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Abbas Milani on Understanding Iran

featuring Abbas Milanivia Hoover Institution
Wednesday, March 23, 2016

Abbas Milani focuses on Iran but paints a more complex picture of a state divided, with movements toward reform and international engagement clashing against authoritarian elements within the government. Stressing understanding a regime as a crucial prerequisite to effective strategy, Milani calls for targeted US policy toward Iran that bolsters movements for change and undermines support for the status quo.

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“There’s a Market for Foolish Things”

by Kyle Petersonvia Hoover Digest
Monday, April 18, 2016

Although he insists that he has devoted much of his long career merely to pointing out the obvious, Hoover fellow Thomas Sowell feels certain he’ll never be out of a job.

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“Reagan’s Soviet Policy As A Guide To Dealing With Iran, North Korea, And Other Rogue Regimes”: A Roundtable Discussion In Memory Of Harry Rowen

Monday, April 11, 2016
Stanford

The nonviolent resolution of the Cold War owed much to the Reagan administration’s work to bring about a peaceful regime change from within the Soviet Union. 

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Fail and Fail Again

by Allan H. Meltzervia Hoover Digest
Monday, April 18, 2016

Like a bad penny, socialism keeps coming back.

George Shultz Birthday
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Learning from Experience: A Symposium Celebrating the Life, Work, and Ninety-Fifth Birthday of George P. Shultz

Thursday, March 31, 2016
Stanford

In December 2015, the Hoover Institution celebrated the ninety-fifth birthday of George P. Shultz, former secretary of state, secretary of labor, and secretary of the Treasury; Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient; and the Thomas W. and Susan B. Ford Distinguished Fellow at the Hoover Institution. 

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Policy Seminar with Lawrence Summers

Friday, March 25, 2016
Room 115, Lou Henry Hoover Building
Lawrence Summers, President Emeritus and Charles W. Eliot University Professor at Harvard University, talked about Secular Stagnation and American Economic Policy.  
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Kevin M. Warsh, a member of the Federal Reserve System’s Board of Governors

Challenging the Groupthink of the Guild

by Kevin Warsh
Tuesday, March 8, 2016

Hoover Institution fellow Kevin Warsh's remarks on March 8, 2016, at the 32nd Annual Economic Policy Conference in Washington DC titled "Challenging the Groupthink of the Guild."

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The Libertarian: “The Future of Free Trade”

interview with Richard A. Epsteinvia Defining Ideas (Hoover Institution)
Tuesday, March 15, 2016

American politics takes a turn towards protectionism.

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A New Tool For Avoiding Big-Bank Failures: ‘Chapter 14’

by Emily C. Kapur, John B. Taylorvia Wall Street Journal
Thursday, March 10, 2016

Bernie Sanders is right, Dodd-Frank doesn’t work, but his solution is wrong. Here’s what would work.

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When The World Is Aflame

featuring Michael McFaul, Condoleezza Ricevia Stanford OpenXChange
Tuesday, March 1, 2016

Hear from top scholars and international affairs experts about the global issues we face today and the need for greater compassion. Learn what role universities may play in a fragmented world and how they may be a way forward in fixing broken systems. 

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