The Billion Dollar Spy tells the story of Adolf Tolkachev, a Russian radar engineer who volunteered to spy for the CIA Moscow station in the late 1970s and provided an immense trove of material on Soviet aviation and air defenses until his capture in 1985. In telling Tolkachev’s story, Hoffman has benefited both from a large volume of declassified operational papers and from extensive cooperation from former CIA officers who worked on the case.

Hoover Institution fellow Victor Davis Hanson discusses President Obama’s “fundamental shift” in Middle East policy as well as Hillary Clinton’s emboldening of Muslim extremists following the Benghazi consulate attack.

Hoover Institution fellow Gary Roughead discusses whether China and the US can avoid falling into Thucydides’ trap, a popular empirical observation from history that a rising power and a reigning power inevitably end up in bitter conflict.

Reagan later recalled in his memoir, "Three years had taught me something surprising about the Russians: Many people at the top of the Soviet hierarchy were genuinely afraid of America and Americans. Perhaps this shouldn't have surprised me, but it did. In fact, I had difficulty accepting my own conclusion at first."