Blend “COVID” and “idiocy” and the result is “covidiocy”—the irrational and hypocritical underside of this pandemic. Hoover senior fellows Niall Ferguson, H. R. McMaster, and John Cochrane discuss what “covidiocy” says about personal responsibility and bureaucratic dictates. They also share their thoughts on the assassination of Iran’s top nuclear scientist and the significance of Joe Biden’s top economic and national security appointments.
After seven months, California’s one-hundred-plus-member economic recovery task force has finished its recovery recommendation report. What could have been a game-changing opportunity to reduce the state’s high cost of living, increase efficiency in bureaucracies, and reform tax and regulatory policies never got off the ground.
The Hoover Institution and the U.S. Institute of Peace are hosting Hinge of History: George P. Shultz on Governance in an Emerging New World on December 2, 2020 from 11:00-12:30 PM PST.
A little over 18 months ago, we interviewed author and columnist Douglas Murray about his then new book The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity. That show was one of our most-watched interviews of 2019, so we thought it was time to sit down with Douglas again and get an update on where things stand with regard to, as Douglas describes in his book, “the interpretation of the world through the lens of ‘social justice,’ ‘identity group politics’ and ‘intersectionalism’ . . . the most audacious and comprehensive effort since the end of the Cold War at creating a new ideology.”
For school choice to become more equitable, all parents must be allowed access to a wider selection of schools: a portfolio of options within school districts, an expanded number of charter schools, and school vouchers and tax-credit scholarships that can be used at private schools.
Hoover Institution fellow Victor Davis Hanson analyzes Donald Trump’s political future, the rural/urban divide and the Republic’s dependence on the self-reliant, the likelihood of a Biden administration building on Trump’s strategic foreign-policy gains, Scott Atlas and the COVID jihadists, and an upcoming VDH tour of Israel.
Hoover Institution fellows Tim Kane and Ayaan Hirsi Ali discuss what drew her to the USA, and why it represents a freedom that is both hoped for and feared around the globe.
Historian and senior fellow with the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, Niall Ferguson says bitcoin is winning the Covid-19 monetary revolution. Hailing the virtual currency as a great place for the rich to store their wealth, Ferguson also notes that the bitcoin’s resilience has forced critics as well as institutional investors to alter their views about the leading crypto.
In a recent episode of Professor Scott Galloway's podcast, he talked with one of my favourite writers: the eminent historian and Hoover Institution senior fellow Niall Ferguson. The subject of the conversation was the relationship between the United States and China.
