Lessons From The Hoover Policy Boot Camp

Steven Koonin reviews the state of climate science, focusing on data trends, climate models, and the uncertainties involved. He highlights issues with climate models, including their high sensitivity and inability to accurately reproduce historical temperature changes, cautioning against relying on inaccurate model projections.

General Jim Mattis and Professor Stephen Kotkin emphasize the importance of strong alliancesto address threats from nations like Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea while preserving American democratic values in an increasingly complex geopolitical landscape.

Hoover Fellow, Jacquelyn Schneider, provides an overview to the evolution of US cybersecurity and places particular significance on developing strategies which can adapt over time to the ever-changing landscape of digital threats.

Senior Hoover Fellow, Scott Atlas, lays out how well-intentioned policies, such as Covid-related lockdowns and single-payer healthcare systems often have catastrophic unintended consequences…

Hoover Institution Senior Fellow, Russell Berman, discusses the complexities of U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East, balancing competing interests, regional stability, and the promotion of values in a challenging geopolitical landscape.

The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank served as a wake-up call for other financial institutions, regulators, and investors, highlighting the need for more robust risk management practices, more transparency, and greater need to proactively address vulnerabilities in the financial system.  Amit Seru, Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, examines what factors led up to SVB’s failure and presents innovative short-term and long-term solutions to help stave off bank failures in the future.   

Federal entitlement program spending has ballooned over the past 60 years and is the main driver behind the growth in size of the US federal government and federal debt and deficits.  This unsustainable fiscal path leads to a dead end of crushing tax increases, spiraling interest costs, glacially slow economic growth, and benefit restrictions.

Through a question-and-answer session, Professor John Yoo discusses recent United States Supreme Court opinions that have impacted our understanding of natural rights. 

Common misconceptions about the rise of income and wealth inequality are exposed and reveal a far more complex reality. 

Condoleezza Rice explores the history of great-power rivalry and what it means for Russia, China, and future conflicts.

Hoover senior fellow Brandice Canes-Wrone explores how well policy is representative of America and what influences policy choices.

Hoover senior fellow Niall Ferguson explains the difference between free and unfree societies, and how the history of the 20th century is often misapplied to situations today.

Terry Moe analyzes the effectiveness, history, and politics of school vouchers.

Hoover senior fellow Russell Berman delves into the process of foreign policy formulation and draws from his own experiences in developing foreign policy in the Middle East.

Hoover senior fellow Elizabeth Economy provides her perspective on Xi Jinping’s global ambitions and how likely he is to succeed in reaching them.

Hoover senior fellow John Cochrane explains the fiscal and monetary theories of inflation, how they differ, and why there might be a better solution for inflation.

Hoover senior fellow Scott Atlas provides a critical analysis of the measures taken during the COVID-19 pandemic and reviews the resulting effects.

Elizabeth Economy identifies and explains the essential elements of devising and implementing an effective foreign policy and national security strategy toward China.

Modern challenges to the international system are affecting US responses to its great-power rivals. Condoleezza Rice unpacks the challenges that global hotspots pose to American and international security.

H. R. McMaster answers questions about national security from students and explains how important principles of national security apply to the withdrawal from Afghanistan.

David Leal explains how the Latino segment of the US electorate fits into the political landscape.

Peter Berkowitz discusses the differences between two economic systems: socialism and capitalism.

Stephen Haber discusses the US economy and the role intellectual property rights play in increasing prosperity.

Michael McConnell discusses the history of the Bill of Rights.

H. R. McMaster discusses how America’s strategic competence has evolved over time and how to regain a robust national security strategy.

The liberal international order established after World War II is facing new challenges. Condoleezza Rice discusses modern threats to the international system and how policy makers are responding. 

State and local governments are not setting aside nearly enough money to pay for the pensions they have promised to their workers. As a result, taxpayers will have to make up any shortfalls in the form of higher taxes or fewer public services.

Free market environmentalism is a property rights-oriented approach that improves environmental quality and achieves more conservation than traditional regulation.

Federal policy on spending, tariffs, and immigration influence the labor force and long-term investment in the economy.