There was a lot of pre-hearing hype about the Democrats’ supposedly stellar academic experts, sort of analogous to the giddiness about the “dream team,” “all-stars,” and “hunter-killer” legal eagles that Robert Mueller supposedly had assembled to pick apart the Trump carrion — and they likewise proved a complete dud.

Why do Europeans resent America, even as they continue to copy it? Never mind Donald Trump. The United States is the steamroller of modernity that invents stuff, ideas, and images the world cannot resist.

Hoover Institution fellow Victor Davis Hanson discusses his National Review article "Trump’s Foreign Policy: The Popping Point of Maximum Pressure."

(Part 2) Hoover Institution fellow Richard Epstein discusses his Defining Ideas article "Our Precarious Pipeline Infrastructure."

Hoover Institution fellow Michael Petrilli discusses the long-term impact of early college high school programs.

What a way to climb down. And how very German. Having promised revolution one week, Germany’s Social Democrats called it off the next, hoping that nobody would take much notice. As so often in contemporary German politics, rupture was averted for the sake of stability, open conflict exchanged for suppressed frustration, movement foregone for stasis.