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The following episode was recorded on December 10, 2024.
An adventurous year in California politics and policy ends with a special legislative session to âTrump-proofâ the Golden State. Will a pair of would-be reformers â a newly elected mayor of San Francisco and a Los Angeles district attorney, both of whom ran against the status quo, be able to deliver the goods? Hoover senior fellow Lee Ohanian and distinguished policy fellow Bill Whalen, both contributors to Hooverâs California on Your Mind web channel, join Hoover senior product manager Jonathan Movroydis to reflect on 2024âs lessons as well as this yearâs winners and losers, plus causes for California-based optimism come January 2025.
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Do high-school students â including those fortunate to attend Americaâs most prestigious universities â enter college with a solid understanding of American civics (i.e., the republicâs origin and design) or is it more a case of remedial learning? In this installment of Renewing Civics Education â Preparing for American Citizenship, Paul Peterson, a Hoover Institution senior fellow and Harvard University professor, reflects on his experiences teaching an introductory government course and offers thoughts on education reform â school choice, standardized testing â with Volker Senior Fellow (adjunct) âCheckerâ Finn, one of the nationâs preeminent authorities on education policy and innovation.
Recorded on January 9, 2025.
ABOUT THE SERIES
Educators across the land are preparing for Civic Learning Week in mid-Marchâwith the capstone National Forum at the Hoover Institution on March 13âas the nation also gets ready for next yearâs 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. In anticipation of bothâand recognizing the urgent need to rekindle civic literacy via our schools and collegesâRenewing Civics Education â Preparing for American Citizenship, a five-part podcast series, takes on the challenges of citizenship education: why it matters, what it needs to do differently, what shortcomings it must overcome. The series features distinguished members of Hooverâs Working Group on Good American Citizenship, led by Volker Senior Fellow Chester Finn.
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A new survey released by the Hoover Institution â part of Hooverâs Huntington Program on Strengthening US-India Relations â offers a window into a handful of challenges facing the worldâs fifth-largest economy and emerging world power. Sumit Ganguly, the inaugural director of the Huntington Program, joins Hoover research fellow Dinsha Mistree in a wide-ranging conservation about India including the timing of Prime Minister Narendra Modiâs White House visit (can he avoid a tariff war?), an Indian foreign policy thatâs long on partnerships but short on alliances, Indiaâs role in a growing AI industry, plus what the future holds for the worldâs-largest population whose demographics are changing as well as its tastes in work, leisure, and family planning.
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The Hoover Institution is launching a new limited podcast series featuring experts grappling with how to reinvigorate civics education across America.
Renewing Civics Education: Preparing for American Citizenship is a five-part podcast series that will feature a range of experts on aspects of civics, such as civics instruction, the role of the media in fostering an understanding of civics, and how civics programs in higher education can resist any forms of indoctrination.
The series premieres on Tuesday, February 11, with an episode featuring Distinguished Visiting Fellow Bill Whalen interviewing Senior Fellow Chester E. (Checker) Finn Jr., a national renowned scholar on education policy who leads Hooverâs Working Group on Good American Citizenship. Whalen and Finn will discuss the efforts by Finn and his working group colleagues to reinvigorate civics education across the Kâ12 and college landscapes.
Subsequent episodes will be hosted by Finn and released weekly in the lead-up to Civic Learning Week, which begins March 10 and culminates at the Hoover Institution on March 13, when the Center on Revitalizing American Institutions will cohost a one-day conference on civics education.
The episodes, which will run as part of the Matters of Policy & Politics podcast, are developed in response to the urgent need to rekindle civics literacy via our schools and colleges. This five-part series takes on the challenges of citizenship education: why it matters, what it needs to do differently, and what shortcomings it must overcome.
