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How Veterans’ Service Abroad Creates Responsibility at Home | Hoover Institution
March 09, 2024 01:19 - 1 hour - 127 MBA Post-9/11 Veteran Town Hall Discussion with veterans Jason Galui, Colin Frances Jackson, and Felicia Pinckney and Veteran Fellowship Program Fellow John Moses led by Hoover Fellow Jacquelyn Schneider. Veterans’ experience abroad imparts a deep empathy for the world around them, with significant implications for the local communities to which they return. How does the post 9/11 veteran experience of combat or service abroad, and the profound relationships built between servicemembers and f...
How Can Post 9/11 Veterans Build Social Bonds In Their Communities | Hoover Institution
March 02, 2024 05:04 - 1 hour - 108 MBA Post-9/11 Veteran Town Hall Discussion with veterans Gil Barndollar and Robin Johnson, Veteran Fellowship Program Fellows Matthew Brown and Claudia Flores led by Hoover Fellow Jacquelyn Schneider. One of the greatest challenges for the All Volunteer Force is how to reintegrate a professional, volunteer military back into civilian society. For many previous generations, this re-integration was supported by veterans organizations, like the Veterans of Foreign Wars, which created a space fo...
How Veterans Continue Public Service In The Civilian Sector | Hoover Institution
February 23, 2024 01:09 - 1 hour - 63.7 MBA Post-9/11 Veteran Town Hall Discussion with local veterans Cathy Cohn, Mikhail Venikov, Justin Adney and Veteran Fellowship Program Fellow Michael Wendler led by Hoover Fellow Jacquelyn Schneider, and featuring a special welcome by the Hon. Jackie Speier and Susan Manheimer, the former San Mateo Chief of Police. The post 9/11 veteran is not defined by one campaign or conflict. That can be something that often divides this generation. However, the remarkable diversity of conflicts and cris...
Sovereign Funds: How the Communist Party of China Finances Its Global Ambitions | Hoover Institution
February 16, 2024 05:15 - 11 minutes - 16.4 MBOne of the keys to China’s global rise has been its strategy of deploying sovereign wealth on behalf of state power. Since President Xi Jinping took office in 2013, China has doubled down on financial statecraft, making shrewd investments with the sovereign funds it has built up by leveraging its foreign exchange reserves. Sovereign Funds tells the story of how the Communist Party of China (CPC) became a global financier of surpassing ambition. Dr. Liu offers a comprehensive and up-to-date ...
What Is The Role Of Future International Collaboration: Risks And Opportunities | Hoover Institution
February 01, 2024 03:42 - 1 hour - 117 MBThe Hoover Institution held a conversation on What is the Role of Future International Collaboration: Risks and Opportunities on January 22, 2024 from 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PT. Dr. Thomas Mason addressed aspects of research openness and the daily need to protect the information that is critically important to universities, National Labs, the federal government, and the private sector. The conversation was followed by a 30 minute Q&A. As a national security science laboratory Los Alamos Nati...
Administration and Trust in Elections | Hoover Institution, RAI (Session 6)
December 01, 2023 19:00 - 1 hour - 89.4 MBDecember 1, 2023 Hoover Institution | Stanford University The Center for Revitalizing American Institutions (RAI) hosts its “State of American Institutions” conference on Thursday, November 30, and Friday, December 1. In this panel, participants focus on the alarming lack of trust in US elections among citizens. With over one-third of the nation expressing doubt about the reliability of the electoral process, the participants maintain that there exists a critical need for strengthening con...
Universities and Civic Culture | Hoover Institution, RAI (Session 5)
December 01, 2023 18:00 - 1 hour - 86.9 MBDecember 1, 2023 Hoover Institution | Stanford University The Center for Revitalizing American Institutions (RAI) hosts its “State of American Institutions” conference on Thursday, November 30, and Friday, December 1. In this panel, participants discuss the dearth of civil discourse at universities. It is suggested that university administrations are struggling to adapt to the pace of the social media environment and political pressures exerted on campuses from outside forces. Participants...
