Endless Summer: Iran, Woke Two?, and the George Costanza Theory of War

无尽的夏日:伊朗,觉醒二?以及乔治·科斯坦扎的战争理论

GoodFellows: Conversations on Economics, History & Geopolitics

2026-08-21

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On the latest GoodFellows: Is economic strangulation the key to achieving Iranian cooperation, or another misstep in the Persian Gulf? Is a sequel to “Woke 1” in the works? And does playing the race card in the aftermath of a former Cambridge University professor's suicide make his death even more tragic – and distract from another tragedy: declining academic tragedy? Subscribe to GoodFellows for clarity on today’s biggest social, economic, and geostrategic shifts — only on GoodFellows.
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  • My understanding is that Francesca Hong has made clear her present stances to her electorate.

  • Yeah, she's moved away from a lot of that.

  • Right, she's moved away from it.

  • And I have a local city councilman that has this saying, woke one was crazy.

  • It's Wednesday, August 19, 2026,

  • and welcome back to Goodfellows, a Hoover Institution broadcast examining history, economics, and geopolitics.

  • I'm Bill Whelan.

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

  • I'll be your moderator today.

  • Looking forward to words of wisdom from three of my colleagues we call the Goodfellows.

  • I'm referring, of course, to former Presidential National Security Advisor,

  • Lieutenant General H.R. McMaster, the economist John Cochran.

  • And historian Sir Neil Ferguson.

  • And Neil, I mentioned you last instead of first because I want to personally thank you for sitting

  • in my chair and moderating the last show.

  • And I got the sense that you don't want to take over my job.

  • Well, moderation is not something I'm famous for in any sense of the word.

  • But you're so good at it, Bill, that it's absolutely, it's vanity.

  • It's les majestés to try to take your place.

  • But they made me do it.