In this second installment of audience questions, viewers and listeners from nearly three dozen nations spanning six continents ask Hoover senior fellows Niall Ferguson, H. R. McMaster and John Cochrane about the durability of America’s “empire,” Putin’s war crimes, Henry Kissinger’s worldview, and the future of Western universities. Preceding all of that: an on-the-ground report from Cochrane in Tokyo, who is amazed that “it’s possible to run a city that is not a zombie apocalypse.”
ABOUT THE SERIES
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. They can’t banter over lunch these days, but they continue their spirited conversation online about what comes next, as we look forward to an end to the crisis.
For more on this series visit, https://www.hoover.org/goodfellows.
0:00 Introduction
00:39 Japan: Differences between Japan and the US
6:33 How much longer do you guys think the US Empire will last?
11:57 Are bank failures government failures?
15:23 It seems reckless that the International Criminal Court charged Putin with war crimes, i.e., their “international rules-based order” versus a nuclear head of state. They’ve now explicitly made this into an existential struggle for both parties. Yay, or nay?
16:40 Can General McMaster please recount his experience of the great tank battle which he fought?
19:40 What is Henry Kissinger’s position on Ukraine?
22:39 What do the Good Fellows see as the key selling points of Western education in 2023?
28:58 What effect will the majority of Americans with differing values from our own have on the way our country governs, projects military strength and sees itself in the world order?
36:09 Lightning round
46:00 End
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Maybe you are a "great" power but you have blood on your hands.
How to end a report by the totally inappropriate cultural slurs and toilet humor. I didnt realize you were so immature and unprofessional. I don't understand why you felt it was necessary to say that. The thing people hate about MSM is how biased it is. People can find opposing views on MSM, we search for something that is truthful, factual, and unbiased.
"Red tape"? You both were wrong. It didn't come from the Ottoman Empire or the English and India. Funny how the brit had to jump in to tell you it was the great British empire and should fact check before telling someone that they are wrong, which humiliates them publicly. Before speaking, make sure what you say is true. This is why we should question everyone and everything we are told. Just because it's said doesn't mean it's true. Human memory is not as reliable as we think. Red tape comes from 16th century Spain.
It is generally believed that the term originated with the Spanish administration of Charles V, King of Spain and Holy Roman Emperor, in the early 16th century, who started to use red tape in an effort to modernize the administration that was running his vast empire.
Yeah. New York right now is a zombie apocalypse.
I'm not a Kissinger fan. He helped make China great again. no thanks.
John Cochrane pro Ethno-state? A bold stance.
I'm surprised that Niall Ferguson mentioned Woke and Snowflakes its divisive and wrong. Universities were once free in the UK and America, fees price out poor and working class.People like conservative David Cameron pulled the ladder up after them in the UK after going to university out of the public purse.
I don't care if people identify as a carrot as long as they are good students and good citizens in their countries.
What else can we do but laugh at the face of the disaster that has befallen us? We are all Jews nowadays!
My brain thanks you for this !!!
Like Water for a thirsty man.
The history off the British monagy is great they love a bit of slavery some faminn some slaughter a bit of mass murder just getting started best about it oppressed people can do the same then we are all gone😮
Imagine a christ like society without christianity! Hmmm
I recently listened to ex-CIA analyst Martin Gurri argue we're at a transition point in our society where the advent of the internet and global instant communication has been equivalent to the introduction of the printing press, which destabilized Europe. He also argues our 20th century institutions are outdated and failing en masse and desperately need to be completely replaced. I encourage all of you to give him a listen. He is quite insightful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNouqxDaH0w
Ferguson on socialism (32:50) – straw man argument. Bernie Sanders and AOC are about as much socialist as J. P. Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon and Goldman Sachs CEO David M. Solomon are actual capitalists. The problem for so-called "conservatives" is that, for all-too-many youngsters, contemporary capitalism is producing terrible outcomes. No wonder they'd like their capitalism seasoned with a dash of "socialism".
Uh, no. I’m afraid we cannot duplicate what Japan achieves in the public space. All this is driven by culture, and we have a culture obsessed with celebrity and individuality. We also have a polyglot population that is becoming more fragmented and hostile. Culturally we are the complete opposite of Japan.
In short Japan's major benefit is that they are less marxist than most modern states. Marxist philosophy is based on oppressor/oppressed, and breeds envy and resentment, thus to a poor Japanese person… Society doesn't really owe him anything, thus there is no justification to damage the city. In American cities the poor feel society owes them for race or economic issues, thus it is justified to damage the city around them.
Top notch again! Molto grazie!
Maybe after North America gets nuked a few times, we could rebuild our cities in a much more modernized and efficient manner. Much like the Japanese did, but!… with all the division, people on the government’s tete, and lower work ethic; could it be done as quick and efficient is the question?
Sure, just try to encourage university students to question the DEI social justice orthodoxy. You’ll end up like this professor, who has survived two inquisitions and being told by my Chair that I am GUILTY of micro aggressions. The students are terrified of being labeled a racist and don’t dare question the powers that be.
Our cities are scary!!!
How about the transistor as the most important American historical contribution to humanity!!