Revitalizing Trust in the Military | Hoover Institution, RAI (Session 4)
December 01, 2023 17:00 - 1 hour - 99 MBDecember 1, 2023 Hoover Institution | Stanford University The Center for Revitalizing American Institutions (RAI) hosted its “State of American Institutions” conference on Thursday, November 30, and Friday, December 1. In this panel, participants discuss strengthening the American public’s trust in the US military. Despite the military enjoying greater trust compared to other institutions, its current level of 60 percent, as reported by a recent Gallup poll, still represents a recent decli...
Public Opinion, Primaries, and the 2024 Election | Hoover Institution, RAI (session 3)
December 01, 2023 15:00 - 52 minutes - 72.2 MBDecember 1, 2023 Hoover Institution | Stanford University In this keynote luncheon, David Kennedy, a distinguished visiting fellow at Hoover and a history professor at Stanford, offers a historical perspective on the American primary process. He outlines the effects of rule changes that followed the 1968 election, mandating the transfer of delegates to candidates based on the voters’ will rather than the discretion of party leaders in nominating contests. Kennedy is followed by Davies Famil...
Revitalizing Trust in Congress | Hoover Institution, RAI (session 2)
December 01, 2023 14:00 - 1 hour - 85.8 MBDecember 1. 2023 Hoover Institution | Stanford University The Center for Revitalizing American Institutions (RAI) hosts its “State of American Institutions” conference on Thursday, November 30, and Friday, December 1. In this panel, participants address how the US Congress can more effectively provide representation and regain the confidence of the American people. Panelists trace the decline in bipartisanship, attributing it to hyperpolarization that has grown across the twenty-first cent...
Executive Power and the Administrative State | Hoover Institution, RAI (session 1)
December 01, 2023 13:00 - 1 hour - 85.1 MBDecember 1. 2023 Hoover Institution | Stanford University The Center for Revitalizing American Institutions (RAI) hosted its “State of American Institutions” conference on Thursday, November 30, and Friday, December 1. In this panel, scholars discuss the legitimacy of regulatory agencies in the executive branch. Concerns are raised about the unelected nature of the administrative state and its potential encroachment on the lawmaking authority of elected representatives. Scholars also addre...
Hoover Institution’s new Center for the Revitalization of American Institutions (RAI): Executive Leadership In A Polarized Era: Rebuilding Trust In American Institutions
November 30, 2023 20:30 - 1 hour - 74.6 MBNovember 30, 2023 Hoover Institution | Stanford University Governors Wes Moore (D-Maryland) and Christopher Sununu (R-New Hampshire) in conversation with Hoover Institution Director Condoleezza Rice offering perspectives on the state of American institutions on Thursday, November 30, 2023 at 4:30 PM PT. Governors Wes Moore (D-Maryland) and Christopher Sununu (R-New Hampshire) in conversation with Hoover Institution Director Condoleezza Rice offering perspectives on the state of American ...
What Roles Can Veterans Play In Their Community | The Town Hall Series on Post-9/11 Veterans
November 10, 2023 04:17 - 1 hour - 83.7 MBA Post-9/11 Veteran Town Hall Discussion between Hoover Fellow Jacquelyn Schneider, Congresswoman Chrissy Houlahan, LTG (ret) H.R. McMaster, and Veteran Fellowship Program Fellows Megan Andros and Dave Foster. When veterans return home, they are not only supported by society, but also contributors to that society. Significant focus has been placed on the challenge of reintegrating post 9-11 veterans within a community that feels increasingly separated from the military. What is the role of ...
Book Talk With Melvyn P. Leffler: Confronting Saddam Hussein: George W. Bush And The Invasion Of Iraq | Hoover Institution
November 02, 2023 01:43 - 1 hour - 135 MBThe Hoover History held a Book Talk with Melvyn P. Leffler - Confronting Saddam Hussein: George W. Bush and the Invasion of Iraq on Friday, October 27, 2023 at 12:00 PM PT. America’s decision to go to war in Iraq in 2003 was highly contentious at the time, and continues to divide opinion severely. In some ways it could be considered the most important foreign policy choice of the so-called post-Cold War era. Melvyn Leffler revisits this episode armed with a unique set of personal interviews...
