Episodes
Friday Aug 31, 2018
George Shultz – Learning From Experience
Friday Aug 31, 2018
Friday Aug 31, 2018
George P. Shultz is one of only two individuals in U.S. history to have held four federal cabinet posts and has answered his nation’s call for over 75 years, from serving with the Marines in World War II to working with Ronald Reagan to bring a peaceful end to the Cold War. George P. Shultz, former Secretary of State and the Hoover Institution’s Thomas W. and Susan B. Ford Distinguished Fellow, joins Hoover’s Summer Policy Boot Camp for a conversation about his lifelong passion for public service and his current policy pursuits.
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Wednesday Aug 29, 2018
Covering John McCain with Jeff Barker
Wednesday Aug 29, 2018
Wednesday Aug 29, 2018
What was it like to firsthand observe John McCain transform from a first-term U.S. Senator into a national political icon? Jeff Barker, a Baltimore Sun reporter who covered McCain from 1991-2000 while writing for the D.C. bureau of the Arizona Republic, talks about what he learned about the late senator – his combativeness, his humility, his personality – in the years leading up to the “Straight Talk Express.”
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Monday Aug 27, 2018
The Kavanaugh Hearings with Michael McConnell
Monday Aug 27, 2018
Monday Aug 27, 2018
Awaiting Congress on the day after Labor Day: the Senate confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. Michael McConnell, a Hoover Institution senior fellow, the Richard and Frances Mallery Professor and Director of the Constitutional Law Center at Stanford Law School, and a former a Circuit Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, takes us through the confirmation process and Kavanaugh’s immediate impact on the High Court.
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Thursday Aug 09, 2018
The Hoovers— A Family Tradition of Leadership and Public Service
Thursday Aug 09, 2018
Thursday Aug 09, 2018
August 10 marks the 144th birthday of America’s 31st president. How should the nation remember Herbert Hoover, and what might he think in the age of Trump? Margaret Hoover, host of PBS’ reprised Firing Line and a Hoover Institution overseer, discusses her family’s legacy of public service and her great-grandfather’s journey from a two-room cottage in Iowa to the presidency and beyond.
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Monday Aug 06, 2018
What Survey Data Indicates About the Parties’ Chances this Fall
Monday Aug 06, 2018
Monday Aug 06, 2018
With the election less than one hundred days away, which narrative to believe—an approaching Democratic blue wave or a district-by-district slog? Hoover senior fellows and Stanford political scientists David Brady and Douglas Rivers, conductors of a tracking poll on political trends, discuss what survey data indicates about the parties’ chances this fall.
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Tuesday Jul 31, 2018
Taxes, GDP Growth, and the Trump Economy
Tuesday Jul 31, 2018
Tuesday Jul 31, 2018
A second-quarter GDP that surpassed 4% was cause for a victory lap in the Trump White House last week. Is the exuberance justified? Is the US economy looking at sustained growth or a third-quarter surprise? John Cochrane, the Jack and Rose-Marie Anderson Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, weighs the good and the bad of “Trumponomics.”
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