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Mark Koyama is a Hoover Institution National Fellow for 2017–2018. He is an associate professor of economics at George Mason University and senior scholar at the Mercatus Center. Professor Koyama received his D.Phil from the University of Oxford in 2010. His area of expertise is economic history. In particular, he is interested in the institutional foundations of modern states. He has published numerous articles in economics and economic history. Currently he is completing a book with Noel Johnson entitled The Birth of Religious Freedom: Liberalism, Rule of Law and State Development, 1100–1800, which will be published by Cambridge University Press in 2018.
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Taiwan’s fighting opposition party will this week make a total effort to convince Washington that the Kuomintang, once an American war ally when its former leader Chiang Kai-shek ruled China, remains a viable and credible political force.
As the Russia–Ukraine conflict approaches the 100-day mark, is any kind of resolution in sight? Condoleezza Rice, former US secretary of state and the Hoover Institution’s Tad and Dianne Taube Director, joins Hoover senior fellows Niall Ferguson, H. R. McMaster, and John Cochrane for a conversation encompassing the war in Eastern Europe
Today’s living standards are leaps and bounds higher than those of even the best “good old days.”
Facing a smooth glide through California’s June 7 Democratic primary and almost certain reelection this fall, Gov. Gavin Newsom says he has “sub-zero interest” in running for president in 2024.
America is under siege. Our founding principles are under attack as they have never been before. Not even the Confederates trashed the Constitution or attempted to set up a Ministry of Truth to censor every idea they disagreed with.
Hoover Institution fellow Stephen Kotkin discusses the many risks inherent in investing in China.
The airmen in our unit served in Korea, ready for war but never engaged, while our fellow veterans fought half the world away in Iraq.
Democracies fail when their citizens are unable or unwilling to unite against leaders who break the law to stay in power.
The path to the 2024 presidential election will be shaped entirely by how things look for Donald Trump in the wake of the 2022 midterms.
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