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Kevin and Steve reflect on discussions with Rice, Staiger and Eichengreen.

Barry Eichengreen on the role of the IMF in fostering prosperity.

Robert Staiger on the roles of the GATT and WTO in fostering international trade and prosperity.

Condoleezza Rice on the opt-in international system that arose after World War II and how it fostered prosperity.

Steven Davis here. Kevin Murphy and I are launching a new podcast called “Economics, Applied.” We are professors at the University of Chicago and Senior Fellows at the Hoover Institution. Our podcast aims to bring evidence and economic thinking to major policy issues. We interview guests who have first-hand experience in the policy arena and we discuss the issues with leading scholars. In some episodes Kevin and I just sit back and take stock of our conversations with guests and draw lessons. Please tune in!

The Hoover Institution and the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) hosted Ensuring America’s Innovation in Artificial Intelligence with Condoleezza Rice and Dr. Fei-Fei Li on Tuesday, June 30, 2020. Artificial Intelligence (AI) has the potential to radically transform every industry and every society. Such profound changes offer great opportunities to improve the human condition for the better, but also pose unprecedented challenges. As this new era arrives, the creators and designers of AI must account for diversity of thought and ensure systems are built to properly reflect what it means to be human. Guiding the future of AI in a responsible way that translates American values of equality, opportunity and individual freedom will be paramount to ensuring our shared dream of creating a better future for all of humanity.

Recorded on June 11, 2020 Humanity’s control over infectious disease – achieved by modern science, good policy, and economic growth – is one of the most remarkable successes of our species. But can a history of this triumph help us evaluate how fragile it is? And what does the COVID-19 pandemic look like in the long perspective of human control over infectious disease? Kyle Harper is Professor of Classics and Letters and the Senior Vice President and Provost at his alma mater, the University of Oklahoma. A historian of Rome, Harper is the author of three books, Slavery in the Late Roman World, awarded the James Henry Breasted Prize; From Shame to Sin: The Christian Transformation of Sexual Morality, which received the Award for Excellence in Historical Studies from the American Academy of Religion; and The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire, which has been translated into 11 languages. His next project is a history of infectious disease, from human origins to the present, which will bring the natural sciences into conversation with the study of the human past. ABOUT THE HOOVER HISTORY WORKING GROUP https://www.hoover.org/research-teams/history-working-group This interview is part of the History Working Group Seminar Series. A central piece of the History Working Group is the seminar series, which is hosted in partnership with the Hoover Library & Archives. The seminar series was launched in the fall of 2019, and thus far has included six talks from Hoover research fellows, visiting scholars, and Stanford faculty. The seminars provide outside experts with an opportunity to present their research and receive feedback on their work. While the lunch seminars have grown in reputation, they have been purposefully kept small in order to ensure that the discussion retains a good seminar atmosphere.

A panel discussion of the public health, rule of law, civil society and global policy dimensions of Taiwan’s response to the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic. Featuring Dr. Jason Wang, Prof. Chang Wen-Chen, Prof. Fan Yun, and Lanhee Chen Ph.D. Moderated by Glenn Tiffert Ph.D.

Recorded May 14, 2020, 11AM PST Hoover Institution Fellows Eric Hanushek And Margaret Raymond discuss COVID-19 And Schools The Hoover Institution presents an online virtual briefing series on pressing policy issues, including health care, the economy, democratic governance, and national security. Briefings will include thoughtful and informed analysis from our top scholars. ABOUT THE FELLOWS Eric Hanushek is the Paul and Jean Hanna Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. A leader in the economic analysis of educational issues, his research spans the impact on achievement of teacher quality, accountability, and class-size reduction. He pioneered measuring teacher quality on the basis of student achievement.  Margaret “Macke” Raymond is a Distinguished Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution and the founder and director of the Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO) at Stanford University. CREDO's work, which analyzes and evaluates programs that aim to improve outcomes for K-12 students in public schools, is heavily relied upon by policy makers at all levels of government. To receive notifications about upcoming briefings, please sign up by clicking here: http://eepurl.com/gXjSSb.

