In the wake of the opening of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union, it appeared that liberal democracy was on an inexorable victory march around the world. The Soviet satellite states threw off their Communist shackles, and the occupied Baltics regained their independence.
This essay compares Israel’s cyber defense architecture and recent reform with key concepts in current US strategy: Defend Forward and Persistent Engagement. It finds that the Israeli equivalent to Defend Forward is far less regulated than its US parallel, and that the Israeli version of Persistent Engagement at home allows domestic action and harnesses the private sector in ways that the US approach does not contemplate.
In a lengthy article in today’s Wall Street Journal titled “New Thinking on Covid Lockdowns: They’re Overly Blunt and Costly,” Wall Street Journal reporter Greg Ip does a good job of backing up the title of his article. He shows that the title is justified.
Hoover Institution fellow Victor Davis Hanson analyzes the second night of the Republican National Convention and singled out remarks by Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron for praise.
Hoover Institution fellow Kiron Skinner talks about the protests in Wisconsin, as well as Senator Tim Scott's message of hope at the Republican National Convention, and how racial tensions will impact the presidential race.
Hoover Institution fellow Russ Roberts talks about his view on marketplaces, religion, and the importance of doubt. Roberts also discusses behavioral economics, rationality, rough heuristics, and black box problems.
A conversation with Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the celebrated Somali-born writer and activist based in the United States, has convinced me that “cancel culture” is not just a fleeting academic perversion or a fad for silly Millennials, but the new ideology that threatens liberal democracies.
At least Nancy Pelosi, Adam Schiff, and their surrogates in the Mainstream Media got one point right regarding foreign interference in U.S. politics: that it is totally bogus to compare the records of Russia and China in election meddling and in other aspects of American public life, and their abilities to do so.
