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Hoover Daily Report | March 6, 2026 · Hoover Daily Report

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  Welcome to the "Hoover Daily Report." Ideas Advancing Freedom.
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  It's Friday, March 6th, Twenty twenty-six.
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  This Friday, Condoleeza Rice lauds the objectives of the American and Israeli
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  campaign to degrade the Iranian regime’s military capabilities; Šumit Ganguly
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  speaks with Bill Whalen about US-India relations and India’s prospects for
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  continued development; and Russ Roberts explains why the Chabad religious sect
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  has nothing to do with the war against the Iranian regime.
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  Condoleeza Rice on the War in Iran.
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  Hoover Institution Director Condoleeza Rice’s recent conversation with Brett
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  Baier of Fox News, featured in yesterday’s Hoover Daily Report, is now
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  available as an audio podcast. Rice emphasizes that Iran’s current regime has
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  been at war with the United States since its inception in 1979 and has committed
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  repeated acts of extreme violence against US troops, diplomatic personnel, and
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  civilians, as well as American allies. Rice argues Iran made a “strategic
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  blunder” in attacking with indiscriminate missile and drone fire neighboring Gulf
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  States that were not involved in American and Israeli strikes. Acknowledging “the
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  uncertainties of warfare” and the validity of concerns about plans for the
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  day after in Iran following this war, Rice maintains that rendering the regime
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  incapable of using its military power is a “worthy goal” for US and allied foreign
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  policy.
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  India: Brain Gains and Growing Pains with Šumit Ganguly.
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  Two decades shy of its 100th anniversary of statehood, how is India progressing in
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  its goal of becoming an innovative, prosperous, environmentally friendly, and
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  developed nation? Senior Fellow Šumit Ganguly, director of Hoover’s Huntington
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  Program on Strengthening US-India Relations, joins Matters of Policy &
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  Politics to discuss Hoover’s newly released Annual Survey of India 2026.
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  Among the survey topics explored: an assessment of India’s economy; the
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  nation’s uncertain foreign policy; Indian education at a “crossroads”; and the
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  nation’s contemporary challenges regarding science, technology, and
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  innovation policy. The conversation also considers how India’s “strategic
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  autonomy” and oil needs are affected by the war in the Middle East; India’s
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  economic competition with neighboring China; and Prime Minister Modi’s
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  complicated relationship with the American president and US tariff policy.
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  Chabad and the War with Iran?
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  At his Substack, Visiting Fellow Russ Roberts explains the origins of the
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  Jewish religious sect Chabad. “Today it is just a particular flavor of orthodox
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  Judaism,” Roberts writes, noting that the movement centers around locally run
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  institutions “called Chabad Houses all over America and all over the world.”
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  Roberts further notes that “Chabad is apolitical,” which brings him to the
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  claim currently circulating in American populist and far-right circles that
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  Chabad is somehow the driving force behind the current US-Israeli war against
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  the Iranian regime. “Chabad has absolutely nothing to do with this war
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  and I would normally not spend a single minute discussing these claims,” Roberts
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  says.
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  Except that the claim that Jews want to destroy the Al-Aqsa Mosque and rebuild
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  the Temple in Jerusalem is the pretext used by Hamas on October 7th which they
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  and their supporters around the world called the Al-Aqsa Flood resulting in the
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  death of 1200 Israelis and the torment of the 250 people who were kidnapped.
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  Roberts situates the current claims about Chabad in the broader history of
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  anti-Semitic ideology and violence over time.
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  Is Miami Becoming Wall Street South?
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  On the latest episode of Capitalism and Freedom in the Twenty-First Century,
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  Policy Fellow Jon Hartley speaks with President of Citadel Securities Jim
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  Esposito. Esposito reflects on the early stages of his career, his tenure in
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  senior roles at Goldman Sachs in New York and London, and moving to Miami to run
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  one of the world’s largest broker-dealers and market makers, Citadel Securities.
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  They also discuss the rising role Miami is playing in global capital
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  markets—becoming what many have termed “Wall Street South”—and the impact that
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  Citadel’s moving its headquarters there played in this development. Hartley and
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  Esposito also discuss ongoing trends in the economy, as well as the rising role
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  of AI in finance and business.
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  How Can Universities Strengthen Civic Education in K–12 Schools?
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  On March 4, the Hoover Institution’s Alliance for Civics in the Academy hosted
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  "How Can Universities Strengthen Civic Education in K–12 Schools?" with civics
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  scholars Jennifer McNabb, Joshua Dunn, and Jenna Storey. Universities are
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  increasingly reexamining their role as incubators of effective citizenship. An
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  essential yet often overlooked part of this work is strengthening K–12 civic
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  education. This webinar explores how efforts within higher education can
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  support civic learning in K–12 schools, with particular emphasis on the academy’s
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  role in training the next generation of educators. The panelists brought to this
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  conversation many years of combined study and experience in analysis of the
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  pedagogical methods and philosophical frameworks used to teach civics in the
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  United States at all levels.
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  Featured Research Initiative.
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  Renewing Indigenous Economies.
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  The Hoover Project on Renewing Indigenous Economies is dedicated to understanding
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  how the rich history of governance, entrepreneurship, and trade allowed
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  Indigenous peoples to thrive before colonization and how restoring these
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  traditions can help rebuild Indigenous economies, cultures, and communities from
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  the ground up.
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  That’s your Hoover Daily Report for Friday, March 6th, twenty twenty six.
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  Each weekday, we bring you research, analysis, and commentary focused on
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  public policy, national security, and the ideas shaping American society and
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  government.
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  The Hoover Institution at Stanford University is grounded in constitutional
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  principles with a commitment to sustaining the safeguards of the American
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  way of life.
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  Thank you for listening.
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  For links to all the articles and interviews mentioned today, visit
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  hoover.org slash, HDR.