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Hoover director Condoleezza Rice says Russia’s invasion is “disastrous for the liberal world order. It’s disastrous for Europe. It’s disastrous for all the values that we hold dear.”
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Hoover fellow Stephen Kotkin, while taking the measure of the calculating Vladimir Putin, notes, “war is always a partial—or full—miscalculation.”
July 15, 2022 via undefined via Hoover Digest Hoover fellow Norman M. Naimark explains how Ukrainian freedom became entangled in Russia’s dream of Eurasian empire. Unfortunately, “there is no Russian empire, to which Putin aspires, without Ukraine.”
July 15, 2022 via undefined via Hoover Digest When Europe made itself dependent on Russian natural gas, it fueled Putin’s aggression and made itself vulnerable. New sources of energy, especially from the United States, can fix that. Co-author: Kenneth C. Griffin
July 15, 2022 via undefined via Hoover Digest In holding out future NATO membership to Ukraine, the West ignored the danger of angering Russia, says Hoover fellow Robert Service.
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Modern history teems with irredentism—a bloody march of messiahs and autocrats trying to “reclaim” lost lands. Where will Putin’s forces halt?
July 15, 2022 via undefined via Hoover Digest Deterrence is not just the ability to fight; it’s the will to fight. By announcing that the United States possessed no such will for Ukraine, the White House told Putin all he needed to know: he would not be deterred.
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Permanent world order is an illusion. Seasons of violence always return, and the United States must learn to endure and manage them.
July 15, 2022 via undefined via Hoover Digest How Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko sacrificed his nation—and his people—to Russian ambitions.
July 15, 2022 via undefined via Hoover Digest The Russian invasion of Ukraine threatens to create a power vacuum in the Mideast—which means we need a new network of regional allies.
July 15, 2022 via undefined via Hoover Digest China and Russia have formed an alliance of disruption. Both culture wars and shooting wars play into their hands.
July 15, 2022 via undefined via Hoover Digest Washington has played a long diplomatic game—unofficial ties, “strategic ambiguity”—with the Republic of China. If China tries to take Taiwan by force, it’s game over.
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Vladimir Putin just gave Berlin a wake-up call. But how long will Germany stay awake?
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“Modern monetary theory” holds that a profligate government can always just print more money. Is there a more reckless belief?
July 15, 2022 via undefined via Hoover Digest For decades, patronizing laws and government inertia have held Native Americans hostage. It’s time the tribes were free to prosper on their own terms.
July 15, 2022 via undefined via Hoover Digest Between the recklessness of throwing open the borders and the shortsightedness of slamming them shut, there remains a reasonable middle way.
July 15, 2022 via undefined via Hoover Digest Vladimir Putin specializes in turning refugees into pawns. Amid the mass migration from Ukraine, Europe must learn how to handle the push and pull of conflict.
July 15, 2022 via undefined via Hoover Digest A new poll looks at the Americans who say they’re considering leaving the country for good. (They probably won’t.)
July 15, 2022 via undefined via Hoover Digest Among the things Hoover fellows David Brady and Douglas Rivers learned in their latest poll: Americans are feeling better about the police but worse about each other, and political divisions still run hot.
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Doomsday keeps getting postponed. Why? Because human ingenuity, unlike human speculation, doesn’t fail.
July 15, 2022 via undefined via Hoover Digest Why was the United States so eager to publicize secret intelligence as Russia prepared to attack Ukraine? Because cyberspace is a battlefront, and data a weapon.
July 15, 2022 via undefined via Hoover Digest Cyberwarriors braced for big, showy attacks that have never come, at least so far. But a quiet subversion of markets and governments has caused plenty of damage.
July 15, 2022 via undefined via Hoover Digest Urban charter schools present a vivid success story, and not just for their students. In communities with good charter schools, all students benefit.
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The “California Way.” The phrase once suggested innovation and efficiency. On the lips of Governor Gavin Newsom, the words ring hollow.
July 15, 2022 via undefined via Hoover Digest Higher taxes are driving Californians out of the state—especially the big earners on whom the state coffers depend. Don’t believe it? Here’s the evidence.
July 15, 2022 via undefined via Hoover Digest Hoover fellow John B. Taylor on surging inflation: “They’re coming around to the idea that this has to be taken care of.”
July 15, 2022 via undefined via Hoover Digest Individual liberty, however chaotic and loud, is the root of all civic freedoms. Conservatives need to remember that.
July 15, 2022 via undefined via Hoover Digest Violence in Eastern Europe again mocks the high-flown, unworkable dream of the Versailles Treaty: firm borders in a lasting “world order,” and a world forever at peace.
July 15, 2022 via undefined via Hoover Digest Ukraine’s struggle is a powerful reminder that history, and how we teach it, transcends facts and figures. What the war has in common with our own founding.
July 15, 2022 via undefined via Hoover Digest Ukraine, a nation in its own right, remained for centuries under Russian domination. When Herbert Hoover’s famine relief workers arrived in the fledgling Soviet republic of Ukraine a century ago, they were drawn into the tensions created by a nascent Ukrainian nationalism.
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"Now he belongs to the ages.” Secretary of War Edwin Stanton’s words at Abraham Lincoln’s deathbed are also true of the Lincoln Memorial, the Doric temple in Washington where a sculpture of the president sits in eternal contemplation. The monument, visited by millions every year, was dedicated a hundred years ago on Memorial Day weekend. The 1955 poster featured on this Hoover Digest cover communicates, as does the memorial itself, both the power of Lincoln’s ideas and an undercurrent of humanity.
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Download the Issue as a PDF“We Can’t Let Ukraine Lose”
On the Cover
Present at the Creation
A Country Finds Itself
Badlands
The Spirit of Liberty
“We’ve Never Seen It This Bad”
The Price Isn’t Right
Left Coasting
Yes, Charters Raise the Bar
Trust Is the First Casualty
Spy vs. Spy
Renewable Optimism
The Polarizing Express
Should I Stay or Should I Go?
Humanizing Migrants
A Rational Immigration Policy
Renewing Indigenous Economies
Feeding the Fires of Inflation
Ostpolitik Meets West
Would We Really Defend Taiwan?
Axis of Troublemakers
No Time to Stand Alone
Ukraine’s Bad Neighbor
A Time for Peace, a Time for War
Deterrence: An Art of War
Lands of the Lost
Bear Baiting
Once Burned
“Democracy Is Threatening”
The Strongman Got It Wrong