The Obsolescence of the Horse: Predicting the Future of Humanity in a World Dominated by Artificial Intelligence | Hoover Institution
November 01, 2023 08:42 - 14 minutes - 20.1 MBMonday, October 30, 2023 Hoover Institution | Stanford University A Hoover History Working Group Seminar with Matthew Lowenstein. The history of the rise and decline of horse populations provide a framework to understand how humans could initially benefit from AI, only to become obsolete later on, challenging optimistic forecasts about AI's impact. The paper is divided into three main sections: 1) introduction, including a brief summary of the premises of the horse analogy, 2) an account ...
Emerging Threats, Innovation, And Security | Hoover Institution
October 18, 2023 04:30 - 1 hour - 115 MBSecretary Condoleezza Rice & FBI Director Christopher Wray talk about Emerging Threats, Innovation, and Security with international partners Director-General Mike Burgess, Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO), Director General Ken McCallum, British Security Service (MI5), Director David Vigneault, Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), and Director-General Andrew Hampton, New Zealand Security Intelligence Service (NZSIS) on Tuesday, October 17, 2023 at 10:30 AM PT.
Hoover History Working Group: The Year That Broke Politics: Collusion and Chaos in the Presidential Election of 1968 | Luke A. Nichter and Niall Ferguson| Hoover Institution
October 18, 2023 00:58 - 14 minutes - 20.1 MBMonday, October 16, 2023 Hoover Institution | Stanford University The Year That Broke Politics describes the unknown story of the election that set the tone for today’s fractured politics. The 1968 presidential race was a contentious battle between Vice President Hubert Humphrey, Republican Richard Nixon, and former Alabama governor George Wallace. The United States was reeling from the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy, and was bitterly divided on the Vietnam...
Who is the Post-9/11 Veteran: Defining a Generation | The Town Hall Series on Post-9/11 Veterans
October 10, 2023 10:04 - 1 hour - 79.4 MBA Post-9/11 Veteran Town Hall Discussion between Hoover Fellow Jacquelyn Schneider, Maj. Gen. Angie Salinas, U.S. Marine Corps (Ret.) Veteran Fellowship Program Fellows Donnie Hasseltine, Trill Paullin, and Adrian Perkins Tuesday, October 10, 2023 - Patriot’s CASA, Texas A&M San Antonio Veterans are both a reflection of and a contributor to our society. How post-9/11 veterans think about this relationship plays a large role in how this generation will leave their mark on American communiti...
Hoover Book Club: The Civic Bargain: How Democracy Survives | Josiah Ober and Brook Manville| Hoover Institution
September 19, 2023 16:00 - 48 minutes - 44.7 MBJoin the Hoover Book Club for engaging discussions with leading authors on the hottest policy issues of the day. Hoover scholars explore the latest books that delve into some of the most vexing policy issues facing the United States and the world. Find out what makes these authors tick and how they think we should approach our most difficult challenges. In our latest installment, watch a discussion between Josiah Ober and Brook Manville, authors of The Civic Bargain: How Democracy Survives...
Book Talk With Timothy Garton Ash: Homelands: A Personal History Of Europe | Hoover Institution
August 31, 2023 07:58 - 1 hour - 56.4 MBThe Hoover Institution held a Book Talk with Timothy Garton Ash: Homelands: A Personal History of Europe on Tuesday, August 29, 2023 from 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM PT. This in-person-only event featured Condoleezza Rice, Michael McFaul, and Tobias Wolff in conversation with Timothy Garton Ash about his new book Homelands: A Personal History of Europe. In Homelands, Timothy Garton Ash gives a unique account of the history of Europe since 1945, in which the United States has been a vital actor. Th...
Sanctions and Russia: Effects, Lessons, and the Future | A History Lab Discussion with Stephen Kotkin | Hoover Institution
August 25, 2023 15:15 - 1 hour - 96.9 MBA Hoover History Lab Discussion between Kleinheinz Senior Fellow Stephen Kotkin and Sergei Guriev, provost and professor of economics at the Institut d'études politiques de Paris (Sciences Po) Many analysts are skeptical about the effects of the sweeping sanctions imposed by the West on Russia – pointing to the Kremlin’s apparent ability to weather and circumvent the harsh measures. They say that Russia’s resilience to this onslaught is due to its geostrategic advantages including the spraw...
