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Hoover Daily Report | June 3, 2026 · Hoover Daily Report

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  Welcome to "the Hoover Daily Report". Ideas Advancing
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  Freedom. It's Wednesday, June 3rd, twenty twenty six.
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  Today, Condoleezza Rice argues the US achieved tangible gains with its air war
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  against Iran. Niall Ferguson says the global AI race needs a Kissinger-like
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  figure to reach some form of détente. John Cochrane walks us through the first
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  challenge that awaits Kevin Warsh as Fed chair. Steven Davis asks a pair of
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  scholars why drug misuse deaths in the US have risen tenfold since 1979. And Eugene
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  Volluck and Jane Bambauer examine how privacy concerns interact with the First
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  Amendment, looking at recording the police, selling the rights to your life
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  story, and Hulk Hogan suing Gawker.
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  What the US Has Accomplished in Iran.
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  In The Wall Street Journal, Hoover Institution Director Condoleezza Rice
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  argues the US-Israeli war has degraded Iran’s conventional capabilities,
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  decimated its economy, smashed its remaining proxies and brought the Gulf
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  States closer together. “Iran is far weaker today than it was in February,”
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  Rice writes. “No amount of Iranian propaganda can mask this reality.
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  America’s near-term goals should be to keep it in that weakened state, to
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  strengthen the region’s political realignment, and to make certain that
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  President Trump’s promise that Iran will never possess a nuclear weapon is
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  fulfilled.” Now, the remaining goals of reopening the Strait of Hormuz and
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  dealing with Iran’s nuclear material may take time, but Rice says “time is on the
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  side of the US and its allies.”.
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  Artificial Intelligence and Global Security.
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  Comparing today’s race to expand the scale and capacity of AI to the nuclear
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  arms race of the Cold War, Senior Fellow Niall Ferguson argues for “a rapid
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  transition to a new détente based on AI arms control,” to anticipate and perhaps
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  mitigate negative employment and security impacts of unfettered AI development.
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  Ferguson points out that apart from the obvious personality flaws of several of
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  the heads of leading AI firms, plus a US president who seems largely uninterested
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  in controlling AI’s development, there is basically no US regulatory mechanism
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  examining AI at the moment. There is the “Center for AI Standards and Innovation,
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  with a budget of just $10 million, something less than the compensation of a
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  senior AI researcher at a top lab,” he writes.
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  The Fed’s Next Inflation Test.
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  In this week’s Grumpy Economist Weekly Rant, Senior Fellow John Cochrane
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  examines the next major inflation challenge facing the Federal Reserve.
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  With Kevin Warsh newly appointed as Fed chair, Cochrane argues that the central
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  question is no longer simply whether the Fed should lower interest rates but how
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  it should respond to competing forces: productivity gains from artificial
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  intelligence, tariffs, oil price shocks, and renewed inflation pressure. Cochrane
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  raises a deeper question about how the Fed should respond when prices move for
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  very different reasons—from productivity gains that make goods cheaper to tariffs
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  and oil shocks that push prices higher. As affordability concerns intensify, he
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  asks whether the Fed should continue to “look through” temporary price-level
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  shocks or reconsider how those shocks affect expectations, households, and the
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  credibility of monetary policy.
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  Why Have Drug Deaths Spiked in America?
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  On the latest episode of Economics, Applied, Steven J. Davis speaks with
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  William Evans and Ethan Lieber, both of Notre Dame University, about the
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  heartbreaking rise of deaths due to drug misuse in the United States. A major
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  shift in prescription practices for pain management after 1995 drove higher levels
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  of opiate use and misuse and contributed to an explosion of illicit opiates in
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  this century. It’s a disturbing story of professional misjudgments, deceptive
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  marketing, policy mistakes, and unintended consequences. Reforms in
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  prescription practices, while overdue, will mitigate but not solve current-day
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  problems of drug abuse and misuse.
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  The First Amendment and Privacy Rights.
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  Hosts Eugene Volokh and Jane Bambauer unpack the complicated and often
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  uncomfortable relationship between free speech and privacy, exploring a range of
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  issues, from anonymous political pamphlets and government surveillance to
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  revenge porn, hidden cameras, autobiographies, celebrity likeness
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  rights, wiretap laws, and the constitutional limits of “the right to be
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  left alone.” Along the way, they dive into landmark Supreme Court cases,
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  the origins of American privacy law, Hulk Hogan’s takedown of Gawker,
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  the legality of recording police, and why seemingly simple questions like “Who owns
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  your life story?” turn into some of the thorniest conflicts in First Amendment
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  law.
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  Designing Liberty in an Algorithmic Age.
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  Leading researchers, technologists, entrepreneurs, and policymakers convened
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  at Hoover on May 1 to examine one of the defining questions of the modern era: how
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  artificial intelligence will shape democracy, freedom, and public life in
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  the decades ahead. The invitation-only event focused on how societies can govern
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  increasingly powerful AI systems while preserving human agency and democratic
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  accountability. Senior Fellow
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  Andrew B. Hall characterized the challenge
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  this way: AI technologies are evolving faster than traditional academic and
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  policy processes can respond, creating an urgent need for new forms of research,
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  governance experimentation, and institutional design.
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  From COVID to AI, What’s Next for Teacher’s Unions?
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  In a new episode of Factual Foundations of Policy, Hoover Fellow Michael T.
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  Hartney and Melissa Arnold Lyon of University of Albany SUNY, join host and
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  Policy Fellow Tom Church to examine the role of teachers’ unions in American
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  education at a time of declining student achievement, post-COVID learning loss,
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  and rapid technological change. Drawing on research about union membership,
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  collective bargaining, and teacher strikes, the discussion explores how
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  unions shape both education policy and working conditions. They also review
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  evidence on unions’ effects on education spending, teacher compensation, and
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  student outcomes.
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  Featured Hoover Publication.
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  Stratejika.
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  Stratejika is an online journal that analyzes ongoing issues of national
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  security in light of conflicts of the past—the efforts of the Military History
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  Working Group of historians, analysts, and military personnel focusing on
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  military history and contemporary conflict.
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  That’s your Hoover Daily Report for Wednesday, June 3rd, 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.