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Hoover Institution: Area 45
by Hoover Institution
Just as area 45 is a medical term for a frontal portion of the human brain, we intend to take a cerebral approach to governing in this toxic political climate. There will be no rancor, no partisanship, but instead Hoover fellows’ keen insights on such thorny matters as taxation and economic growth, health care reform, national security, government entitlements, and improving schools.
Episodes
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The State Of The US Economy With John Taylor
The state of the US economy in two words: "getting better." That's the learned opinion of John Taylor, the Hoover Institution's George P. Shultz Senior Fellow in Economics and the Mary and Robert Raymond Professor of Economics at Stanford University. He forecasts continued growth thanks to the...
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On Top Of The World With David Slayton
Though it's a relatively small expanse (just one-and-a-half times the size of the US), the Arctic Ocean is fraught with global strategic concerns. David Slayton, a Hoover research fellow and co-chair of Hoover's Arctic Security Initiative, explains the Trump Administration's options on "the top…
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Influencing Influenza with Dr. Henry Miller
A century ago, an American president had little to say while the world was ravaged by a flu pandemic. In 2018, in the midst of yet another flu epidemic, so too is President Trump silent. What are the Trump Administration's options in terms of offering vaccines, speeding up drug research and…
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Act II: Mitt Romney vs. the White House
Ordinarily, the second-place finisher in a presidential election doesn't have a second political act. But the times aren't ordinary and Mitt Romney, the 2012 GOP nominee, is now a US Senate candidate in Utah. Hoover research fellow Lanhee Chen, Romney's 2012 policy director, discusses what...
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President Trump, From A Libertarian Perspective
A funny thing happened to America's libertarian movement – it expected a champion to emerge in the 2016 election; it may or may not have one in Donald Trump. Richard Epstein, the Hoover Institution's Peter and Kirsten Bedford Senior Fellow and the voice behind "The Libertarian" podcast, grades…
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Trump, By The Numbers
With the polling data available, how does the discerning citizen make sense of the Trump presidency and the probabilities in the upcoming midterm election? David Brady, the Hoover Institution's Davies Family Senior Fellows, offers his viewers' guide for how to track U.S. politics in the months...
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The State Of The Golden State
California, the land of anti-Trump "resistance", has its own problems both irresistible and intractable – mounting public pension debt, underfunded schools, and a revenue stream too dependent upon capital gains. David Crane, a Stanford lecturer, past economic aide to Governor Arnold…
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Iran on the Brink? with Abbas Milani
Eight years after Iran's Green Movement and antigovernment protests, will the current unrest in the nation have no lasting impact or is it the beginning of the end for the repressive theocracy? Abbas Milani, a Hoover research fellow and the Hamid and Christina Moghadam Director of Iranian Studies...
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Battleground Washington: Trump versus DC
Recorded on December 12, 2017 Washington, DC, is a complicated town full of competing interests vying to control the federal government. Michael Franc, director of the Hoover Institution's research and initiatives program in the nation's capital and a former congressional aide, takes us through…
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The Media, the Message, and President Trump, Featuring Debra J. Saunders
Recorded on December 11, 2017 For years Hoover media fellow Debra J. Saunders was the San Francisco Chronicle's token conservative columnist until moving to Washington to cover the Trump White House for the Las Vegas Review–Journal. In this podcast she offers a ringside account of White House…
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China's Maritime Silk Road and American Naval Readiness, Featuring Admiral Gary Roughead
Recorded on December 11, 2017 As the US Navy carries out high-profile missions in the Persian Gulf and off the Korean coast, China's navy quietly continues its expansion: a maritime silk road stretching across the Indian Ocean to the Gulf of Aden. Admiral Gary Roughead, former US Navy chief of...
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Who's in Charge of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau? Featuring Adam White
A question over who's in charge of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has led to a standoff between the Trump administration and the Rebel Alliance: independent-minded CFPB staffers who believe they don't report to the president. Hoover fellow Adam White discusses Trump's battle with...
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Remembering Pearl Harbor
Seventy-six years ago, following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, America went to war. Victor Davis Hanson, Hoover senior fellow and author of The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won, discusses lessons learned from that conflict's successes and failures and how...
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Unstable Majorities: Polarization, Party Sorting, and Political Stalemate Featuring Morris Fiorina
America at its worst divide since the Civil War? Not exactly, says Hoover senior fellow Morris Fiorina, the author of Unstable Majorities: Polarization, Party Sorting, and Political Stalemate. Fiorina contends that voters haven't abandoned the center but that the two major parties have, the…
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Lee Harvey Oswald Was My Friend Featuring Paul Gregory
In November 1963 Paul Gregory's family resided in Fort Worth, Texas. As members of the city's Russian immigrant community, they befriended Lee and Marina Oswald. Gregory recounts his time in the company of JFK's assassin, possible motivations for Oswald's committing the crime, and why he doesn't...
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The Future of Germany Featuring Russell Berman
The good news for Angela Merkel is to be re-elected to a fourth term as German chancellor. The bad news is fashioning a working coalition of political parties divided over taxes, immigration, and climate policy. Hoover Institution senior fellow Russell Berman examines the options available to...