Hoover Book Club: The Great School Rethink | Michael Hartney and Rick Hess | Hoover Institution
August 17, 2023 14:01 - 53 minutes - 49.3 MBAugust 15, 2023 Hoover Institution | Stanford University Join the Hoover Book Club for engaging discussions with leading authors on the hottest policy issues of the day. Hoover scholars explore the latest books that delve into some of the most vexing policy issues facing the United States and the world. Find out what makes these authors tick and how they think we should approach our most difficult challenges. In our latest installment, watch a discussion between Michael Hartney, a Hoover ...
Hoover Book Club: We May Dominate The World: Ambition, Anxiety, And The Rise Of The American Colossus | Sean Mirski and Matt Pottinger | Hoover Institution
July 27, 2023 14:00 - 52 minutes - 48.2 MBJoin the Hoover Book Club for engaging discussions with leading authors on the hottest policy issues of the day. Hoover scholars explore the latest books that delve into some of the most vexing policy issues facing the United States and the world. Find out what makes these authors tick and how they think we should approach our most difficult challenges. In our latest installment, watch a discussion between Matt Pottinger is a distinguished visiting fellow and Sean Mirski a Visiting Scholar...
Hoover Book Club: Equality of Opportunity: A Century of Debate | David Davenport and Bill Whalen | Hoover Institution
June 22, 2023 14:00 - 47 minutes - 43.3 MBJoin the Hoover Book Club for engaging discussions with leading authors on the hottest policy issues of the day. Hoover scholars explore the latest books that delve into some of the most vexing policy issues facing the United States and the world. Find out what makes these authors tick and how they think we should approach our most difficult challenges. In our latest installment, watch a discussion between Bill Whalen, the Virginia Hobbs Carpenter Distinguished Policy Fellow in Journalism ...
The Siberia Job | Based on a True Story | Stephen Kotkin and John Kleinheinz | Hoover Institution
June 09, 2023 05:37 - 59 minutes - 54.3 MBThe Hoover Institution hosts The Siberia Job | A Book Event on Wednesday, June 7, 2022 at 5:00 pm PT in Hauck Auditorium. Stephen Kotkin in conversation with John Kleinheinz to discuss the new book, The Siberia Job. Introduction by Condoleezza Rice. PARTICIPANT BIOS Stephen Kotkin is a Hoover senior fellow and a Professor of History and International Affairs at Princeton University. In addition to conducting research in the Hoover Library and Archives for three decades, he is also founde...
Hoover Book Club: Bread + Medicine: American Famine Relief in Soviet Russia, 1921–1923 | Bertrand Patenaude and Bill Whalen | Hoover Institution
June 01, 2023 14:00 - 58 minutes - 53.4 MBJune 1, 2023 Hoover Institution | Stanford University Join the Hoover Book Club for engaging discussions with leading authors on the hottest policy issues of the day. Hoover scholars explore the latest books that delve into some of the most vexing policy issues facing the United States and the world. Find out what makes these authors tick and how they think we should approach our most difficult challenges. In our latest installment, watch a discussion between Bill Whalen, the Virginia Hob...
The Port of Leningrad: From Late Communism to Crony Putinism | Norman Naimark and Tomasz Blusiewicz | Hoover Institution
May 10, 2023 01:18 - 20 minutes - 19.2 MBLooking at Russia in 2023, it is now clear that much has remained unchanged from Soviet times. The biggest change is the elimination of communist central planning, which made Russia’s regime stronger despite the initial turmoil of the 1990s. This paper offers a clue as to why the communist economic management system had to go, and why the KGB’s foreign intelligence and trade cadres, many of them based in Leningrad, came out on top of the refurbished new-old system, and did so with a vengeanc...
Ripe for Revolution: Building Socialism in the Third World | Hoover Institution
April 20, 2023 19:10 - 9 minutes - 12.7 MBA Hoover History Working Group Seminar with Jeremy Friedman. In the first decades after World War II, many newly independent Asian and African countries and established Latin American states pursued a socialist development model. Ripe for Revolution traces the socialist experiment over forty years through the experience of five countries: Indonesia, Chile, Tanzania, Angola, and Iran. These states sought paths to socialism without formal adherence to programs that Soviets, East Germans, Cub...