Recorded May 12, 2020, 11AM PST Hoover Institution Fellow Russell A. Berman: COVID-19 And Globalism. The Hoover Institution presents an online virtual briefing series on pressing policy issues, including health care, the economy, democratic governance, and national security. Briefings will include thoughtful and informed analysis from our top scholars. ABOUT THE FELLOW Russell A. Berman is a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. He formerly served as Senior Advisor in the Policy Planning Staff of the United States Department of State. To receive notifications about upcoming briefings, please sign up by clicking here: http://eepurl.com/gXjSSb.

Recorded May 8, 2020, 11AM PST Hoover Institution Fellows Edward Lazear and Niall Ferguson: COVID-19: Today’s Historic Jobs Report The Hoover Institution presents an online virtual briefing series on pressing policy issues, including health care, the economy, democratic governance, and national security. Briefings will include thoughtful and informed analysis from our top scholars. ABOUT THE FELLOWS Edward P. Lazear is the Morris Arnold and Nona Jean Cox Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Davies Family Professor of Economics at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business. Lazear served at the White House from 2006 to 2009, where he was chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers. Before coming to Stanford, he taught at the University of Chicago. Niall Ferguson, MA, D.Phil., is the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and a senior fellow of the Center for European Studies, Harvard, where he served for twelve years as the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History. He is also a visiting professor at Tsinghua University, Beijing, and the Diller-von Furstenberg Family Foundation Distinguished Scholar at the Nitze School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, DC. To receive notifications about upcoming briefings, please sign up by clicking here: http://eepurl.com/gXjSSb.

Recorded May 7, 2020, 11AM PST Hoover Institution Fellow John Yoo discusses COVID-19 And Federalism. The Hoover Institution presents an online virtual briefing series on pressing policy issues, including health care, the economy, democratic governance, and national security. Briefings will include thoughtful and informed analysis from our top scholars. ABOUT THE FELLOW John Yoo is a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution, Emanuel S. Heller Professor of Law at the University of California–Berkeley School of Law, and a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. To receive notifications about upcoming briefings, please sign up by clicking here: http://eepurl.com/gXjSSb.

Recorded May 5, 2020, 11AM PST Hoover Institution Fellows Scott Atlas And John Taylor: COVID 19 And Reopening the Economy . The Hoover Institution presents an online virtual briefing series on pressing policy issues, including health care, the economy, democratic governance, and national security. Briefings will include thoughtful and informed analysis from our top scholars. ABOUT THE FELLOWS Scott W. Atlas, M.D. is the David and Joan Traitel Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and was Chief of Neuroradiology at Stanford University Medical Center. John B. Taylor is the George P. Shultz Senior Fellow in Economics at the Hoover Institution and the Mary and Robert Raymond Professor of Economics at Stanford University. He chairs the Hoover Working Group on Economic Policy and is director of Stanford’s Introductory Economics Center. To receive notifications about upcoming briefings, please sign up by clicking here: http://eepurl.com/gXjSSb.

Recorded April 30, 2020, 11AM PST Hoover Institution Fellow Larry Diamond discusses COVID-19 And Democracy Around The World. The Hoover Institution presents an online virtual briefing series on pressing policy issues, including health care, the economy, democratic governance, and national security. Briefings will include thoughtful and informed analysis from our top scholars. ABOUT THE FELLOW Larry Diamond is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. For more than six years, he directed FSI’s Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law, where he now leads its Program on Arab Reform and Democracy and its Global Digital Policy Incubator. To receive notifications about upcoming briefings, please sign up by clicking here: http://eepurl.com/gXjSSb.

Recorded April 28, 2020, 11AM PST Hoover Institution Fellow George Osborne: COVID-19 And The UK. The Hoover Institution presents an online virtual briefing series on pressing policy issues, including health care, the economy, democratic governance, and national security. Briefings will include thoughtful and informed analysis from our top scholars. ABOUT THE FELLOW George Osborne is the William C. Edwards Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution. From 2010 to 2016 he served as Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer, during that time he was a member of the National Security Council, and he also served as Britain's First Secretary of State. Prior, he was a Member of Parliament. Osborne is currently the Editor of the Evening Standard. To receive notifications about upcoming briefings, please sign up by clicking here: http://eepurl.com/gXjSSb.

