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Hoover Daily Report | May 8, 2026 · Hoover Daily Report

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  Welcome to "the Hoover Daily Report". Ideas Advancing
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  Freedom. It's Friday, May 8th, twenty twenty six.
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  This Friday,
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  Michael Auslin shares
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  the story of how he came to write a major new history of the Declaration of
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  Independence; Rose Gottemoeller speaks with Bill Whalen about her experiences
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  negotiating arms control treaties with Russia and serving in a senior post at
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  NATO; and Andrew Roberts discusses the need to increase economic literacy and
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  appreciation for the power of markets among young people
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  with Daniel Hannan, a prominent British writer and politician.
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  Mining the “National Treasure”.
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  Distinguished Research Fellow Michael Auslin has a new book out this week,
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  National Treasure: How the Declaration of Independence Made America. In this
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  interview for Defining Ideas, he spoke with
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  Hoover’s Chris Herhalt about
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  how his study of the history of the Declaration got started, the original
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  document’s unique past, and what this foundational piece of writing has meant
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  to Americans throughout history. “I wanted to write a book because I wanted
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  to read a book on our history with the Declaration, our life story through it
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  and with it, how it inspired us, how we reverenced it, how we protected it, and
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  how we commoditized it,” Auslin says. “It’s really a history of America through
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  the Declaration.” Auslin suggests that greater attention to the Declaration and
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  its ideals can help to remedy “all the anger and the civil discord that we have
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  in the country, especially with angry young people who have been radicalized by
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  social media and radicalized to hear only the worst about America and not
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  understand the historical perspective in which this country has achieved so
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  much.”.
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  Security Through Cooperation: Rose Gottemoeller on US-Russian Diplomacy
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  Past, Present, and Future?
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  On a new and special episode of Matters of Policy & Politics recorded in person,
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  Research Fellow Rose Gottemoeller, a former deputy secretary general of NATO
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  and Clinton and Obama administration
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  national security aide, provides an insider’s view of nuclear arms control
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  negotiations.
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  Gottemoeller
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  sets the record straight on the Clinton-Yeltsin summits, shares what she
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  learned as the first American woman to lead nuclear arms talks, and explains why
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  Vladimir Putin went from offering help in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks to
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  seeing America as a threat to Russia’s security. Whalen also asks
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  Gottemoeller about the challenges she faced
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  while serving as NATO’s deputy secretary general during the first Trump
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  presidency. The conversation builds on Gottemoeller’s new book, Security Through
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  Cooperation: Space, Nuclear Weapons, and US-Russia Relations after the Cold War.
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  Dan Hannan and The Case for Capitalism.
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  On the latest episode of Secrets of Statecraft, Distinguished Visiting Fellow
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  Andrew Roberts speaks with Daniel Hannan, a British writer, journalist, and
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  politician. Hannan starts by announcing his appointment as the new director of
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  the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA), a pioneering free market think tank
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  founded in 1955. Hannan reflects on the intellectual legacy of the IEA and argues
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  that the case for free markets, once broadly accepted, must now be made all
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  over again in an age drifting back toward statism. The conversation ranges
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  widely—from the resurgence of protectionism and the erosion of economic
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  literacy to the failures of modern political leadership, the legacy of
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  Brexit, and the cultural forces shaping today’s electorate. Along the way, Hannan
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  explores the deep roots of conservatism, the challenges of defending free trade in
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  an intuitively protectionist world, and the urgent need to reintroduce
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  fundamental economic truths to a new generation.
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  Former US Senator Phil Gramm on Inequality Fallacies and How Economic
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  Freedom Creates Growth.
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  In a new episode of Capitalism and Freedom in the 21st Century, Policy
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  Fellow Jon Hartley speaks with former US senator from Texas Phil Gramm, a trained
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  economist who has had a long and distinguished career in public service,
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  academia, and the private sector. Hartley and Gramm discuss the latter’s career as
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  an academic economist at Texas A&M, his service in the US House of
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  Representatives
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  and in the US Senate, and his work on landmark legislation cutting government
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  spending and reforming the US finance, banking, and insurance sectors.
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  Graham also discusses his recent books on the role that economic freedom plays in
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  economic growth
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  and takes on various fallacies surrounding the rise of inequality in the
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  US.
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  The Iran Stalemate.
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  With the war against Iran turning into a sea-based blockade and with the entire
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  globe’s energy market hanging in the balance, Senior Fellow Niall Ferguson
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  argues at The Free Press that a negotiated settlement that reopens the
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  Strait of Hormuz is probably a long way off, and Iran can hold out for months at
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  least. “Operation Economic Fury is certainly causing economic pain to Iran.
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  But the closure of the Strait of Hormuz is an American-Iranian joint venture that
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  is causing pain to everyone,” he writes. Calculating how long Iran could hold out
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  depends on a range of factors, so he outlines three possible scenarios for the
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  economic impact of the blockade. In short, the historian finds that anything
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  less than an immediate, complete reopening of the strait is likely to
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  bring severe economic pain to the United States and the world. Ferguson concludes
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  by cautioning readers, “Wars take much less time to start than you think they
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  will, and last much longer than you thought they could.”.
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  That’s your Hoover Daily Report for Friday, May 8th, 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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  Thank you for listening.
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  For links to all the articles and interviews mentioned today, visit
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