Global Discord: Values And Power In Fractured World Order | Hoover Institution
April 07, 2023 19:01 - 13 minutes - 19 MBApril 6, 2023 Hoover Institution | Stanford University A Hoover History Working Group Seminar with Sir Paul Tucker. Paul Tucker will be sharing his new book, Global Discord: Values and Power in a Fractured World Order, which considers the geopolitics and legitimacy of the international economic and legal system. The book develops an analysis of the history and future of the international order from the perspective of incentives-values compatibility, that is, the connection between self-en...
Watergate After 50 Years | Hoover Institution
March 29, 2023 01:41 - 16 minutes - 22.9 MBMarch 27, 2023 Hoover Institution | Stanford University A Hoover History Working Group Seminar with Luke Nichter, Geoff Shepard, and Dwight Chapin. New evidence has surfaced in the fifty years since President Nixon’s resignation. This seminar gathers together three prominent authorities on Watergate, the biggest political scandal of the 20th century. For 50 years, we were taught a carefully curated history of Watergate. It was the nation’s greatest political scandal: a White House-led co...
Not Accountable: Rethinking the Constitutionality of Public Employee Unions | Hoover Institution
March 28, 2023 14:00 - 55 minutes - 51 MBJoin the Hoover Book Club for engaging discussions with leading authors on the hottest policy issues of the day. Hoover scholars explore the latest books that delve into some of the most vexing policy issues facing the United States and the world. Find out what makes these authors tick and how they think we should approach our most difficult challenges. In our latest installment, watch a discussion between Terry Moe, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the William Bennett Munro P...
Hoover Book Club: Who Governs? Emergency Powers in the Time of COVID | Morris Fiorina | Hoover Institution
March 07, 2023 15:00 - 51 minutes - 71.3 MBJoin the Hoover Book Club for engaging discussions with leading authors on the hottest policy issues of the day. Hoover scholars explore the latest books that delve into some of the most vexing policy issues facing the United States and the world. Find out what makes these authors tick and how they think we should approach our most difficult challenges. In our latest installment, watch a discussion between Bill Whalen, the Virginia Hobbs Carpenter Distinguished Policy Fellow in Journalism ...
Markets vs. Mandates: Session 7: Keynote Session: “How Can Markets Capture the Social Benefits of Carbon Dioxide as Well as the Costs?” | Hoover Institution
February 28, 2023 20:09 - 53 minutes - 73.6 MBGuest Speaker: Matt Ridley Matt Ridley gave a presentation that challenged the conventional wisdom of carbon emissions, arguing that CO2 may provide more benefits than costs to the environment. Ridley outlined several benefits, principally the global greening of land and the oceans. When there is more CO2 in the atmosphere, vegetation can rely less on scarce water supplies. More CO2 would also result in higher yields and longer growing seasons, meaning that more land can be used for nature...
Markets vs. Mandates: Session 6: Reality and Rhetoric in Environmental Discourse | Hoover Institution
February 28, 2023 20:04 - 1 hour - 88 MBPresenters: Niall Ferguson, Milbank Family Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution; and Steven Koonin, Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution. Chair: Ronald Bailey, science correspondent, Reason Magazine. Steven Koonin argued that many advocates of sweeping mandates for climate change frequently peddle misinformation, promote extreme scenarios as the consequence of global temperature rises, and smear critics of their arguments as “deniers” and with other detractions. Koonin then presented several exa...
Markets vs. Mandates: Session 5: Adding Economics to Energy Engineering | Hoover Institution
February 28, 2023 19:59 - 1 hour - 83.8 MBPresenters: Mark P. Mills, senior fellow, Manhattan Institute; and David Victor, professor of innovation and public policy, University of California–San Diego. Chair: Neil Chatterjee, senior advisor, Hogan Lovells, and former commissioner and chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. Mark Mills argued that ambitious goals to achieve zero carbon emissions in the coming decades are delusional. He said that over the past 20 years, after $5 trillion spent worldwide, there hasn’t be...
