Episodes
Monday Sep 12, 2022
“Cut From A Cloth That Has Long Been Discontinued”
Monday Sep 12, 2022
Monday Sep 12, 2022
Over the next few days, London will be filled to the brim with mourners paying their respects to the late Queen Elizabeth II; billions around the world will watch her state funeral. Historian and Hoover visiting fellow Andrew Roberts discusses the end of an era in Great Britain, how Charles III should proceed in her absence, and how historians might choose to examine the queen if given access to her diaries and personal papers.
Friday Sep 09, 2022
“Our Greatest Strategic Regret In Afghanistan Is Yet To Come”
Friday Sep 09, 2022
Friday Sep 09, 2022
On the eve of the 9/11 anniversary, another event that went largely unnoticed outside the military community: Aug. 30 and the one-year anniversary of the chaotic U.S. evacuation from Kabul. Joseph Felter, a Hoover Institution research fellow and former Army Special Forces officer once deployed to Afghanistan, discusses lessons learned from that day, current intelligence capabilities in Afghanistan, the future of U.S. relations with Pakistan and India, plus how the war on terror is presented to a new generation of officers at West Point.
Tuesday Sep 06, 2022
Saints, Sinners, and Salvageables: Denial Is a River In . . . American Elections
Tuesday Sep 06, 2022
Tuesday Sep 06, 2022
Why is the right to vote important to a democracy? What legal protections should there be? How do we counter electoral refuseniks who won’t accept outcomes? Hoover Institution visiting fellow Ben Ginsberg, a preeminent authority on election law, interviews Stanford University political scientist Bruce Cain and Stanford Law School professor Nathaniel Persily on the struggle to restore the public’s confidence in the accuracy of elections.
Wednesday Aug 31, 2022
The FBI vs. Trump: “Raising The Volume to Level Ten – Or Eleven”
Wednesday Aug 31, 2022
Wednesday Aug 31, 2022
As an FBI affidavit reveals details of what classified documents the FBI found in Donald Trump’s Palm Beach residence, the question is: will the Justice Department take the unprecedented step of prosecuting a former president? John Yoo, a Hoover Institution visiting fellow and UC-Berkeley law professor, weighs the legal options before Attorney General Merrick Garland, as well as how to restore the FBI’s tarnished image, plus the constitutionality of forgiving student-loan debt.
Tuesday Aug 30, 2022
Saints, Sinners And Salvageables: Ben Ginsberg On Voting Integrity
Tuesday Aug 30, 2022
Tuesday Aug 30, 2022
What can be done to avoid a repeat of 2020 and a re-questioning of the legitimacy and validity of American elections? Attorney Ben Ginsberg, a Hoover Institution visiting fellow and preeminent authority on election law, introduces Saints, Sinners and Salvageables – Restoring America’s Faith In Voting, a multi-part podcast in which the nation’s leading election officials discuss federal and state voting reforms and new ways to bring further transparency to the democratic process.
Thursday Aug 25, 2022
“Look For The Union Label”
Thursday Aug 25, 2022
Thursday Aug 25, 2022
An online retail giant chooses not to expand in California, and Newsom’s change of heart regarding safe injection sites generates further presidential buzz. Hoover senior fellow Lee Ohanian and distinguished policy fellow Bill Whalen, both contributors to Hoover’s “California on Your Mind” web channel, join Hoover senior writer Jonathan Movroydis to discuss the latest in the Golden State, including farmworkers’ voting rights, fast-food oversight, and the irony of a renewable-loving California relying on one nuclear plant for its electricity needs.
Friday Aug 19, 2022
Troubled Waters: Admiral Gary Roughead on the U.S.-China Naval Rivalry
Friday Aug 19, 2022
Friday Aug 19, 2022
Are Chinese and American forces on a collision course in the South China Sea? Admiral Roughead, the Hoover Institution’s Robert and Marion Oster Distinguished Military Fellow and the U.S. Navy’s 29th chief of naval operations, discusses China’s PLA Naval expansion, U.S. strategic concerns in the Western Pacific, plus the U.S. Navy’s construction, maintenance, and personnel needs.
Monday Aug 15, 2022
Warming Up To Climate Policy
Monday Aug 15, 2022
Monday Aug 15, 2022
Congress allocates $370 billion to address climate change while philanthropists offer billions more under the guise of environmental stewardship. Bjorn Lomborg, a Hoover Institution visiting fellow and environmental researcher, discusses ways to develop cheaper energy sources, along with a broader strategy addressing the quality-of-life needs of developed and developing lands.
Wednesday Aug 10, 2022
Where There’s Smoke…
Wednesday Aug 10, 2022
Wednesday Aug 10, 2022
As a result of California’s “wildfire season” now a year-long occurrence there is widespread difficulty in finding insurance, unsustainable pressure on the state’s insurance market, and a need to better anticipate and contain fire damage. Donnie Hasseltine and David Winnacker, members of Hoover’s inaugural class of veteran fellows, discuss their three-part plan to balance California’s competing housing and fire insurance demands.
Tuesday Aug 02, 2022
Tuesday Aug 02, 2022
Are we in a recession, what are the roots of the present inflationary spiral, what’s valid criticism of Federal Reserve policy and federal spending choices? John Cochrane, the Hoover Institution’s Rose-Marie and Jack Anderson senior fellow and proprietor of the Grumpy Economist blog, walks us these and other economic questions.