“Where are we now?” (Wall Street Journal). Hoover fellows George P. Shultz, the Thomas W. and Susan B. Ford Distinguished Fellow and chair of the Energy Policy Task Force; John B. Taylor, the George P. Shultz Senior Fellow in Economics and chair of the Working Group on Economic Policy; Michael J. Boskin, senior fellow and member of the Task Force on Energy Policy; John F. Cogan, the Leonard and Shirley Ely Senior Fellow and member of the Working Group on Economic Policy; and Allan H. Meltzer, distinguished visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution, collaborated on a Wall Street Journal article titled “The Magnitude of the Mess We're In.” The article addresses the state of our economy, discussing federal government annual spending, federal budget deficits, and fixes to the problems.

Robert Service, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and a fellow of St Antony’s College, Oxford, is a noted Russian historian and political commentator. In his recent book, Spies and Commissars, Service tells an unconventional and riveting story of the Russian Revolution, looking beyond official government documents to the worlds of business, journalism, and espionage to see how the West interacted with the new Bolshevik government. Service notes that Hoover’s huge food and humanitarian missions in 1919 “probably did save Europe from the Bolsheviks,” but, he asks, did Britain save the Bolshevik revolution at a time when it might have crumbled?