Markets vs. Mandates: Session 4: Markets for Mitigation and Conservation | Hoover Institution
February 28, 2023 19:54 - 58 minutes - 80.1 MBPresenters: Christopher Costello, distinguished professor of resource economics, Bren School of Environmental Science & Management, University of California—Santa Barbara; and Barton “Buzz” Thompson, Robert E. Paradise Professor of Natural Resources Law, Stanford University Law School. Chair: Dominic Parker, Ilene and Morton Harris Visiting Fellow, Hoover Institution. During his remarks, Christopher Costello articulated the advantages of markets over regulatory approaches to conservation a...
Markets vs. Mandates: Session 3: Adapting to Climate Change | Hoover Institution
February 28, 2023 19:49 - 59 minutes - 81.8 MBPresenters: Matthew Kahn, Provost Professor of Economics and Spatial Sciences, University of Southern California; and Maria Waldinger, Deputy Director of the Ifo Center for Labor and Demographic Economics. Chair: Terry Anderson, John and Jean DeNault Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution. Maria Waldinger provided a historical analysis of how societies have adapted to climate conditions. The oldest adaptation strategy was migration, she explained, which was more easily achieved when societies w...
Markets vs. Mandates: Session 2: Corporate Responsibility, ESG Investing, and Climate Disclosures | Hoover Institution
February 28, 2023 19:44 - 1 hour - 95.5 MBPresenters: Sanjai Bhagat, professor of finance at the University of Colorado–Boulder; and John H. Cochrane, Rose-Marie and Jack Anderson Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution. Chair: John Taylor, George P. Shultz Senior Fellow in Economics, Hoover Institution. Sanjai Bhagat explained that ESG investing principles and new standards of corporate social responsibility are not based on the fiduciary duty to maximize shareholder value. They are primarily centered, he said, on maintaining the well-...
Markets vs. Mandates: Session 1: Thinking Clearly about Markets and Mandates | Hoover Institution
February 28, 2023 19:38 - 31 minutes - 43 MBPresenters: Terry Anderson, John and Jean De Nault Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution; and Dominic Parker, Ilene and Morton Harris Visiting Fellow, Hoover Institution. Terry Anderson began the conference sessions by providing definitions for mandates and markets in their environmental contexts. Mandates (or rules) means that politics and administrations assign environmental objectives and use fixed command-and-control mechanisms to achieve them. On the other hand, markets are based on proces...
Markets vs. Mandates: Introduction by Condoleezza Rice | Hoover Institution
February 28, 2023 19:32 - 6 minutes - 8.71 MBHoover director Condoleezza Rice introduced the conference by recalling the institution’s long history of researching environmental policy issues. Rice explained how the imitable George P. Shultz was a pioneer in advancing environmental solutions. In partnership with Tom Stephenson, former chair of the Hoover Board of Overseers, the late secretary of state formed a task force dedicated to identifying pragmatic policies aimed at strengthening America’s energy security while providing environ...
Book Club: How Policies Make Interest Groups: Governments, Unions, and American Education | Hoover Institution
February 14, 2023 15:05 - 53 minutes - 49 MBFebruary 14, 2023 Hoover Institution | Stanford University Join the Hoover Book Club for engaging discussions with leading authors on the hottest policy issues of the day. Hoover scholars explore the latest books that delve into some of the most vexing policy issues facing the United States and the world. Find out what makes these authors tick and how they think we should approach our most difficult challenges. In our latest installment, watch a discussion between Senior Fellow Terry Moe...
Security as Experiment: Fighting Terror and Transforming Imperialism after Napoleon | Hoover Institution
February 07, 2023 20:24 - 15 minutes - 21.3 MBFebruary 6, 2023 Hoover Institution | Stanford University A Hoover History Working Group Seminar with Beatrice de Graaf. Beatrice de Graaf illuminates how, long before economic considerations set in motion the creation of the European Union, collective European security provided the first impulse for the integration of European norms and institutions. After Napoleon's defeat in 1815, Europe’s victorious powers sought to forestall the reemergence of war and revolutionary terror by establ...
