rauh discuss the Hoover Institution's Summer Policy Boot Camp, which teaches students how to think critically about public policy formulation and its results.
interview with Alice Hillvia KPCC 89.3 (Southern California)
Monday, August 28, 2017
Hoover Institution fellow Alice Hill discusses President Trump’s executive order to streamline permitting regulations, create manufacturing jobs, and whether it make economic sense in the long-run, as well as the consequences of rolling back Obama’s flood risk management standard.
This first video is from an interview on Thomas Sowell’s book, “Economic Facts & Fallacies,” on Wall Street Journal Live, with Peter Robinson of the Hoover Institution.
Condoleezza Rice, secretary of state under President George W. Bush from 2005 to 2009, is now a professor of business and political science at Stanford University and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. She is the author of “Extraordinary, Ordinary People: A Memoir of Family” and “No Higher Honor: A Memoir of My Years in Washington.” Her most recent book is “Democracy: Stories from the Long Road to Freedom.” She will be in conversation with National Book Festival co-chairman David M. Rubenstein.
Just about everyone is incensed over the Southern Poverty Law Center's recent list of who they deem to be "hate groups" in the United States. We've covered that misleading list extensively, helping to drag reputable groups like Alliance Defending Freedom and the Family Research Council out of the mud, not to mention churches who only made the list because they oppose gay marriage.
Should they stay or should they go? Tearing down statues is a perverse sort of idolatry, imbuing bronze and stone with metaphysical power. But as former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said after the violence in Charlottesville, “I want us to have to look at those names and recognize what they did and to be able to tell our kids what they did, and for them to have a sense of their own history.”
