They were . . . Hoover fellow Charles Wolf Jr. explains what went wrong and how to fix it. Hoover fellows Thomas A. Metzger and Ramon H. Myers argue that the Chinese are far too realistic for that and have been for more than a thousand years. Despite China's stunning economic transformation, American critics still attack Beijing for denying its people democratic rights. Hoover media fellow Tom Bethell says calm down.
Democracy is more a response to prosperity than a cause of it.
Hoover fellow Michael A. McFaul dissents. It would be an odd dictatorship, he argues, that found itself thwarted by a legislature or pushed around by a free press. A Tale of Two Generations Despite almost half a century of peace, prosperity, and democracy and despite the reunification of Germany itself older Germans are gloomy about the nation's future. Younger Germans aren't. By Hoover fellow Dennis L. Bark.