Confronting China’s aggression, and maintaining stability and promoting economic prosperity in the Indo-Pacific depends on like-minded democratic nations upholding a rules-based order in the region, argued Shinzō Abe, the longest-serving prime minister in Japan’s history, in the latest episode of Hoover’s Battlegrounds series, hosted by Fouad and Michelle Ajami Senior Fellow H. R. McMaster.
The Hoover Institution hosted its annual summer board of overseers meeting on Tuesday, July 13 and Wednesday, July 14. This is the second year the board meeting has been held virtually due to COVID-19 safety protocols still in place on the Stanford University campus. In addition to committee meetings, the Hoover Institution invited board members to attend sessions in which scholars, government officials, and media professionals provided in-depth analysis of timely national policy issues.
This is a story of the sea. It comes from the place where sea stories began, the Mediterranean realm of Homer’s Odyssey and of the naval battles of Salamis and Actium. It’s a story of pluck and ingenuity but also of the dramatic changes that technology is bringing to war, from the skies above to the seas below.
Hoover Institution fellow Niall Ferguson notes that when a government fails on disaster response, we often point the finger at the wrong person: the president — instead of the mid-level bureaucrats who are actually responsible for most decisions.
Speech suppression is a habit that the Biden administration and its liberal supporters can’t seem to break. Many staffers may have picked up the habit in their student years: Colleges and universities have been routinely censoring “politically incorrect” speech for the last 30 years. As Thomas Sowell notes, “There are no institutions in America where free speech is more severely restricted than in our politically correct colleges and universities, dominated by liberals.”
American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten insists that teachers in her union will and must “teach the good and the bad” about American history — a talking point that has echoed even in the most-local of government meetings as the fight over critical race theory (CRT) in the schools has escalated. In media coverage of the issue, however, a notable question is rarely asked: Are schools actually teaching the good?
