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James Ceaser is the Harry F. Byrd Professor of Politics at the University of Virginia, director of the Program for Constitutionalism and Democracy, and was a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. He is the author of several books on American politics and American political thought, including...
Race and Politics
The Roots of Obama Worship
Barack Obama has now been center stage for two years—one as a presidential candidate (and president elect) and one as president. . . .
The Professor, The Cop And The President
On July 23, Henry Louis Gates—regarded at Harvard as America’s most eminent African-American academic—was cuffed and locked up for disorderly conduct by a Cambridge policeman named James Crowley.
Hillary Clinton, Anti-Feminist
Feminism originated as a struggle for equal rights. It started with voting rights, then expanded to include the dismantling of laws and customs that assumed women were incapable of running their own lives, and so had to be subjected to male overseers.
Ethnic Constructs Are Pointless In Our Multiracial Society
Not long ago, the New York Times uncovered the artifact that Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush had once listed himself as "Hispanic" on a Florida voter registration form.
Keystone Kops Government
What has gone wrong with the U.S. government in the past month? Just about everything, from the fundamental to the ridiculous.
The Contraception Hawks
GoodFellows: One Nation Under A Groove
In the final episode of the series for 2020, Hoover senior fellows Niall Ferguson, H. R. McMaster, and John Cochrane reflect on lessons learned from the pandemic, Donald Trump’s future, the ruinous state of the Golden State, how society will differ in 2021, plus what gets them through their daily routines—a mixtape of UK punk, Philly-brand funk, and the soothing sounds of “Sweet Baby James” Taylor.
Planned Parenthood's Hostages
Black History Month Profile: George P. Shultz and School Desegregation in America’s South
In this profile for Black History Month, the Hoover Institution looks back on how the late distinguished fellow George P. Shultz led efforts to dismantle the discriminatory and dual school system of the nation’s South fifty years ago.
The Ubiquity Of Terrorism
Last December, Donald Trump roiled the presidential race by calling for a “a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on.”
From Emmitt Till to Skip Gates
If the Henry Louis Gates imbroglio makes anything clear it is that, in 2009, the mere implication of racial profiling in the arrest of a black professor...
“Why Wouldn’t People Like ’Em?”
Explaining 1968
Was it a revolution? No. More like a baby-boomer coming-out party— with a rough morning after. By Niall Ferguson.
Purple Voters in the Golden State
California’s Republican Party has drifted off the centrist track. But its voters haven’t. By Morris P. Fiorina and Samuel J. Abrams.
Follow the Saudi Money
Untangling a complex courtroom tale: did Saudi funding incubate Islamist terror? By Chris Mondics.
Fighting Words
Craig S. Lerner on A Time to Fight: Reclaiming a Fair and Just America by Jim Webb
Douglas Murray And His Continuing Fight Against The "Madness Of Crowds”
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A little over 18 months ago, we interviewed author and columnist Douglas Murray about his then new book The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity. That show was one of our most-watched interviews of 2019, so we thought it was time to sit down with Douglas again and get an update on where things stand with regard to, as Douglas describes in his book, “the interpretation of the world through the lens of ‘social justice,’ ‘identity group politics’ and ‘intersectionalism’ . . . the most audacious and comprehensive effort since the end of the Cold War at creating a new ideology.”