Today, Ben Sasse speaks with Peter Robinson about how he’s continuing to find meaning and purpose in life despite a terminal cancer diagnosis; Ross Levine, writing as Adam Smith, explains why it’s morally dangerous to admire the wrong people; and Frank Dikötter lays out how the Chinese Communist Party has convinced many observers to accept a sanitized and largely fictional historical account of its own revolutionary rise to power in China. 

Hoover Daily Report | February 17, 2026