As I reported for my first day of duty in the West Wing of the White House on Feb. 21, 2017, I believed that America’s strategic competence had diminished due to strategic narcissism: the tendency to define problems as one might like them to be and indulge in the conceit that others have no authorship over the future and no aspirations beyond their response to U.S. decisions and actions.
What are China’s ambitions toward Taiwan? And if they are ominous, what should the US response to Chinese aggression be? To answer these questions, we’re joined by two experts: former national security advisor (and current Hoover Institution senior fellow) H. R. McMaster and former US deputy national security advisor (and current Hoover distinguished visiting fellow) Matthew Pottinger. They also discuss the Biden administration’s recent diplomatic encounters with China, and which countries might be allies in a conflict with China—and which ones would not be.
with Matt Pottingervia US-China Economics & Security Review Commission
Thursday, April 15, 2021
Hoover Institution fellow Matt Pottinger testifies before the US-China Economics & Security Review Commission on "An Assessment of the CCP’s Economic Ambitions, Plans, and Metrics of Success."
The European Union has been troubled since its formal birth in 1993. Each crisis since then, from the ethnic bloodletting in the Balkans in the Nineties, to the Great Recession in 2008-9, to the current bungling of Covid vaccine distribution–all have laid bare the flawed assumptions obvious in its foundational ideas.
David Splinter, Economist at the Joint Committee on Taxation at the U.S. Congress, discussed "Income Inequality in the United States: Using Tax Data to Measure Long-term Trends," a paper with Gerald Auten. John Cochrane, the Rose-Marie and Jack Anderson Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, was the moderator.
Russia is building up its forces on the Ukrainian border and in Crimea. At the latest count, the build-up is approaching 100,000, far more than necessary for any “military exercise.” It is also adding to its military potential in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine that the Kremlin effectively controls through proxies in parts of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts.
If I had to name the most important institution in American life, and the one with the most potential for changing the course of our country, it would be the humble elementary school. Especially the 20,000 or so high-poverty elementary schools in the nation’s cities and inner-ring suburbs, educating millions of kids growing up in poor or working-class families.
Hoover Institution fellow Victor Davis Hanson examines how ’The Great Awokening’ has morphed from a boutique obsession into a society-wide attack on meritocracy … and considers whether that is setting the state for a brutal backlash.
Hoover Institution fellow Victor Davis Hanson discusses the rationale behind the elites’ wokeness, the cannibalism of revolutions, how race trumps all, the mainstream media’s preference for the noble lie, and the value of the American iconoclast.