Programming will include the following:
A conversation between Bill Whalen and Checker Finn examines how US educators can improve civics instruction at the Kâ12 and collegiate levels.Focusing on civics at the Kâ12 level, Finn speaks with Senior Fellow Paul E. Peterson about his experiences teaching an introductory government course and his thoughts on related topics including education reform, school choice, and standardized testing.Examining the difference between instilling American patriotism and indoctrination, Senior Fellow Peter Berkowitz joins Finn to talk about the reforms he believes are necessary elements of civics education, not just in college but also in high school.What do best practices of civics instruction at the undergraduate level look like? Senior Fellow Josiah Ober, who leads the Stanford Civics Initiative and co-leads the new Alliance for Civics in the Academy, joins Finn to talk about his roadmap for improving civics instruction.Contending with the decline of trust in news media and its impact on civic knowledge and participation, Nick Mastronardi, a Hoover Institution veteran fellow and software innovator in the field of public-sector communications, discusses advances in data collection and artificial intelligence and how they can positively affect government behavior and civic interaction.The programming will also draw on the Good American Citizenship Working Groupâs existing projects, which assess the state of civics instruction across US schools and how it has evolved over time.
Episodes will be available on YouTube and many other podcast distributors.
For coverage opportunities, contact Jeffrey Marschner, 202-760-3187, [email protected].
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Los Angelesâs devastating wildfires have prompted a series of troubling questions, ranging from the city and countyâs reported lack of preparedness and apparently outdated water infrastructure to the crisis-management skills of state and local leaders. And are those same leaders capable of rebuilding both swiftly and in a commonsense manner, as opposed to years of regulatory gridlock?
Hoover senior fellow Lee Ohanian and distinguished policy fellow Bill Whalen, both contributors to Hooverâs California on Your Mind web channel, join Hoover senior product manager Jonathan Movroydis to reflect on lessons learned from the wildfires, the impact on various political fortunes, plus can a Los Angeles already under pressure to present a more idealized version of itself in advance of the 2028 Summer Olympics â i.e., fewer homeless encampments, flowing traffic â remind the world that California is still capable of accomplishing great engineering tasks (unlike, say, the stateâs failed experiment with high-speed rail)?
Recorded on January 30, 2025.
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And so the great American election crisis that was destined to be, didnât happen â the end-result stirring relatively little in the way of legal challenges or disruption of the constitutional process, with the public feeling better about the democratic process (or so the post-election polls suggest).
In this, the last of four installments on election integrity in the 2024 campaign cycle, Ben Ginsberg, the Hoover Institutionâs Volker Distinguished Visiting Fellow and a preeminent authority on election law, joins Hoover distinguished policy fellow Bill Whalen to discuss whether Americaâs crazy quilt of election systems and safeguards was formidable or merely fortunate in 2024, what laws a Republican Congress might pursue (voter ID?), plus future Hoover endeavors to help craft better ways of holding elections in America.
Recorded on December 11th, 2024.
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Among the surprise results in this yearâs American election: a victorious Donald Trump improving his numbers among Latino voters to a level not seen in 20 years and George W. Bushâs re-election (the only other time this century that the Republican choice won the popular vote). David Leal, a Hoover Institution adjunct senior fellow and University of Texas-Austin professor of government specializing in American demographic changes, discusses why Latino voters turned Trumpâs way, how 2024âs inroad impacts the idea of demography as destiny ( i.e., a growing minority population working to the Democratsâ advantage), plus Texas returning to its redder self despite talk of newcomers from other states making the Lone Star State more competitive.
Recorded on November 20, 2024.
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The verdict on Californiaâs November election? Americaâs largest âblueâ state emerged black-and-blue as voters sent bruising, non-progressive messages regarding public safety, wage increases, and future approval of local bonds. Hoover senior fellow Lee Ohanian and distinguished policy fellow Bill Whalen, both contributors to Hooverâs California on Your Mind web channel, join Hoover senior product manager Jonathan Movroydis to discuss the latest in the Golden State, including the political futures of vice president Kamala Harris and governor Gavin Newson (does she want his job?). They also discuss a special legislative session to âTrump-proofâ the Golden State, plus the remote likelihood of Sacramento and Washington cooperating on changes to federal immigration policy.
Recorded on November 20, 2024.
