David Davenport, counselor to the director and a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, notes that, the point of the establishment clause was to prevent the government from establishing state religions not to remove God from the public square entirely.

In this podcast Russell Roberts, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and EconTalk host, discusses, with Gary Taubes, author of Good Calories, Bad Calories, what we know about the relationship between diet and disease. Taubes argues that, for decades, doctors, the medical establishment, and government agencies encouraged Americans to reduce fat in their diet and increase carbohydrates to reduce heart disease. Taubes argues that the evidence for the connection between fat in the diet and heart disease was weak but that the consensus in favor of low-fat diets remained strong.

Morris Fiorina, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Wendt Family Professor of Political Science at Stanford University, discusses the cycle of overreach and backlash in our politics.

In this podcast Russell Roberts, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and EconTalk host, discusses, with Steven Kaplan of the University of Chicago, the richest Americans and income inequality. Drawing on his work with Joshua Rauh, Kaplan talks about the composition of the richest 1 percent and one-tenth of 1 percent—what proportions come from the financial sector, CEOs from nonfinancial corporations, athletes, lawyers, and so on.