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Hoover Fellow Doug Rivers Breaks Down the Virginia Election
A year after Donald Trump's improbable win, voters went to the polls in Virginia to elect a new governor—a contest that was, in part, a referendum on Trump's nascent presidency. Hoover senior fellow and renowned pollster Doug Rivers breaks down the Old Dominion vote and what the results say about...
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Hamilton—the Man, the Myth —the Donald?
Lionized in print and on theater stages, Alexander Hamilton is a curious bookend for a new president who likewise calls Manhattan home, is steeped in capitalism, and uses the media to joust with his rivals. Elizabeth Cobbs, a Hoover Institution senior fellow and author of The Hamilton Affair: A...
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Of Patents, Trump, and Trolls Featuring Stephen Haber
The United States is tenth in the world among nations' protecting intellectual property. In 2016 US patent applications declined by one percent. Stephen Haber, the Hoover Institution's Peter and Helen Bing Senior Fellow, examines a patent landscape that includes Big Pharma, Big Tech, legal…
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Let's Get This Party Started Featuring Lanhee Chen
America's GOP dominates at all levels of government—state legislative, gubernatorial, congressional, presidential—yet Republicans have struggled, quite publicly, to come to terms with the party's direction during the era of Trump. Lanhee Chen, the Hoover Institution's David and Diane Steffy...
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Trump's Energy Strategy, the Nuclear Option, featuring Jeremy Carl
Recorded on October 6, 2017 A new administration means a new approach to federal energy approach, in the case of Donald Trump's presidency, a new look at nuclear energy. Hoover research fellow Jeremy Carl, coauthor of Keeping the Lights on at America's Nuclear Power Plants, examines the choices...
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American Attitudes toward Immigration featuring Tim Kane
Recorded on September 28, 2017 As Congress and the White House wrestle over immigration reform—funding for a border wall, protecting Dreamers—what is the public's attitude? Timothy Kane, the Hoover Institution's J. P Conte Fellow in Immigration Studies, highlights the findings of a new...
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Is Entitlement Reform Possible? Featuring John Cogan
It's a tradition dating back to the Founding Fathers: the American government financing safeguards, be it retirement (Social Security), health benefits (Medicare), or rewards for military service in the form of federal entitlements. In an age of debt and deficits, when will lawmakers address...
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The Geopolitics of China and North Korea
Recorded on September 26, 2017 The largest nation on the other side of the Pacific Rim plays an outsized role in economic and geopolitical matters, including trade, global aspirations, and finding a solution to the escalating tensions with North Korea. Michael Auslin, Hoover's inaugural...
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The North Korean Conundrum
Recorded on September 26, 2017 After nearly a quarter of a century of the same approach—diplomacy, sanctions, and concessions—the United States seems out of policy options other than a military solution with regard to North Korea . Michael Auslin, Hoover's inaugural Williams-Griffis Fellow in...
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The Trump Administration's Peacemaking Strategy in Israel
Recorded on September 13, 2017 "In Israel, in order to be a realist . . . you have to believe in miracles," observed the late David Ben-Gurion. Peter Berkowitz, the Hoover Institution's Tad and Dianne Taube Senior Fellow and an expert on Israeli affairs, assesses the Trump administration's...
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A House Divided – Can the Conservatives Come Together?
An irony of Donald Trump: in the process of besting Hillary Clinton, he also divided conservatives into three camps. So contends Tevi Troy, a best-selling author and political analyst who worries about the lack of an intellectual presence in the current White House. Did you like the show? Please...
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A Better Strategy for the Next Natural Disaster in Light of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma
Americans watched with forlorn fascination as devastating hurricanes laid waste to stretches of Florida and Texas. Hoover research fellow Alice Hill explains how the nation can better prepare for future natural disasters. The key word is "resilience." Did you like the show? Please rate, review…
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A View from across the Aisle
Representative Ro Khanna, a California Democrat from Silicon Valley and vice chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, discusses the feasibility of re-creating the technology economy in other parts of the United States. Is there room for working with the Trump administration, or are his…
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School of Public Opinion: K–12 Schools in the United States
Recorded on July 24, 2017 With schools in session across the country, Hoover senior fellow Paul Peterson details this year's survey of American education by Education Next. Among the more notable results: teachers are wary of their colleagues' performance; parents are increasingly dissatisfied…
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President Trump Rolls Past 200 Days
Where does President Trump stand in the opinion polls now that his second hundred days in office are complete? David Brady and Doug Rivers, both Hoover senior fellows and Stanford political scientists, reveal data showing where Republicans and independents stand on this presidency and what if any...
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The Divided States of America
Recorded on July 26, 2017 So many of the presumptions going into the November election–Donald Trump swamped by a tidal wave of vengeful women, minorities, and progressives – didn't pan out. Why? Morris Fiorina, a Hoover Institution senior fellow and Stanford University political scientist, sees a...
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Discovering America One Day at a Time
Recorded on July 20, 2017 How do you remedy Americans' lack of historical knowledge? By picking up a copy of On This Date–from the Pilgrims to Today, Discovering America One Day At a Time. The book's author, Carl Cannon, is the Real Clear Politics Washington bureau chief and Hoover media fellow.…
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Is the Legislative Branch Broken?
