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Turkish president Abdullah Gül visits Hoover Tower.
Turkish president Abdullah Gül visits Hoover Tower
As a respite from a daylong series of meetings at Stanford University, Turkish president Abdullah Gül and First Lady Hayrünnisa Gül visited the Hoover Tower on Wednesday, May 23, 2012, for a bird's-eye view of the campus and the Bay Area. Hoover fellow Condoleezza Rice escorted the president to the observation deck, which stands 280 feet above ground. Completed in 1941, the Hoover Tower is a university and local icon. Click here for more information.
Data Matters: Keeping the Horse Race in Perspective
Morris Fiorina, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, discusses the presidential race.
Morris Fiorina, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, discusses the presidential race.
Jeremy Rabkin (left) and Ariel Rabkin.
New essay concerning cyber threats from the National Security and Law Task Force
The newest essay, “To Confront Cyber Threats, We Must Rethink the Law of Armed Conflict,” by Jeremy and Ariel Rabkin, is available on the Emerging Threats essay series page. In this essay the authors discuss deliberate attacks on websites and computer networks, so-called cyber attacks, that are part of life on the Internet, with some foreign governments encouraging, assisting, or directing such attacks. In a serious international crisis, similar attacks might be launched with dire consequences.
Author and television host John Stossel.
John Stossel
This week on Uncommon Knowledge author and television host John Stossel discusses his new book No, They Can’t: Why Government Fails—but Individuals Succeed. (45:18)
“Market competition is cruel. There are winners and losers. But that is better than the alternative where there are only losers.”
Fellows on TV and radio:
Petrilli discusses Romney’s education reforms on Wall Street Journal TV
Lazear discusses the fear of tax hikes on CNBC’s Closing Bell
David Davenport on the Janet Mefferd Show
Joseph McNamara on the Jason Lewis Show
Bill Whalen on the John Batchelor Show
Commentary
May 25, 2012 | Wall Street Journal
The Liberal Legal Meltdown Over ObamaCare
If supporters of mandatory insurance were as confident of its merits as they claim to be, they would offer legal arguments, not moral accusations...
May 24, 2012 | Project Syndicate
Threading the Fiscal Needle
With many citizens now struggling, political leaders face a daunting task: adopt credible medium- and long-term reforms without derailing the economy in the short term...
May 24, 2012 | Defining Ideas (Hoover Institution)
America's Problem of Assimilation
Are we a melting pot or a salad bowl?...
May 24, 2012 | What Paul Gregory Is Writing About
If You Want to Understand Germany Think of Texas and California
Imagine the reaction if some higher authority told Texas to pay for the shortfall in California’s budget? This is exactly what the Californias of Europe and European Union bureaucrats are demanding of Germany...
May 24, 2012 | Education Next
The Romney Education Plan
Replacing Federal Overreach on Accountability with Federal Overreach on School Choice...
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Library and Archives
May 25, 2012
A Soviet Vignette of the Hoover Institution
During a recent archival reconnaissance expedition to Latvia, in advance of yet another Hoover digitization project in the countries of the former USSR, Stanford history professor Amir Weiner came across an account of a 1967 visit to Stanford by Aleksandrs Drizulis, a high Soviet Communist Party official and historian. The following text is from Drizulis’s presentation to party activists on April 18, 1968.
May 23, 2012
Inventory of the American Association for Higher Education Records Now Online
As recently announced in Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, the inventory for the American Association for Higher Education (AAHE) records is now available online. The collection consists of the association's conference materials, publications, project files, correspondence, and meeting minutes, all relating to higher education in the United States.
May 22, 2012
Milton Friedman Sound Recordings Digitized
More than two hundred fifty audiotapes in the Milton Friedman papers are available for listening after having been digitized by Hoover's audio lab. The earliest, recorded in 1961, captures a debate between Friedman and Senator Joseph Clark on the proper role of the federal government in which Friedman frames his argument around a critique of John F. Kennedy's inaugural address.
May 14, 2012 | Hoover Archivists' Musings (blog)
The Battle for Hearts and Minds
From the introduction to the exhibit "The Battle for Hearts and Minds: World War II Propaganda" currently on display at the Hoover Institution, by Dr. George H. Nash
News Update
May 23, 2012 | Closing Bell (CNBC)
Lazear discusses the fear of tax hikes on CNBC’s Closing Bell
Edward Lazear, the Morris Arnold Cox Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and former chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, shares his perspective on the potential tax increases and spending cuts.
May 21, 2012 | EconTalk
Coase on externalities, the firm, and the state of economics
In this podcast Russell Roberts, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and EconTalk host, discusses, with Nobel laureate Ronald Coase of the University of Chicago, Coase’s career, the current state of economics, and the Chinese economy. Coase, born in 1910, reflects on his youth and his two great papers, “The Nature of the Firm” and “The Problem of Social Cost.”
May 14, 2012
Frisby responds to questions about California's budget crisis on NBC Bay Area
Tammy Frisby, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, discusses, with NBC Bay Area's Brent Cannon, how to solve California's budget woes.
May 14, 2012 | CNN
Ajami: Syria is Obama's Rwanda
Fouad Ajami, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and cochair of the Working Group on Islamism and the International Order, says President Obama may regret not helping people in Syria the way President Clinton regrets not stepping in to stop the genocide in Rwanda.
May 10, 2012 | Forum with Michael Krasny (KQED)
Whalen discusses President Obama’s support of same-sex marriage on KQED’s Forum
Bill Whalen, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution where he studies and writes on current events and political trends, discusses President Obama’s support of same-sex marriage and what this decision may mean for the presidential election.