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• Select Tomorrow's Arms Race: The fundamental contest between Beijing and its nuclear rivals is not just about ships, missiles, and warheads but about technology itself.

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  Tomorrow's Arms Race: The fundamental contest between Beijing and its nuclear rivals is not just about ships, missiles, and warheads but about technology itself.

  Author:Rose GottemoellerFrom:Hoover Digest (Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Wntr 2022988 words Article 1170LPresident Biden is reviewing America's nuclear posture, and soon we should know what he thinks about US nuclear weapons, what policies should govern them, and how many we need. Congress is watching closely, and the...
• Select Jihadi vs. Jihadi: And now, the power struggle.

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  Jihadi vs. Jihadi: And now, the power struggle.

  Author:Cole BunzelFrom:Hoover Digest (Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Wntr 20222,641 words Article 1450LThe Taliban's rapid takeover of Afghanistan last summer raised fears that the country would once again become a safe haven for Islamist militants intent on international terrorism. In light of the Taliban's history of...
• Select Daring to Undeceive: The end of the British empire represents only too telling a parallel for post-Afghanistan America.

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  Daring to Undeceive: The end of the British empire represents only too telling a parallel for post-Afghanistan America.

  Author:Niall FergusonFrom:Hoover Digest (Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Wntr 20223,159 words Article 1350L"The multitudes remained plunged in ignorance . . . and their leaders, seeking their votes, did not dare to undeceive them." So wrote Winston Churchill of the victors of the First World War in The Gathering Storm. He...
• Select Fanfare for the "Uncommon" Man: Celebrating a quarter-century of Hoover's longrunning video series, Uncommon Knowledge with Peter Robinson.

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  Fanfare for the "Uncommon" Man: Celebrating a quarter-century of Hoover's longrunning video series, Uncommon Knowledge with Peter Robinson.

  Author:Guy DentonFrom:Hoover Digest (Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Wntr 20223,004 words Article 1070LWhen the first episode of Uncommon Knowledge aired via PBS on May 18, 1996, those involved in its creation never once considered that the program would become conservatism's most consequential vehicle for in-depth...
• Select A Convenient Untruth: Why does China's COVID-19 slander against the United States sound familiar? Because bogus tales of American "biowarfare" surfaced before, during the Korean War, and lingered for decades.

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  A Convenient Untruth: Why does China's COVID-19 slander against the United States sound familiar? Because bogus tales of American "biowarfare" surfaced before, during the Korean War, and lingered for decades.

  Author:Miles Maochun YuFrom:Hoover Digest (Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Wntr 20221,665 words Article 1320LLast May, the White House ordered American intelligence agencies to deliver a report on COVID-19's origins within ninety days. When the inconclusive findings came out, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) responded by...
• Select What About Africa? The Afghanistan pullout doesn't mean the United States can now ignore other regions, especially Africa. If anything, US attention to the Sahel should intensify.

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  What About Africa? The Afghanistan pullout doesn't mean the United States can now ignore other regions, especially Africa. If anything, US attention to the Sahel should intensify.

  Author:Russell A. BermanFrom:Hoover Digest (Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Wntr 20221,852 words Article 1440LThe Sahel and the states bordering it are sites of significant jihadist activity that will derive considerable encouragement from the Taliban victory in Afghanistan. Islamism will be on the upswing everywhere. In the...
• Select Threats Never Sleep: We still haven't done enough to prevent another 9/11.

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  Threats Never Sleep: We still haven't done enough to prevent another 9/11.

  Author:Amy B. ZegartFrom:Hoover Digest (Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Wntr 20221,617 words Article 1230LTwenty years ago, Al-Qaeda hijackers carried out the worstever terrorist attack on American soil, killing nearly three thousand innocents, terrifying the nation, and forever changing the course of history--ushering in...
• Select Counting Climate Costs: Climate change is always and everywhere an economic question.

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  Counting Climate Costs: Climate change is always and everywhere an economic question.

  Author:John H. CochraneFrom:Hoover Digest (Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Wntr 20223,563 words Article 1140LClimate policy is ultimately an economic question. How much does climate change hurt? How much do various policy ideas actually help, and what do they cost? You don't have to argue with a single line of the IPCC...
• Select How Do We Know? Jonathan Rauch, author of The Constitution of Knowledge, traces the convoluted road to facts that humans must follow through error, raw information, and opinion. The online world only adds new twists.

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  How Do We Know? Jonathan Rauch, author of The Constitution of Knowledge, traces the convoluted road to facts that humans must follow through error, raw information, and opinion. The online world only adds new twists.

  Author:Russ RobertsFrom:Hoover Digest (Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Wntr 20223,756 words Interview 950LRuss Roberts, EconTalk: My guest is journalist and author Jonathan Rauch. His latest book is The Constitution of Knowledge, a deep look at how we know what we know--or at least what we think we know--how that's been...
• Select The Losses of Lockdown: New Hoover fellow Tyler Goodspeed, a former White House economic adviser, on the Trump economy before COVID--and why it proved a boon for the American taxpayer, worker, and investor.

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  The Losses of Lockdown: New Hoover fellow Tyler Goodspeed, a former White House economic adviser, on the Trump economy before COVID--and why it proved a boon for the American taxpayer, worker, and investor.

  Author:Peter RobinsonFrom:Hoover Digest (Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Wntr 20222,262 words Interview 1220LPeter Robinson, Uncommon Knowledge: What did the Trump administration truly accomplish? And what does the Biden administration think it's doing? Tyler Goodspeed served on the Trump administration's Council of Economic...
• Select "This Is a Sputnik Moment" Hoover fellow Amy B. Zegart has built her career analyzing the big threats. Today's biggest, she says, is China.

