Hoover Virtual Policy Briefings

David Brady And Doug Rivers: The 2020 Election: What The Polls Did And Didn’t Get Right | Hoover Virtual Policy Briefing Tuesday, November 17, 2020 Hoover Institution The Hoover Institution presents an online virtual briefing series on pressing policy issues, including health care, the economy, democratic governance, and national security. Briefings will include thoughtful and informed analysis from our top scholars. DAVID BRADY AND DOUG RIVERS: The 2020 Election: What The Polls Did And Didn’t Get Right. ABOUT THE FELLOWS Douglas Rivers is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and a professor of political science at Stanford University. He is also the Chief Scientist at YouGov PLC, a global polling firm. David Brady is the Davies Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Bowen H. and Janice Arthur McCoy Professor of Political Science in the Stanford Graduate School of Business.  He has published seven books and more than a hundred papers in journals and books.  To receive notifications about upcoming briefings, please sign up by clicking here: http://eepurl.com/gXjSSb 

Michael McConnell And John Yoo: The ACB Nomination: Is A 6-3 Court Supremely Conservative? | Hoover Virtual Policy Briefing Thursday, October 22, 2020 Hoover Institution The Hoover Institution presents an online virtual briefing series on pressing policy issues, including health care, the economy, democratic governance, and national security. Briefings will include thoughtful and informed analysis from our top scholars. ABOUT THE FELLOWS Michael McConnell is the Richard and Frances Mallery Professor of Law and the director of the Constitutional Law Center at Stanford Law School, and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. John Yoo is a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution, Emanuel S. Heller Professor of Law at the University of California–Berkeley School of Law, and a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. To receive notifications about upcoming briefings, please sign up by clicking here: http://eepurl.com/gXjSSb 

Perspectives from Germany, China, and Hong Kong Thursday, October 15, 2020 Hoover Institution The Hoover Institution presents an online virtual speaker series based on the scholarly research and commentary written by Hoover fellows participating in the Human Prosperity Project on Socialism and Free-Market Capitalism. This project objectively investigates the historical record to assess the consequences for human welfare, individual liberty, and interactions between nations of various economic systems ranging from pure socialism to free-market capitalism. Each session will include thoughtful and informed analysis from our top scholars. FEATURING Michael Auslin, Ph.D., is the Payson J. Treat Distinguished Research Fellow in Contemporary Asia at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. A historian by training, he specializes in U.S. policy in Asia and geopolitical issues in the Indo-Pacific region. Russell Berman, the Walter A. Haas Professor in the Humanities at Stanford University, is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and a co-chair of the Working Group on Islamism and the International Order. For more information on this initiative, click here - https://www.hoover.org/research-teams/human-prosperity-project-socialism-and-free-market-capitalism To view the upcoming events, click here - https://www.hoover.org/research/human-prosperity-project-socialism-and-free-market-capitalism-speaker-series 

Recorded August 4, 2020, 11AM PST   Andrew Roberts Discusses Leadership In War    The Hoover Institution presents an online virtual briefing series on pressing policy issues, including health care, the economy, democratic governance, and national security. Briefings will include thoughtful and informed analysis from our top scholars.   ABOUT THE FELLOW Andrew Roberts is the Roger and Martha Mertz Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution. He has written or edited nineteen books, which have been translated into 23 languages; his most recent is Leadership in War: Lessons from Those Who Made History. His biography of Winston Churchill, Churchill: Walking with Destiny, spent 9 weeks on the NY Times bestseller list. He appears regularly on radio and television around the world, including when NBC commissioned him to commentate alongside Meredith Viera on the Royal Wedding of Prince William to Kate Middleton, following his well-received broadcasts at the funerals of Diana, Princess of Wales​ and Queen Elizabeth​ the Queen Mother, and the wedding of Prince Charles to the Duchess of Cornwall.   To receive notifications about upcoming briefings, please sign up by clicking here: http://eepurl.com/gXjSSb.

