“Deciders”, “Honey Badgers”, and “Lonely Liberals”: Sarah Isgur on a Divided Supreme Court

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  Because man is fallen, and the desire for power was,

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  as James Madison described it, sown in the nature of man, government had to be limited.

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  For as Madison also said, if men were angels, no government would be necessary.

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  If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.

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  But, alas, men are not angels.

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  It 's Monday, May 11th, 2026, and welcome back to Goodfellows,

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  a Hoover Institution broadcast examining history, economics, and geopolitics.

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  I'm Bill Whalen.

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  I'm a distinguished policy fellow here at the Hoover Institution.

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  I'll be moderating our conversation today, reaching three of my colleagues we jokingly refer to as the Goodfellows.

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  Referring, of course, to the historian Sir Neil Ferguson,

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  the economist John Cochran, and former presidential national security advisor, Lieutenant General H.R. McMaster.

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  Neil, John, and H.R.

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  Are all Hoover senior fellows.

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  Gentlemen, good to see you.

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  And today we have two segments in store.

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  In the second part of our show, we 're going to talk about the latest situation in Iran,

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  the diplomatic impasse, as well as the upcoming summit that Donald Trump and Xi Jinping are holding in Beijing.

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  But the first part of our show, we 're going to deal with that mysterious building next to the United States Capitol

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  called the United States Supreme Court.

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