The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America | Hoover Institution
February 02, 2023 08:29 - 14 minutes - 20.2 MBJanuary 27, 2023 Hoover Institution | Stanford University A Hoover History Working Group Seminar with Margaret O’Mara. The Hoover History Working Group hosted a seminar on The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America on Friday, January 27, 2023 from 12:00 pm - 1:20 pm PT. ABOUT THE SPEAKER Margaret O’Mara is the Scott and Dorothy Bullitt Professor of American History at the University of Washington. She writes and teaches about the growth of the high-tech economy, the history of...
Recent Gyrations of the Prime Minister’s Office in Historical Perspective | Hoover Institution
January 31, 2023 04:47 - 16 minutes - 14.9 MBA Hoover History Working Group Seminar with Jon Davis. Jon Davis puts the recent gyrations in the prime minister’s office in historical perspective, analyzing how various prime ministers since the postwar era have exercised authority. Rather than being entirely autocratic or collective in style, prime ministers continuously adjust their decision-making approach within their cabinets. This framework helps shine a light on the dysfunction that plagued successive British governments after the ...
School Choice - Past, Present, And Future | Hoover Institution
January 27, 2023 19:16 - 1 hour - 84.5 MBJanuary 25, 2023 Hoover Institution | Stanford University In recognition of National School Choice Week (January 22-28, 2023), the Hoover Institution held an in-person panel discussion on the Past, Present and Future of School Choice on Wednesday, January 25, 2023 from 11:00 am - 12:00 pm PT. The event was moderated by Condoleezza Rice, the Tad and Dianne Taube Director of the Hoover Institution, and featured a virtual interview with Mitch Daniels, the former President of Purdue Universit...
The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War | Hoover Institution
January 19, 2023 00:37 - 10 minutes - 15.1 MBA Hoover History Working Group Seminar with Nicholas Mulder. Mulder’s first book, The Economic Weapon, is a history of the interwar origins of economic sanctions, arguing that sanctions were a potent but unstable and unpredictable political tool whose importance to the crisis of the 1930s and 1940s is greater than usually assumed. Based on wartime blockade practices, sanctions offered a novel way to prevent war. The practice became embedded in the League of Nations and national state policy...
In The Nation’s Service: The Life And Times Of George P. Shultz - A Conversation With Condoleezza Rice And Philip Taubman | Hoover Institution
January 15, 2023 08:18 - 54 minutes - 75.5 MBThe Hoover Institution and The Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) host In the Nation’s Service: The Life and Times of George P. Shultz - A Conversation with Condoleezza Rice and Philip Taubman on Wednesday, January 11, 2023 from 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM PT. ABOUT THE BOOK The definitive biography of a distinguished public servant, who as US Secretary of Labor, Secretary of the Treasury, and Secretary of State, was pivotal in steering the great powers toward the end of the C...
Hoover Book Club: Russ Roberts On Wild Problems: A Guide to the Decisions That Define Us
December 20, 2022 15:00 - 51 minutes - 47.3 MBDecember 20, 2022 Hoover Institution | Stanford University Join the Hoover Book Club for engaging discussions with leading authors on the hottest policy issues of the day. Hoover scholars explore the latest books that delve into some of the most vexing policy issues facing the United States and the world. Find out what makes these authors tick and how they think we should approach our most difficult challenges. In our latest installment, watch a discussion between Bill Whalen, the Virgini...
Hoover Book Club: Adele Hayutin On New Landscapes of Population Change: A Demographic World Tour
December 06, 2022 15:15 - 55 minutes - 102 MBJoin the Hoover Book Club for engaging discussions with leading authors on the hottest policy issues of the day. Hoover scholars explore the latest books that delve into some of the most vexing policy issues facing the United States and the world. Find out what makes these authors tick and how they think we should approach our most difficult challenges. In our latest installment, watch a discussion between Bill Whalen, the Virginia Hobbs Carpenter Distinguished Policy Fellow in Journalism ...
Empire of Ideas: Creating the Modern University from Germany to America to China | Niall Ferguson | Hoover Institution
December 01, 2022 03:30 - 15 minutes - 14.5 MBThe modern university was born in Germany. In the twentieth century, the United States leapfrogged Germany to become the global leader in higher education. Will China challenge its position in the twenty-first? Empires of Ideas looks to the past two hundred years for answers, chronicling two revolutions in higher education: the birth of the research university and its integration with the liberal education model. William C. Kirby examines the successes of leading universities―The University...