Recorded April 23, 2020, 11AM PST Hoover Institution Fellow H.R. McMaster on COVID-19: the Geopolitical and Geoeconomic Implications The Hoover Institution presents an online virtual briefing series on pressing policy issues, including health care, the economy, democratic governance, and national security. Briefings will include thoughtful and informed analysis from our top scholars. ABOUT THE FELLOW H. R. McMaster is the Fouad and Michelle Ajami Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. He was the 26th assistant to the president for National Security Affairs. He served as a commissioned officer in the United States Army for thirty-four years before retiring as a Lieutenant General in June 2018. To receive notifications about upcoming briefings, please sign up by clicking here: http://eepurl.com/gXjSSb.

Recorded April 21, 2020, 11AM PST Hoover Institution Fellow Joshua D. Rauh on COVID-19 and the Government Response. The Hoover Institution presents an online virtual briefing series on pressing policy issues, including health care, the economy, democratic governance, and national security. Briefings will include thoughtful and informed analysis from our top scholars. ABOUT THE FELLOW Joshua D. Rauh is a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Ormond Family Professor of Finance at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. He formerly served at the White House where he was Principal Chief Economist on the President's Council of Economic Advisers, as well as taught at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business and the Kellogg School of Management. To receive notifications about upcoming briefings, please sign up by clicking here: http://eepurl.com/gXjSSb.

Recorded April 16, 2020, 11AM PST Hoover Institution fellows David Brady and Douglas Rivers provide a briefing on COVID-19 and Politics. The Hoover Institution presents an online virtual briefing series on pressing policy issues, including health care, the economy, democratic governance, and national security. Briefings will include thoughtful and informed analysis from our top scholars. ABOUT THE FELLOWS Douglas Rivers is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and a professor of political science at Stanford University. He is also the Chief Scientist at YouGov PLC, a global polling firm. David Brady is a senior fellow emeritus at the Hoover Institution and the Bowen H. and Janice Arthur McCoy Professor of Political Science in the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He has published seven books and more than a hundred papers on elections, politics and public policy. To receive notifications about upcoming briefings, please sign up by clicking here: http://eepurl.com/gXjSSb.

Recorded April 14, 2020, 11AM PST Hoover Institution Fellow and Director Designee Condoleezza Rice on COVID-19 and National Security. The Hoover Institution presents an online virtual briefing series on pressing policy issues, including health care, the economy, democratic governance, and national security. Briefings will include thoughtful and informed analysis from our top scholars. ABOUT THE FELLOW Condoleezza Rice is currently the Denning Professor in Global Business and the Economy at the Stanford Graduate School of Business; the Thomas and Barbara Stephenson Senior Fellow on Public Policy at the Hoover Institution; and a professor of political science at Stanford University. She is also a founding partner of RiceHadleyGates, LLC. To receive notifications about upcoming briefings, please sign up by clicking here: http://eepurl.com/gXjSSb.

Recorded April 9, 2020, 11AM PST Hoover Institution Fellow Victor Davis Hanson on COVID-19 and the Lessons of History. The Hoover Institution presents an online virtual briefing series on pressing policy issues, including health care, the economy, democratic governance, and national security. Briefings will include thoughtful and informed analysis from our top scholars. ABOUT THE FELLOW Victor Davis Hanson is the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution; his focus is classics and military history. To receive notifications about upcoming briefings, please sign up by clicking here: http://eepurl.com/gXjSSb.

Recorded April 7, 2020, 11AM PST Hoover Institution Fellow John Taylor on COVID-19 and the Economy. The Hoover Institution presents an online virtual briefing series on pressing policy issues, including health care, the economy, democratic governance, and national security. Briefings will include thoughtful and informed analysis from our top scholars. ABOUT THE FELLOW John B. Taylor is the George P. Shultz Senior Fellow in Economics at the Hoover Institution and the Mary and Robert Raymond Professor of Economics at Stanford University. He chairs the Hoover Working Group on Economic Policy and is director of Stanford’s Introductory Economics Center. To receive notifications about upcoming briefings, please sign up by clicking here: http://eepurl.com/gXjSSb.

