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Andrew Roberts examines the extraordinary life of Winston Churchill in Roberts’s new book, Churchill: Walking with Destiny.
January 14, 2019 via undefined via Uncommon Knowledge with Peter Robinson
[Subscription Required] America’s regional allies are relieved to learn that the U.S. isn’t going anywhere—for now.
January 15, 2019 via The Wall Street Journal via Hoover Daily Report
Why America’s progressives flaunt their abusive disdain for Trump voters.
January 16, 2019 via undefined via Defining Ideas
In a piece just up for the Wall Street Journal (paywalled), I argue that President Trump’s pivot to Asia is shaping up to be more substantive and potentially transformative than the one the Obama Administration regularly touted.
January 16, 2019 via The National Review via Hoover Daily Report
Today the Brookings Institution is publishing our edited volume, "Bytes, Bombs, and Spies: The Strategic Dimensions of Offensive Cyber Operations." And here is the first introductory chapter, in which we overview the books and its arguments.
January 15, 2019 via Lawfare via Hoover Daily Report
What is the value of building a barrier between countries? While President Trump is fond of the refrain, “A country without borders is not a country at all,” the reality is more complex.
January 16, 2019 via Balance of Economics via Hoover Daily Report
As he settles in to his new surroundings as California’s fortieth governor, Gavin Newsom will find it hard to escape Ronald Reagan, the last man to serve as both governor of California and president of the United States.
January 8, 2019 via undefined via Eureka
My former colleague at the Naval Postgraduate School Jonathan Lipow posted something on Facebook that I think deserves wider readership. We don’t see eye to eye on everything and we don’t even see eye to eye on what’s in his Facebook post. But he says it well and makes some valid points.
January 15, 2019 via EconLog via Hoover Daily Report
At what level of granularity can we say that diversity has been achieved, or that we are on the cusp of achieving genuine diversity.
January 16, 2019 via Thoughtful Ideas via Hoover Daily Report
Hoover Institution fellow John Taylor discusses the Federal Reserve's rate path, US economic strength, and the partial US government shutdown.
January 15, 2019 via Bloomberg via Hoover Daily Report
Hoover Institution fellow Ed Lazear notes that Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell should be paying close attention to the stock market for clues on whether signs of an economic slowdown warrant a pause in central bank interest rate hikes.
January 15, 2019 via CNBC via Hoover Daily Report
Hoover Institution fellows Herbert Lin and Amy Zegart are interviewed by Hoover Institution fellow Jack Goldsmith, via Security by the Book, concerning their book Bytes, Bombs and Spies: The Strategic Dimensions of Offensive Cyber Capabilities.
January 16, 2019 via undefined via Security by the Book
Hoover Institution fellow Bill Whalen discusses how Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti's presidential candidacy is weighed down by the Los Angeles homeless problem and now the teachers’s strike.
January 15, 2019 via The John Batchelor Show via Hoover Daily Report
Hoover Institution fellow John Yoo discusses whether presidents can keep private conversations with foreign leaders private. Yoo notes that congress should not be able to overcome executive privilege.
January 14, 2019 via Fox News via Hoover Daily Report
As the stock market racked up its worst year in a decade, President Donald Trump wasted no time in lashing out at the Federal Reserve. By raising interest rates, he complained, the Fed was “going crazy.” He called it the “only threat” to economic growth and said he was “not even a little bit happy” with his selection of Jerome Powell as Fed chair.
January 10, 2019 via Stanford Business via Hoover Daily Report
On Tuesday, Hoover Institution scholars addressed China’s recent tightening of policy surrounding Taiwan and considered what the United States’ role should be in maintaining the three-way political balance.
January 16, 2019 via Stanford Daily via Hoover Daily Report
This is the year that U.S. cyber war policy goes on the offensive to protect critical civilian infrastructure against significant threats from Russia, China and other state-backed hacker units, the Trump administration pledges.
January 16, 2019 via EnergyWire via Hoover Daily Report
John Cochrane and Kevin Wilson present opposite views on the likelihood of recession and a market crash.
January 15, 2019 via Seeking Alpha via Hoover Daily Report
In a Friday night news dump, the New York Times revealed the FBI’s surprisingly flimsy justification for launching a retaliatory investigation into President Donald Trump, their chief adversary during their recent troubled era.
January 14, 2019 via The Federalist via Hoover Daily Report
A former Justice Department lawyer told Fox News on Monday that Congress and courts should not be allowed to overcome executive privilege after calls this weekend by high-ranking Democrats to subpoena notes or testimony from the interpreter who was at several meetings between President Trump and Russia’s Vladimir Putin.
January 15, 2019 via Fox News via Hoover Daily Report
Whether Trump’s firing of James Comey threatened national security is a question for Congress, not the FBI.
January 15, 2019 via Bloomberg via Hoover Daily Report
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