David Davenport, a counselor to the director and a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, discusses the genesis of modern conservatism.  Modern American conservatism, Davenport avers, was born in the 1930s, when Herbert Hoover took on the excesses of the New Deal. The New Deal overturned the way in which the United States worked and was governed. Eighty years later the New Deal is still the paradigm for US domestic policy. Obama is adding to the New Deal ideology with many of his policies, which are undermining US liberty and its rugged individualism. In his recent book, The New Deal and Modern American Conservatism: A Defining Rivalry, Davenport goes back to the 1930s to illustrate how the twenty-first-century discourse between progressives and conservatives grew out of the Roosevelt-Hoover debate of the 1930s.

Davenport: The New Deal and Modern American Conservatism: Then and Now

Victor Davis Hanson, the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow, discusses US foreign policy both in history and that of today. He begins with a brief overview of US foreign policy since the Second World War and goes on to discuss how and why the Obama administration has deviated from this general trajectory. Hanson argues that the Obama administration has backed away from its global leadership responsibilities in the name of a reset with the claim that Obama had a better understanding of the Middle East, Vladimir Putin, and other significant global issues. He ends with three possible exegeses for why the Obama administration has deviated from traditional foreign policy.

War Is Finding Obama

Ordinarily, the second-place finisher in a presidential election doesn’t have a second political act. But the times aren’t ordinary and Mitt Romney, the 2012 GOP nominee, is now a US Senate candidate in Utah. Hoover research fellow Lanhee Chen, Romney’s 2012 policy director, discusses what compelled his former boss to make the run and whether Romney will be a Trump White House ally or nemesis.
	
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War Is Finding Obama

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