Recorded on July 19, 2017 Six months into the Trump presidency the GOP Congress struggles with the promise of swift and dramatic reforms. Kevin Kosar, the R Street Institute's vice president of policy and a ten-year veteran of Capitol Hill, discusses how the legislative branch became the weakest…
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Trump's Executive Orders
One hundred and fifty days into his presidency, Donald Trump is on pace to issue the most executive orders for a first-year president since Harry Truman in 1945. Hoover research fellow Adam White reviews the highs and lows of Trump's signing flurry–and discusses the need for the Trump White House...
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America's 241st Birthday
Summary As the nation prepares for its Fourth of July celebration, the question arises of where the Trump presidency fits in the mosaic of American leadership. David M. Kennedy, a Stanford University historian and Pulitzer Prize winner, discusses the current state of the Republic and whether…
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President Trump's Report Card
As Donald Trump's presidency passes the five-month mark, Hoover senior fellows Dave Brady and Doug Rivers share their polling on Trump's support from Republicans and independents, plus his policy strengths and weaknesses. We also take a further look at the significance of the United Kingdom's...
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The State Of The United Kingdom
The drama in Washington? A pittance compared to the upheaval across the pond: British prime minister Theresa May's disastrous snap election. Hoover Institution senior fellow Niall Ferguson, a native Scot, assesses May's future and that of Brexit, plus where the Trump presidency stands as it...
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The Art of Presidential Wordsmithery Featuring Peter Robinson
Presidents are defined by rhetorical moments: Reagan and Kennedy at the Berlin Wall; George W. Bush rallying the nation after the 9/11 attacks. And Donald Trump? So far his presidency hasn't been one of major addresses. Hoover fellow Peter Robinson, author of Reagan's famous speech at the...
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The Fate Of Obamacare
Recorded on May 25, 2017 As far as the fate of Obamacare goes, the ball's in the Senate's court: to alter the House's plan or develop a prescription of its own. Dr. Scott Atlas, the Hoover Institution's David and Joan Traitel Senior Fellow and a frequent author on Obamacare, discusses the most...
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President Trump, a Rugged Individualist?
The American dream rests on the notion on "rugged individualism": freedom, liberty, and equality of opportunity and a tradition of conquering physical, economic, social, and political frontiers. David Davenport, coauthor of Rugged Individualism: Dead or Alive?, looks at President Trump's…
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Cyber Security
It's a threat the likes of which America has never faced: the theft of intellectual property, lifestyle disruptions, and attacks tailored to degrade or destroy the nation's military capabilities. Amy Zegart, the Hoover Institution's Davies Family Senior Fellow and codirector and senior fellow at...
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The French Elections
Hoover senior fellow Russell Berman, a specialist in the study of German literary and cultural politics, takes us through the aftershocks of the French presidential election. Is German chancellor Angela Merkel breathing a sigh of relief or, despite the nationalist setback in France, does her…
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Trump's First Hundred Days (Plus Six)
Hoover political scientists David Brady and Doug Rivers diagnose the Trump presidency's health based on polling data and the state of antiglobalization populism on the eve of France's presidential vote. Will European Union resentment, like many a would-be invader, fail to make it across the…
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The Media vs. Donald Trump
Recorded on April 13, 2017 No presidency in the post–Watergate era has had this contentious a relationship with the Fourth Estate. Rarely have correspondents and news outlets been this boisterous in their objection to the policies and personality of a sitting president. Dan Balz, chief...
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Trump's First Hundred Days
As the Trump presidency approaches its first notable milestone, we check in with Victor Davis Hanson, Hoover senior fellow and proprietor of The Classicist podcast, on the administration's early moves. It was Victor Davis Hanson who saw the Trump train approaching long before it overran the...
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The Environment
As Earth Day approaches, Hoover senior fellow Terry Anderson rates the new interior secretary and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administrator and suggests some free-market environmental principles for the two to pursue. Also should the Trump administration revisit the century-old...
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North Korea
As tensions mount on the Korean Peninsula, the possibility increases of a US military strike against the rogue regime of Kim Jong-un. Tom Henriksen, a Hoover senior fellow emeritus and author of multiple books on US military and diplomatic approaches to the non-Western world and rogue regimes,...
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The Gorsuch Nomination
As the US Senate decides the fate of Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch, we look at the fragile state of the federal judicial nomination process. Hoover senior fellow Michael McConnell, who served alongside Gorsuch on the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals, offers insights into the judge, the merits…
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Education Reform
Recorded on March 9, 2017 President Trump calls it "the civil rights issue of our time," offering low-income families their choice of better schools. Checker Finn, a Hoover Institution senior fellow and chair of Hoover's Task Force on K-12 Education, assesses the state of vouchers, charter…
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Just as area 45 is a medical term for a frontal portion of the human brain, we intend to take a cerebral approach to governing in this toxic political climate. There will be no rancor, no partisanship, but instead Hoover fellows’ keen insights on such thorny matters as taxation and economic growth, health care reform, national security, government entitlements, and improving schools.
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