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By most metrics â a 16% job-approval rating, failing to deliver budgets much less conducting itself in a stately manner â the U.S. House of Representatives isnât living up to the Founding Fathersâ ideals. How to restore the publicâs confidence in the ways of Capitol Hill? Brandice Canes-Wrone, the Hoover Institutionâs Maurice R. Greenberg senior fellow and the founding director of Hooverâs Center for Revitalizing American Institutions, joins former Illinois congressman and Hoover distinguished fellow Daniel Lipinski to discuss Revitalizing the House: Bipartisan Recommendations on Rules and Process â suggested ways to re-empower House members and committees and restore some semblance of the democratic process.
Recorded on November 12, 2024.
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And so the great election meltdown that was supposed to happen didnât â across America this week, tens of millions of voters going about their business in a seemingly orderly fashion, with a decisive outcome favoring one presidential candidate and his party.
In this, the third of a four-part series on election integrity, Ben Ginsberg, the Hoover Institutionâs Volker Distinguished Visiting Fellow and a preeminent authority on election law, joins Hoover distinguished policy fellow Bill Whalen to discuss how voting played out on Election Day in America â results that surprised Ben, how different systems and vote-counting processes held up in battleground states, plus what election reforms a new Congress might want to pursue in 2025 (translation: requiring identification, greater uniformity and addressing non-citizen voting).
Recorded on November 7, 2024
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What to expect in a California election that shows some prominent big-city incumbents in trouble and an anti-crime ballot measure steamrolling to victory?
As Election Day approaches, Hoover senior fellow Lee Ohanian and distinguished policy fellow Bill Whalen, both contributors to Hooverâs California on Your Mind web channel, join Hoover senior product manager Jonathan Movroydis to discuss the latest in the Golden State including the spectacle of government-envisioned âtiny housesâ with not-so-tiny costs. They also discuss what a non-endorsement in the presidential race says about the troubled state of the stateâs once-mightiest newspaper, and how Governor Gavin Newsom can move forward in 2025, depending on who becomes Americaâs 47th president.
Recorded on October 31, 2024.
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Justin Grimmer, a Hoover Institution senior fellow and Stanford University political scientist, joins Ben Ginsberg, the Hoover Institutionâs Volker Distinguished Visiting Fellow and a preeminent authority on election law, to discuss what the formerâs visit to Coos County, Oregon, revealed about trust in the election process and the challenges involved in debunking election-integrity myths. Their suggestions for curbing skepticism: losing candidates admitting defeat, encouraging the public to look âunder the hoodâ at how elections are administered, and encouraging early voting to minimize dramatic vote swings after Election Day. Also discussed: the impact (or lack thereof) of voter-identification laws and reduced early-voting windows on turnout this fall.
Recorded on October 28, 2024
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Wednesday, October 16, 2024 - 56 min listenHoover Institution | Stanford University
Like a storm headed to Americaâs shores, the November forecast calls for the sound and fury of a contentious election that challenges the publicâs trust in democracy. Ben Ginsberg, the Hoover Institutionâs Volker Distinguished Visiting Fellow is a preeminent authority on election law. Ginsberg revives his Saints, Sinners And Salvageables podcast series from two years ago with this kickoff installment examining whether battleground states are better prepared this election cycle than in recent election cycles, plus Ginsberg explores possible legal challenges that might happen before, during, and after the vote-count.
Recorded on October 14, 2024.
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Why did the âbest and brightestâ of the Kennedy and Johnson administrations continue with a flawed Vietnam strategy despite years of wargaming simulations warning that there were no good outcomes for American involvement? Jacquelyn Schneider, the Hoover Institutionâs Hargrove Hoover Fellow and director of Hooverâs Wargaming and Crisis Simulation Initiative, discusses the role of the 1960âs âSIGMA Gamesâ in deciding Southeast Asia options, how wargaming influenced America Cold War strategy, its use in making sense of present-day enigmas (China, Russia), plus the challenges in playing out scenarios in the âfinal frontierâ that is outer space.
