The President of France, Emmanuel Macron, delivered this speech on September 4, 2020. I discussed it in a TelosScope post here, putting it in dialogue with President Trump’s Mount Rushmore speech of July 4. There has been interest on the part of some readers in a full translation of Macron’s text, so it is offered below.
The news of a vaccine seems to be sparking an its-all-over sigh of relief. Not so fast. Interesting and challenging corona virus policy remains on the front burner.
Nov 11, Eric Leeper presented "Recovery of 1933" with Margaret Jacobson and Bruce Preston, at the Hoover "Road Ahead for Central Banks" series, and it was my pleasure to discuss it. This is a really important and insightful paper.
Vladimir Putin is mortal. Russia, sooner or later, will have to navigate the transition from his 20-plus years of rule to someone else. It now appears that “sometime” could come as early as January 2021, if ill-health rumors denied by the Kremlin should prove to be true.
Chinese leader Xi Jinping is sending a message to Washington: Regardless of who is in the Oval Office, their authoritarian crackdown on Hong Kong will continue.
Hoover Institution fellow Victor Davis Hanson discusses 2020 as the year of disinformation; how Election Day has become an abstraction (and how that threatens the Republic); the history of contested national elections; Andrew Cuomo, vaccine truther; Pfizer’s partisan game-playing; America’s third-world vote-counting; how some conservative elites spin the elections; the Mayflower Compact at 400; and a reflection on Veterans Day.
interview with Niall Fergusonvia The Prof G Show with Scott Galloway
Thursday, November 5, 2020
Hoover Institution fellow Niall Ferguson talks about the state of play around the tech war between the U.S. and China. Ferguson talks about each of the country’s strengths and weaknesses, and why he thinks we’re moving toward Cold War II.
Hoover Institution fellow Victor Davis Hanson discusses the ongoing election challenges around the country, media bias, standing together for the Georgia Senate races.
If there’s one former Democratic presidential candidate that’s doing the most to help drive out the vote for Georgia’s key Senate runoff elections it has to be Andrew Yang. When it became clear Republican or Democratic control of the Senate is going to hinge on the two runoff races to be held January 5, Yang announced he would be moving to Georgia to help give his party the best chance to sweep the critical seats.
President-elect Joe Biden made a campaign proposal to erase $10,000 for roughly 37 million Americans who owe federally-backed student loan debt, and experts are divided on whether the incoming president will be able to make good on that promise.
For the last few years, headlines about rising tensions over Taiwan have been a steady drumbeat, making it hard to parse which developments are most important. Here’s a reality check on the island’s defense.
Stanford University’s Hoover Institution Senior Fellow Victor Davis Hanson describes counter-productive practices of political bodies as their loss of “collective common sense.” Despite presumed high common sense levels among political leaders individually, decisions they make collectively can be totally devoid of this key quality.
