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Back to Search2024 in Review: Standards and Norms with the WSJ’s Kimberley Strassel | GoodFellows | Hoover Institution
Episode 144
An eventful election year concludes with the curtain soon to rise on a second Trump presidency and the possibility of dramatic changes to how Washington conducts itself.
Kimberley Strassel, the Wall…
Published on 9 months ago
The Mailbag Show: The GoodFellows Answer Your Questions
Episode 143
In a special “mailbag” episode, Hoover senior fellows Sir Niall Ferguson, John Cochrane, and H.R. McMaster answer audience questions ranging from current geopolitics quandaries and viable economic mo…
Published on 9 months, 2 weeks ago
Focus on the Mission, with Mike Pompeo | GoodFellows | Hoover Institution
Episode 142
After a “change” election that returned Donald Trump to the presidency, what can Americans expect in the way of foreign policy and national security departures from the current administration?
Former…
Published on 9 months, 4 weeks ago
The Comeback: The NYT’s Bret Stephens and the GoodFellows Recap the ’24 Election | GoodFellows | Hoover Institution
Episode 141
Donald Trump will return to the Oval Office in a manner few saw coming – he won America’s popular vote; his coattails may lead to Republican control of Congress – while progressive institutions (lega…
Published on 10 months, 1 week ago
Butterfly Wings & Hurricanes: The GoodFellows & Andrew Roberts Revisit Historical Counterfactuals | GoodFellows | Hoover Institution
Episode 139
Imagine an alternate universe in which the American Revolution fails or where Russia rejects Leninism in its infant stage.
Live from the Hoover Institution’s Fall Retreat, Lord Andrew Roberts, renown…
Published on 10 months, 2 weeks ago
Hope for Peace, Prepare for War, with Walter Russell Mead | GoodFellows | Hoover Institution
Episode 140
Why has Israel repeatedly disregarded and gone the opposite way from the White House’s entreaties regarding the Middle East? And does the West fully fathom that Ukraine is losing its war of attrition…
Published on 10 months, 3 weeks ago
OK Boomers: Victor Davis Hanson, Pagers, Zelenskyy, and the Fellows “Talkin’ ‘Bout Their Generation” | GoodFellows | Hoover Institution
Episode 138
Hot-wiring pagers and walkie-talkies to take out Hezbollah operatives: Was Israel’s tactic—like something from an Ian Fleming novel—a justifiable act of national security or a violation of internatio…
Published on 11 months, 3 weeks ago
Cruel Summer: McMaster’s Tour of Duty, the Debate, TSwift, and Yes, Churchill Was a Good Guy | GoodFellows | Hoover Institution
Episode 137
What was it like to navigate America’s national security apparatus all the while coping with a mercurial commander-in-chief? Hoover senior fellow H.R. McMaster tells all in his new best-seller At War…
Published on 1 year ago
So It Goes: Niall Ferguson on Good Books, Bad Screens, a 1968 Redux, and Hobbits | GoodFellows | Hoover Institution
Episode 136
In a topsy-turvy election year, does America’s 2024 presidential contest summon ghosts from 1968 — or, is a late-breaking 1980-style landslide in the cards? Historian Niall Ferguson, the Hoover Insti…
Published on 1 year ago
Gettin’ Grumpy with It: John Cochrane on the Fed, Tariffs, and Why Dogs Rule | GoodFellows | Hoover Institution
Episode 135
John Cochrane, the Hoover Institution’s Rose-Marie and Jack Anderson Senior Fellow and the author of The Fiscal Theory of Price Level (2023), discusses misconceptions around how the Federal Reserve g…
Published on 1 year, 1 month ago