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Hoover Institution Provides Korea with Rare Copies of Historical Documents

Recovered missing documents revealing long-held secrets are usually the basis of suspense novels. A copy of the Hoover Institution’s Japan Koshikan (Korea) records, however, may be a case of truth proving stranger than fiction.

Hoover Fellows’ Commentary on Nuclear Nonproliferation

Hoover Fellows’ Commentary on the Economic Crisis

Did the stimulus funding help or hurt the U.S. economy in the long run?

John B. Taylor, the George P. Shultz Senior Fellow in Economics at the Hoover Institution and the Mary and Robert Raymond Professor of Economics at Stanford University, discusses whether the stimulus and other programs helped or hurt the economy.

Hoover fellow discusses Ba’ath Party records on ABC News

Richard Sousa, a senior associate director at the Hoover Institution and director of its library and archives, discusses the Institution’s archival collection of Ba’ath Party records on ABC 7 News. Sousa details the archival and historic value of the 12 million party documents housed in the Hoover Institution Archives.
See related Stanford Magazine article.

Commentary

July 29, 2010 | Daily Beast

What Does Julian Assange Want?

by Tunku Varadarajan (Virginia Hobbs Carpenter Fellow in Journalism)

If Hollywood were ever to make a film about a nihilistic leaker-hacker dude, a rootless subverter of international public order, they couldn’t do better than to cast Julian Assange as himself...

July 29, 2010 | Economics One (blog)

More on the Blinder-Zandi Working Paper on the Crisis

by John B. Taylor (George P. Shultz Senior Fellow in Economics; Chair, Working Group on Economic Policy; and member of the Task Force on Energy Policy)

Yesterday the New York Times published an article about simulations of the effects of fiscal stimulus packages and financial interventions using an old Keynesian model...

July 30, 2010 | San Francisco Chronicle

National standards would harm math curriculum

by Williamson M. Evers (Research Fellow)

You've Got V-Mail

Political Poster Collection, US 7299, Hoover Institution Archives

When a colleague encountered something unfamiliar while working on a collection of documents and asked me if I knew anything about "V-Mail," I thought she must be referring to some new and exotic form of electronic mail.

July 22, 2010

Firing Line clips are now available on Hoover’s website

Clips of William F. Buckley’s Firing Line television series are now available on Hoover’s website and on YouTube.

July 20, 2010

Sound Recordings in Ferdinand Peroutka Papers Digitized by Hoover

A dramatization of Ferdinand Peroutka's play Šťastlivec Sulla, along with a number of his radio addresses and interviews, is among the more than forty audio recordings in the Peroutka papers digitized by the Hoover Archives.

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July 29, 2010

Victor Davis Hanson is on KQED’s Michael Krasny show

Victor Davis Hanson, the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, is the author of many articles, books, and editorials on Greek, agrarian, and military history and essays on contemporary culture. He joins Michael Krasny in the studio to discuss his new book, The Father of Us All: War and History, Ancient and Modern.

July 26, 2010 | EconTalk

Robert Service on Trotsky

Robert Service discusses his biography on Trotsky

In this podcast Russell Roberts, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and EconTalk host, discusses, with Hoover senior fellow and noted Russian historian Robert Service, the life and death of Leon Trotsky. The conversation covers Trotsky's influence on the Russian Revolution, his influence on policy alongside Lenin, his expulsion from Soviet Union in 1928, and his murder in 1940 by Stalin's order.

July 23, 2010 | Recorded on July 14, 2010

Charles Hill—Grand Strategies

with guest Charles Hill

Charles Hill on <i>Uncommon Knowledge</i>

Ambassador Hill is the author of a number of books, the most recent of which is Grand Strategies: Literature, Statecraft, and World Order.

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