Hoover Institution fellow Raghuram Rajan discusses the recent wave of coronavirus infections in India, what he thinks went wrong and what India needs to do to recover from the virus.
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.
Hoover Institution fellow Timothy Garton Ash discusses stopping autocratic tendencies in Hungary and the EU, as well as reversing the backsliding on the rule of law.
Niall Ferguson is the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and the author of Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe, his new book on the decisions made by governments and public health officials around the world during the COVID pandemic. In this wide-ranging discussion, Ferguson describes what governments and leaders got right and got wrong—very wrong—over the 15 months since the coronavirus spread from China.
interview with Condoleezza Ricevia George W. Bush Presidential Center
Monday, April 26, 2021
Hoover Institution fellow Condoleezza Rice shares her perspective about the current state of the southern border and the root causes of the migrant increase.
interview with Niall Fergusonvia Sean Carroll's Mindscape Podcast
Monday, May 3, 2021
Hoover Institution fellow Niall Ferguson talks about his book, Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe and the global culture as a complex system, and what it means for our ability to respond to crisis.
