Last September, energetic Trump administration diplomacy brought Bahrain’s foreign minister, the United Arab Emirates’ foreign minister, and Israel’s prime minister to the White House to sign and to celebrate the Abraham Accords. The agreements offer unprecedented opportunities for the parties to the accords, for the broader region, and for the international order. Over the last seven months, the focus has been on cooperation in national security and commerce. That’s understandable.
with Jack Goldsmithvia U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs
Tuesday, March 23, 2021
Hoover Institution senior fellow Jack Goldsmith will testifies before the United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs on “Reclaiming Congressional War Powers."
In this interview, recorded on February 10, 2021, Edward Nelson, an economist for the US Federal Reserve Board, discusses his new two-volume work, Milton Friedman and Economic Debate in the United States, 1932–1972.
The Hoover Institution’s Herbert and Jane Dwight Working Group on the Middle East and the Islamic World acknowledged the tenth anniversary of the Syrian civil war this week with a conversation about the origins of the conflict and the future of what has become a failed state.
As a general rule, the next time an official, a politician, or an expert lectures us on the “science,” make sure that he is not projecting his own unscientific biases onto others.
Key climate goals of the administration, such as reducing greenhouse gas emissions for the energy and transportation sectors, may be held hostage by China. This is because a shift away from fossil fuels depends on lithium ion batteries. Since China dominates that industry, the administration will need its strategy to mitigate the leverage.
The harsh sentence handed down to former French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who was found guilty of influence peddling, confirms anew an ancient truth of politics. Even in the world's most firmly entrenched democracies, corruption remains a curse.
Whether it's a pandemic or a Texas-sized ice storm that leaves millions of people without power, we'd like to avoid a repetition. Megan McArdle of the Washington Post talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the challenge of learning the right lessons from the current crisis in order to prevent the next one. McArdle argues that we frequently learn the wrong lessons from the past in trying to prevent the harm from the catastrophes that might be waiting in our future.
Former President Donald Trump formally announced Operation Warp Speed (OWS) on May 15, 2020. OWS was constituted as a projected $18 billion business-government-military partnership, charged to "produce and deliver 300 million doses of safe and effective vaccines with the initial doses available by January 2021, as part of a broader strategy to accelerate the development, manufacturing, and distribution of COVID-19 vaccines, therapeutics, and diagnostics.”
The director of the Sinquefield Center for Applied Economic Research at Saint Louis University, Michael Podgursky, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss the resignation of the members of the Oakley Union Elementary School District Board, who were caught on a live Zoom meeting discussing parents, including a comment that, “it’s very unfortunate that they want to pick on us because they want their babysitters back.”
In Jeff Hummel’s Monetary Theory and Policy class recently, he assigned an interesting computational problem that shed light on the main factors driving the drop in the U.S. money supply between 1929 and 1933. He used a problem from Greg Mankiw’s Intermediate Macro text. The problem didn’t give magnitudes but I assume everything was in billions of dollars.
interview with Ayaan Hirsi Alivia The Philanthropy Roundtable
Tuesday, March 2, 2021
Hoover Institution fellow Ayaan Hirsi Ali breaks down the lessons learned about politics and culture from the death of Theo van Gogh and the importance of listening to different views.
Hoover Institution fellow John Yoo joins a panel to consider to what extent such presidential unilateral action is consistent with the original meaning of the constitution and whether the costs of such action outweigh its benefits. The panel also considers whether there are ways to reform the War Powers Act to make it a more effective instrument for requiring legislative deliberation before the United States commits to major military action abroad.
Hoover Institution fellow Bjorn Lomborg discusses the exaggeration of climate risk, the coming backlash against eco-austerity, and why technology is the best solution.
Hoover Institution fellow John Yoo discusses former President Trump, executive power, the US Constitution, the differences between the Republicans and Democrats, and much more.
Condoleezza Rice was born in Birmingham, Alabama. She was secretary of state during George W. Bush's presidency and the first and only black woman to have served in that position.
US and Chinese diplomats clashed Thursday in their first face-to-face talks since President Joe Biden took office, with the world’s top two powers each digging in on a laundry list of issues on which they diverge broadly as the meeting opened in Alaska.