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  "This Is a Sputnik Moment" Hoover fellow Amy B. Zegart has built her career analyzing the big threats. Today's biggest, she says, is China.

  Author:Peter RobinsonFrom:Hoover Digest (Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Wntr 20223,221 words Interview 1020LPeter Robinson, Uncommon Knowledge: A fellow at the Hoover Institution and a professor of political science at Stanford University, Amy Zegart is an expert on intelligence, cybersecurity and Big Tech. She served on...
• Select To Be Jewish in America: Anti-Semitism in the United States may appear to be on the rise, but the centuries during which Jews found increasing acceptance suggest that their place in American life remains secure.

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  To Be Jewish in America: Anti-Semitism in the United States may appear to be on the rise, but the centuries during which Jews found increasing acceptance suggest that their place in American life remains secure.

  Author:Josef JoffeFrom:Hoover Digest (Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Wntr 20222,901 words Article 1030LIs the Jewish American love affair over? This is the question American Jews are nervously asking--even sober souls not given to hysteria. The evidence is piling up: murder from Pittsburgh to Jersey City, Jews assaulted...
• Select A Simple Fix: High-priced employer-provided health plans inflate costs and divert a vast amount of potential tax revenue. We should tax them.

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  A Simple Fix: High-priced employer-provided health plans inflate costs and divert a vast amount of potential tax revenue. We should tax them.

  Author:Daniel P. KesslerFrom:Hoover Digest (Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Wntr 20221,087 words Article 1270LPrices for health services in the United States are high relative to the rest of the world. For example, a simple MRI scan that costs $1,430 in the United States costs around $450 in the United Kingdom, $750 in New...
• Select "Power and Principle": A Coda: Condoleezza Rice, Jim Mattis, John B. Taylor, and Karen Hughes reflect on 9/11 and twenty tumultuous years.

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  "Power and Principle": A Coda: Condoleezza Rice, Jim Mattis, John B. Taylor, and Karen Hughes reflect on 9/11 and twenty tumultuous years.

  From:Hoover Digest (Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Wntr 20221,807 words Discussion 910LIn this round-table discussion hosted by Hoover fellow Peter Robinson, Director Condoleezza Rice joins senior fellows John B. Taylor and Jim Mattis and former Bush White House official Karen Hughes to discuss the memory...
• Select Texas or Bust: Even tech giants are among the many businesses fleeing California for a better, more affordable life.

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  Texas or Bust: Even tech giants are among the many businesses fleeing California for a better, more affordable life.

  Authors:Lee E. Ohanian and Joseph VranichFrom:Hoover Digest (Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Wntr 20221,207 words Article 1390LAlign Technology is a $2.47 billion business revolutionizing orthodontics. Darvis is an artificial-intelligence firm creating safer and more efficient hospitals. Moov is the first interactive platform for buying and...
• Select Of Course, Incentives Matter: Playing politics, certain economists have engaged in a bizarre rejection of incentives, one of the most basic tools of economics.

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  Of Course, Incentives Matter: Playing politics, certain economists have engaged in a bizarre rejection of incentives, one of the most basic tools of economics.

  Author:Kevin A. HassettFrom:Hoover Digest (Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Wntr 20221,179 words Article 1240LIn the 1980s, the inventive rock band Devo put forward the theory that mankind was experiencing de-evolution--that by destroying the planet, we were on a path to take the earth back to its roots. The subsequent decades...
• Select Newsom's New Year: After his triumph in last fall's recall election, California's governor is again confidently woke.

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  Newsom's New Year: After his triumph in last fall's recall election, California's governor is again confidently woke.

  Author:Bill WhalenFrom:Hoover Digest (Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Wntr 20221,093 words Article 1390LOne way to understand the ebb and flow of politics in Sacramento is by dividing the year into quarters. The first quarter: early in January, California's governor unveils a budget proposal (the budget in place at the...
• Select Crossing to Safety: The Hoover Institution organized a broad, international effort to help Afghan allies escape Taliban rule and find new homes.

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  Crossing to Safety: The Hoover Institution organized a broad, international effort to help Afghan allies escape Taliban rule and find new homes.

  Author:Jonathan MovroydisFrom:Hoover Digest (Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Wntr 20222,520 words Article 1350LAfter the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan in August, Hoover fellow H. R. McMaster and his chief of staff, Chelsea Berkey, organized a group of fourteen students who made up the beginnings of the Hoover Afghanistan...
• Select The Best Defense... State-sponsored cybercrime costs billions and endangers national security. When will President Biden finally do something about it?

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  The Best Defense... State-sponsored cybercrime costs billions and endangers national security. When will President Biden finally do something about it?

  Authors:John Yoo and Ivana StradnerFrom:Hoover Digest (Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Wntr 2022835 words Article 1260LAfter the United States' humiliating Afghanistan retreat, America's rivals will amplify their assaults on our credibility and defenses. China could attack Taiwan; Russia might further encroach on Ukraine; Iran or North...
• Select A Bumpy Road to the Free Market: Chiang Ching-kuo is often remembered, approvingly, for steering Taiwan toward a hightech future. But his diaries also show how his stubborn faith in central planning held Taiwan back from prosperity.

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  A Bumpy Road to the Free Market: Chiang Ching-kuo is often remembered, approvingly, for steering Taiwan toward a hightech future. But his diaries also show how his stubborn faith in central planning held Taiwan back from prosperity.

  Author:Hsiao-ting LinFrom:Hoover Digest (Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Wntr 20223,853 words Article 1330LHalf a century ago, in May 1972, Chiang Ching-kuo was inaugurated as Taiwan's premier, replacing his aging father, Chiang Kai-shek, as the de facto ruler of the island state. On his watch, Taiwan succeeded in creating an...