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Beware Of Five Tricks In Policy Debates
Move past the short cuts and the social media noise, and fuller pictures emerge.
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As it turns out, COVID-19 isn’t the first catastrophic event to plague mankind. Or so Niall Ferguson, the Hoover Institution’s Milbank Family Senior Fellow, reminds us in his new book Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe, a historical look at past disasters and their aftermaths. The author joins Hoover senior fellows H. R. McMaster and John Cochrane to discuss why it is that we still struggle with disaster response and how to better prepare for future calamities.
Recorded May 4, 2021
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Flock Cameras And The Fourth Amendment With Orin Kerr
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