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GoodFellows: Conversations from the Hoover Institution

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In uncertain times what’s needed is not just clarity about today’s pandemic, but insight into the challenges that lie ahead as America recovers and returns to normal. GoodFellows, a weekly Hoover Institution broadcast, features senior fellows John Cochrane, Niall Ferguson, and H.R. McMaster discussing the social, economic, and geostrategic ramifications of this changed world.

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Nearly a century ago, after years of investors on a champagne high and warning signs ignored, a stock market crash led to a descent into a global depression. Andrew Ross Sorkin, a New York Times financial journalist and author of the bestseller 1929:... more

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Two institutional sectors are in both steady and rapid decline in terms of public trust: Congress and academia. Ben Sasse, former US senator from Nebraska and president of two universities, joins GoodFellows regulars Niall Ferguson, John Cochrane, an... more

Is the bitter war in Ukraine soon to wind down now that a peace settlement is being negotiated (think a Panmunjom-style compromise, not Munich-style appeasement), and how should America prepare for economic and military parity with China? In an episo... more

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Will future wars be decided by who controls space—cyber and outer—and which superpower has better paired geostrategic thinking with emerging technologies? Anne Neuberger, the Hoover Institution’s William C. Edwards Distinguished Visiting Fellow and a... more

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Recent Guests

Ben Sasse
former Senator of Nebraska and higher education leader
Episode: Tiny Cars and 70’s Problems with Ben Sasse | GoodFellows | Hoover Institution
Ann Neuberger
Former National Security Advisor for Cyber and Emerging Technology
Hoover Institution, Formerly of the Biden White House
Episode: Cyber Rattling & Socialism: Anne Neuberger on Future Wars, Mayor Mamdani, and a Big Deal at the BBC | GoodFellows | Hoover Institution
Michael McFaul
Author, educator, and former US Ambassador to Russia
Stanford University
Episode: Trick or Treat? A Fight Between Good and Evil with Michael McFaul | GoodFellows | Hoover Institution
Russell Berman
Walter A. Haas Professor at Humanities and Hoover Institution Senior Fellow
Stanford University
Episode: It’s The Economy, Israel and Tariffs, Stupid | GoodFellows | Hoover Institution
Dan Wang
Historian and analyst of China's technology and development, author of 'Breakneck'
Hoover Institution
Episode: Who’s Going To Win The Future? Dan Wang on China’s Engineers vs. America’s Lawyers | GoodFellows | Hoover Institution
H.R. McMaster
Lieutenant General, former Presidential National Security Advisor, and author
Hoover Institution
Episode: The Eternal Optimist: H.R. McMaster on Combat, Faith, and Turning Down the Funk | GoodFellows | Hoover Institution
Katie McMaster
Military spouse and active community member
Episode: The Eternal Optimist: H.R. McMaster on Combat, Faith, and Turning Down the Funk | GoodFellows | Hoover Institution
Condoleezza Rice
Former US Secretary of State, Director of Hoover Institution
Hoover Institution
Episode: Boss Time: Summits, Cold Wars, and Universities, with Condoleezza Rice | GoodFellows | Hoover Institution
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Political activist, author, and former Dutch politician
Episode: Niall Ferguson, Flying Scotsman | GoodFellows

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Bill Whelan
Moderator and distinguished Policy Fellow at the Hoover Institution.

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4.7 out of 5 stars from 1.4k ratings
  • A must listen

    Always great discussion with actual proposals for fixing stuff that isn’t airy fairy.

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    wellgaveitatry
    United States2 months ago
  • Great Dan Wang episode.

    In the long run we are dead and in the short run we are dead 👍 so let’s get on with renewal and modernisation now.

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    CastelloHouse
    United Kingdom3 months ago
  • Articulate and civilized. How refreshing!

    Always an articulate and solidly reasoned discussion. A model for others and very missing from digital media audience driven ranting. It’s good to know ancient traditions of debate are still out there. Socrates would have been a listener!

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    CastelloHouse
    United Kingdom3 months ago
  • China making bikes

    John,

    Respectfully I believe you are wrong on this issue.

    Those millions of bikes sold to the USA are jobs, steel, aluminum, rubber and actual buildings. Those jobs and buildings pay taxes that fund the middle class in small towns that currently in crisis. We have millions of people on drugs and welfare and we need to care for them before feeding the CCP.

    Guardian bikes has proven we can make a quality bike in the USA.

    Stop defending China, they do want to take us down and your open trad... more

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    5
    GGSANE
    United States7 months ago
  • Weak episode

    Even as supporters of the Trump administration, Niall Ferguson and John both, I was amazed at their unwillingness to criticize the administration for a catastrophic first 100 days. You can be supportive of the overall objectives while being clear eyed about the clown show we are witnessing. HR and the moderator need to calll them out. Otherwise this podcast is not with the time.

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    Larry 123
    United States8 months ago

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Viewer Mail: War & Peace, Reading & Writing, Why Babies Are Good, and Thanksgiving Memories | GoodFellows | Hoover Institution
Q: Do you think the phrase, free minds and free markets means political freedom and economic freedom could not exist one without the other?
In the long run, you cannot be prosperous without freedom, both political and economic.
Viewer Mail: War & Peace, Reading & Writing, Why Babies Are Good, and Thanksgiving Memories | GoodFellows | Hoover Institution
Q: Are we looking at a culture change that has perhaps since the 1960s looked down upon the trades and those skilled to work with their hands?
There's an interesting thing that happened in the 1980s. We had the skill premium that people who knew how to work with computers got better salaries than others.
Viewer Mail: War & Peace, Reading & Writing, Why Babies Are Good, and Thanksgiving Memories | GoodFellows | Hoover Institution
Q: Are tanks obsolete?
Hell no, they're not obsolete. You can't solve problems without a tank.
Viewer Mail: War & Peace, Reading & Writing, Why Babies Are Good, and Thanksgiving Memories | GoodFellows | Hoover Institution
Q: Do you have a disciplined schedule of time set aside for the reading of books, articles, papers?
I don't just purport to read a lot. I do read a lot. I read every night without fail.
Viewer Mail: War & Peace, Reading & Writing, Why Babies Are Good, and Thanksgiving Memories | GoodFellows | Hoover Institution
Q: Is the proposed Trump-Putin agreement on Ukraine's fate more like Chamberlain Hitler deciding on Czechoslovakia in 1938 or Stalin Hitler on Poland in 1939?
It's not like either of those things, for very obvious reason, that in 1938, a part of Czechoslovakia was handed over without a fight.

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