The Axis of Chaos, with Matt Pottinger | GoodFellows: John H. Cochrane, Niall Ferguson, H.R. McMaster, and Bill Whalen | Hoover Institution

A new “cold war” presents a familiar challenge for America: how to curb a rival great power’s ambitions. Matt Pottinger, a Hoover Institution visiting fellow and editor of the forthcoming bookhoover.org/research/boiling-moat-urgent-steps-… (hoover.org/research/boiling-moat-urgent-steps-…)Boiling Moat: Urgent Steps to Defend (hoover.org/research/boiling-moat-urgent-steps-…)Taiwan (hoover.org/research/boiling-moat-urgent-steps-…), joins Hoover senior fellows Niall Ferguson, John Cochrane, and H.R. McMaster to discuss how best to discourage China from moving on its island neighbor. After that: the fellows debate the wisdom of the UK’s fast-tracked national election; plus what, if anything, has surprised them during this year’s round of episodes (spoiler alert: plenty of chickens—bad policies, poorly run universities—came home to roost).