Recorded July 28, 2020, 11AM PST   Amy Zegart Discusses Spies, Lies, and Algorithms   The Hoover Institution presents an online virtual briefing series on pressing policy issues, including health care, the economy, democratic governance, and national security. Briefings will include thoughtful and informed analysis from our top scholars.   ABOUT THE FELLOW Amy Zegart is the Davies Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, where she directs the Robert and Marion Oster National Security Affairs Fellows program. She is also a senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute of International Studies (FSI), professor of political science (by courtesy) at Stanford University, and a contributing editor to The Atlantic. From 2013 to 2018, she served as codirector of the Freeman Spogli Institute’s Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) and founder and codirector of the Stanford Cyber Policy Program. She previously served as the chief academic officer of the Hoover Institution.   To receive notifications about upcoming briefings, please sign up by clicking here: http://eepurl.com/gXjSSb.

Recorded July 21, 2020, 11AM PST   George P. Shultz Discusses Learning From Experience   The Hoover Institution presents an online virtual briefing series on pressing policy issues, including health care, the economy, democratic governance, and national security. Briefings will include thoughtful and informed analysis from our top scholars.   ABOUT THE FELLOW George Pratt Shultz has had a distinguished career in government, in academia, and in the world of business. He is one of two individuals who have held four different federal cabinet posts; he has taught at three of this country’s great universities; and for eight years he was president of a major engineering and construction company.   To receive notifications about upcoming briefings, please sign up by clicking here: http://eepurl.com/gXjSSb.

Recorded July 14, 2020, 11AM PST Bjorn Lomborg Discusses False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts The Poor, And Fails To Fix The Planet. The Hoover Institution presents an online virtual briefing series on pressing policy issues, including health care, the economy, democratic governance, and national security. Briefings will include thoughtful and informed analysis from our top scholars. ABOUT THE FELLOW Bjorn Lomborg is a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution. Dr. Bjorn Lomborg is president of the Copenhagen Consensus Center and visiting professor at Copenhagen Business School. His numerous books include The Skeptical Environmentalist, Cool It, How to Spend $75 Billion to Make the World a Better Place, The Nobel Laureates’ Guide to the Smartest Targets for the World: 2016–2030, and Prioritizing Development: A Cost Benefit Analysis of the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals. His new book False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet is forthcoming in July 2020. To receive notifications about upcoming briefings, please sign up by clicking here: http://eepurl.com/gXjSSb.

Recorded July 07, 2020, 11AM PST Shelby Steele Talks About Race In America. The Hoover Institution presents an online virtual briefing series on pressing policy issues, including health care, the economy, democratic governance, and national security. Briefings will include thoughtful and informed analysis from our top scholars. ABOUT THE FELLOW Shelby Steele is the Robert J. and Marion E. Oster Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. He specializes in the study of race relations, multiculturalism, and affirmative action. He was appointed a Hoover fellow in 1994. To receive notifications about upcoming briefings, please sign up by clicking here: http://eepurl.com/gXjSSb.

Recorded June 25, 2020, 11AM PST Stephen Kotkin Discusses China, Russia, And American Freedom. The Hoover Institution presents an online virtual briefing series on pressing policy issues, including health care, the economy, democratic governance, and national security. Briefings will include thoughtful and informed analysis from our top scholars. ABOUT THE FELLOW Stephen Kotkin is a Hoover senior fellow and a Professor of History and International Affairs at Princeton University. In addition to conducting research in the Hoover Library and Archives for three decades, he is also founder of Princeton’s Global History Initiative. Kotkin’s research and publications encompasses geopolitics and authoritarian regimes in history and in the present, and he has also participated in numerous National Intelligence Council events over the years.   To receive notifications about upcoming briefings, please sign up by clicking here: http://eepurl.com/gXjSSb.

Recorded June 23, 2020, 11AM PST Terry Moe Discusses The Future Of Education Reform And Its Politics The Hoover Institution presents an online virtual briefing series on pressing policy issues, including health care, the economy, democratic governance, and national security. Briefings will include thoughtful and informed analysis from our top scholars. ABOUT THE FELLOW Terry M. Moe is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and a professor of political science at Stanford University. Moe has written extensively on the politics and reform of American education, including his most recent book: The Politics of Institutional Reform: Katrina, Education, and the Second Face of Power. In 2005, Moe received the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation Prize for Excellence in Education. To receive notifications about upcoming briefings, please sign up by clicking here: http://eepurl.com/gXjSSb.