Recorded April 4, 2020, 11AM PST Hoover Institution Fellow Ed Lazear provides a briefing on COVID-19 and today's jobs report. The Hoover Institution presents an online virtual briefing series on pressing policy issues, including health care, the economy, democratic governance, and national security. Briefings will include thoughtful and informed analysis from our top scholars. To receive notifications about upcoming briefings, please sign up by clicking here: http://eepurl.com/gXjSSb.

Recorded April 2, 2020, 11AM PST Hoover Institution Fellows Michael Auslin and Lanhee Chen provide a briefing on the COVID-19 pandemic, China, and the Political Fallout. The Hoover Institution presents an online virtual briefing series on pressing policy issues, including health care, the economy, democratic governance, and national security. Briefings will include thoughtful and informed analysis from our top scholars. ABOUT THE FELLOWS Michael Auslin is the Payson J. Treat Distinguished Research Fellow in Contemporary Asia at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. A historian by training, he specializes in current and historical U.S. policy in Asia and political and security issues in the Indo-Pacific region. Lanhee J. Chen, Ph.D. is the David and Diane Steffy Fellow in American Public Policy Studies at the Hoover Institution and Director of Domestic Policy Studies and Lecturer in the Public Policy Program at Stanford University. To receive notifications about upcoming briefings, please sign up by clicking here: http://eepurl.com/gXjSSb.

MICHAEL AUSLIN and LANHEE CHEN: COVID-19, China and the Political Fallout. Thursday, April 2, 2020 at 11AM PT/ 2PM ET

The Hoover Institution presents an online virtual briefing series on pressing policy issues, including health care, the economy, democratic governance, and national security. Briefings will include thoughtful and informed analysis from our top scholars. NIALL FERGUSON: COVID-19 in the Light of History and Network Science. Tuesday, March 31, 2020 at 11AM PT/ 2PM ET

The Hoover Institution presents an online virtual briefing series on pressing policy issues, including health care, the economy, democratic governance, and national security. Briefings will include thoughtful and informed analysis from our top scholars. SCOTT W. ATLAS on COVID-19 and Health Care Recorded on Thursday, March 26, 2020 at 11AM

The Hoover Institution presents an online virtual briefing series on pressing policy issues, including health care, the economy, democratic governance, and national security. Briefings will include thoughtful and informed analysis from our top scholars. KEVIN WARSH on COVID-19 and the Federal Reserve Tuesday, March 24, 2020 at 11AM PT/ 2PM ET

Recorded March 23, 2020, 11AM PST Hoover Senior Fellow John H. Cochrane provides a briefing on the COVID-19 pandemic and how it is affecting the US economy. The Hoover Institution presents an online virtual briefing series on pressing policy issues, including health care, the economy, democratic governance, and national security. Briefings will include thoughtful and informed analysis from our top scholars

Hoover Institution fellow Bill Whalen discusses Trump’s victory in the 2016 presidential election, defying projections by garnering 306 electoral votes; and also talks about how Trump could prevent falling below the 270 votes required to win the 2020 election. Whalen focuses on 10 states that have played pivotal roles in past elections and identifies others that will be important in 2020. He also sheds light on the upcoming gubernatorial elections in various states, including those that will have a major impact on the presidential race. He further describes how the candidate’s age is an important factor for voters. Lastly, Bill focuses on the nature of the attacks Trump will likely face from his opposition.

Hoover Institution Senior Fellow Lee Ohanian discusses the growing interest in socialism and socialist policies among some political circles. He also talks about the dangers that exist for our economy if socialist policies are implemented. He describes the examples of China and India, which both flourished economically after abandoning socialist policies. He also addresses the distortions that the 2020 democratic presidential candidates have presented about capitalism.

Hoover Senior Research Fellow Lee Ohanian discusses how the two major political parties have evolved over time. He also talks about the various candidates running for president in 2020 and how these leaders have evolved, sharing facts and figures and his thoughts on how they can impact the country.

Hoover Senior Research Fellow Shelby Steele discusses the face of racism throughout US history. He focuses on how liberal movements have changed the way people view racism and how the struggle with that old evil is still ongoing.

Hoover Research Fellow Abbas Milani discusses the implications of military confrontation on US-Iran relations. He explains the reason for turmoil between the two countries and how it can lead to war. He also explains the state of mind of US government leaders who do not want a war with Iran.