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Who are the winners and losers now that California Governor Gavin Newsom has signed off on hundreds of legislative bills? Hoover senior fellow Lee Ohanian and distinguished policy fellow Bill Whalen, both contributors to Hooverâs California on Your Mind web channel, join Hoover senior product manager Jonathan Movroydis to discuss why the past month in Sacramento was good news for teen-abuse victim Paris Hilton (Newsom signed a bill she championed) and Los Angeles Clipperâs owner Steve Ballmer (his new arena received a late-night alcohol exception); and bad news for Elon Musk (he didnât get his way on a controversial AI measure as his social-media feud with the governor continues). Possibly the worst news is for Californians fond of direct democracy and election integrity (Newsom vetoed a voter ID requirement). Then, the legislature approved a constitutional amendment altering Californiaâs recall process which voters will decide on in 2026.
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Is the current presidential election lining up along the same lines as the past two Trump referenda with a small number of swing states and an even smaller subset of issues (in 2024: jobs, inflation, immigration, and wars) deciding who will become Americaâs 47th president?
David Brady and Douglas Rivers, Hoover Institution senior fellows and managers of a tracking poll on the US electorate, discuss whatâs different in a contest featuring known (Donald Trump) and lesser known (Kamala Harris) entities, what matters most to independent voters, the odds of one or both chambers of Congress flipping, plus whether Pennsylvania is the ânew Floridaâ as ground zero for deciding presidential outcomes.
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Since the founding of the republic, Americaâs leaders have pondered the question of federalism and the proper divide between national and local government regarding such thorny matters as infrastructure, healthcare financing, and education. Michael Boskin, the Hoover Institutionâs Wohlford Family Senior Fellow and former chair of the White Houseâs Council of Economic Advisers, discusses American Federalism Today: Perspectives on Political and Economic Governance, a newly released book he edited based on the findings from a November 2023 Hoover conference on federalism. Boskin explains the urgent need for policy reforms (government waste in particular), plus what makes for effective government commissions (Boskin chaired a federal commission on the Consumer Price Index in the mid-1990âs).
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The Democratic National Convention turns out to be a tale of two Californians â Vice President Kamala Harris becoming her partyâs standard-bearer; Governor Gavin Newsom left out of the speakersâ lineup (other than a two-minute cameo during the roll-call vote).
Hoover senior fellow Lee Ohanian and distinguished policy fellow Bill Whalen, both contributors to Hooverâs California on Your Mind web channel, join Hoover senior product manager Jonathan Movroydis to discuss in the Golden State including Harris and Newsomâs reversals of fortune, the Golden Stateâs struggles with job-retention, plus whether a Harris presidency can succeed where a Newsom governorship seems destined to fail (she wants to build three million new homes nationally in her first term; Newsom is far behind on his downsized goal of 2.5 million new California homes by the decadeâs end).
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As Kamala Harris attempts to succeed where fellow Californian Richard Nixon fell short in 1960 â win the White House as a sitting vice president amidst a complicated economy â she takes a page from the Nixon presidency and wades into what government can do about the high cost of goods and services (specifically, food prices). Economist David Henderson, a Hoover Institution fellow and a I Blog to Differ commentator, explains what Nixon attempted a half-century ago and what Harris suggested in her pre-convention economics address. Henderson also explains the difference between price controls and curbing price-gouging plus the economic consequences of the federal government imposing its will on the free market.
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For the past two weeks, after Hezbollah rockets struck a Golan Heights town and Israel forces retaliated with strikes on targets in Beirut and Tehran, the world is bracing for further violence in the Middle East, fearing the conflict will escalate into a regional war. Meanwhile, the Biden Administration presses for a cease-fire agreement in Gaza.
Hoover Institution fellow Cole Bunzel, who studies history and contemporary affairs of the Islamic Middle East, makes sense of Iranâs retaliatory timeline, discusses Israelâs options both militarily and diplomatically, and notes that a lame-duck American president (again) is trying to broker a Middle East peace arrangement amidst an election year; plus the prospects of a âmegaâ deal involving a US-Saudi bilateral treaty, Saudi-Israeli normalization, and possibly a road to Palestinian statehood.
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