This week on the show, Susan Hennessey joins us again. Shane talks about President Obama's effort to reassure the nation that ISIS is not winning. We discuss Donald Trump's different sort of plan to keep America safe—and whether Trump himself constitutes a threat to national security.
Hoover Institution fellow Victor Davis Hanson discusses Tashfeen Malik’s immigration to the US and how the US decides to balance security and immigration amid fears of attacks like San Bernadino.
Hoover Institution fellow Victor Davis Hanson discusses the decline of his native California and the increasing distance between the Democrat and Republican elites and average, middle-class Americans.
Hoover Institution fellow Kori Schake discusses the hype around national security threats and the way we define terrorism — and whether it makes a difference if it happens inside or outside the United States.
Hoover Institution fellow Larry Diamond discusses President Obama's address Sunday night concerning the San Bernardino shooting and the steps the government is taking to address terrorist threats against the country.
If you have 250 million tons of food to give away every year to local food banks how should you do it? Canice Prendergast of the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about how he and a team of economists created an artificial currency and a daily auction for the national food bank Feeding America so that local food banks could bid on the types of food that were the most valuable to them.