In this episode, Adam Segal of the Council on Foreign Relations discusses US-China relations in the context of cybersecurity, the digital supply chain, and trade.

Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow Victor Davis Hanson analyzes the evidence for a Trump administration doctrine and what has been accomplished. He discusses how polarization has made it hard to talk about Trump, but that the president’s tough stances in foreign policy have been working with NATO and Russia.

Fouad and Michelle Ajami Senior Fellow H. R. McMaster discusses the post-9/11 wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and the prospects of future wars in the region. He explains how the threat of transnational terrorist organizations is getting larger and that the United States needs to structure future war efforts for sustainable political outcomes.

Senior Fellow William Damon discusses how the current American education system fails to instill a sense of purpose in students. He argues that schools ought to be places that encourage and cultivate students’purpose, which will benefit them immensely in the long run.

Senior Fellow Michael McConnell examines the Trump administration’s policies and the many legal cases that have arisen to challenge them. He breaks down the issues of the census citizenship question, the Muslim travel ban, and unlawful minority-voter suppression.

Payson J. Treat Fellow in Contemporary Asia Michael Auslin breaks down US foreign policy with regards to China, North Korea, and the Indo-Pacific. He grades the Trump administration on its policy stances toward this region and gives his midterm grade for the administration. Michael Auslin is the cohost of the Hoover Institution’s podcast The Pacific Century.

John and Jean De Nault Senior Fellow Terry Anderson breaks down the reasons socialism doesn’t work by using the contemporary example of Native American reservations. He discusses the problems indigenous communities have historically had in attempting to gain fiscal independence from the US government and new changes under way among various tribes to start generating revenue.

Davis Family Senior Fellow Amy Zegart discusses the future of coercion between sovereign countries in the era of drones. She breaks down the different threats drones can pose, their cost differences compared to manned weaponry, and how the American people tend to approve of drone strikes against terrorists.

Louis Armstrong was interviewed on the Czechoslovak service of Radio Free Europe on February 10, 1968. This is a brief clip of one of Louis Armstrong’s responses.

Louis Armstrong was interviewed on the Czechoslovak service of Radio Free Europe on February 10, 1968. The interview is conducted in Czechoslovak with responses in English. Listen to Armstrong sing at 05:12.

The Hoover Institution hosted "Security by the Book with Henry Farrell & Abraham L. Newman" on Tuesday, April 23, 2019 from 5:30 PM – 6:30 PM EST. Of Privacy and Power investigates how the European Union and United States, the two major regulatory systems in world politics, have regulated privacy and security, and how their agreements and disputes have reshaped the transatlantic relationship. Henry Farrell and Abraham L. Newman was interviewed by Jack Goldsmith, Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution.

In this episode, Stanford researcher Fiona Cunningham discusses cybersecurity in relation to China, addressing areas including military strategy and computer technology in the context of China’s overall strategic and geopolitical goals.

Clint Bolick, Hoover fellow and associate justice of the Supreme Court of Arizona, breaks down the future of the US Supreme Court, what will change with the new justices, and what will remain the same. He analyzes the current court’s makeup of textualists and living constitutionalists and what it means for the future of the United States law.

Hoover Institution Senior Fellow Lee Ohanian analyzes the policies of the 2020 Democratic presidential candidates. He discusses what the Green New Deal would mean for the economy and how the candidates in this election are moving the party further left.

Peter and Helen Bing Senior Fellow Michael McFaul discusses Putin’s Russia and the current state of “hot peace” foreign relations with the United States. He analyzes how more Russians and Americans have been sanctioned by both countries than were ever sanctioned during the Cold War and how the annexation of Crimea was the real turning point for Putin’s Russia.

H. R. McMaster discusses his time as President Trump’s national security adviser, and his experience dealing with transnational terrorist organizations and hostile states like North Korea. He breaks down why it is time to restore America’s strategic competence on the world stage.

Herbert Lin breaks down issues of cybersecurity in our increasingly cyberconnected world. He analyzes how cyberenabled information wars are a new form of warfare that is becoming increasingly dangerous as computers become part of every aspect of our daily lives.