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The Hoover Institution and the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies are presenting a screening of Age of Delirium: The Decline and Fall of the Soviet Union on May 16, 2012, at 6:30 pm at the Fisher Conference Center in the Arrillaga Alumni Association Building on the Stanford campus. Click here for more information.
One of the country’s leading economists, Hoover Institution senior fellow John B. Taylor, has been named this year’s recipient of the prestigious Hayek Prize for his book First Principles: Five Keys to Restoring America’s Prosperity (W.W. Norton 2012). Click here for more information.
Brigadier General H. R. McMaster, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, earned renown by applying the tenets of counterinsurgency strategy during the war in Iraq. That strategy helped inspire the shift that turned around the Iraq war under General David Petraeus, General McMaster's mentor and fellow West Point graduate. Now General McMaster is attempting to apply that counterinsurgency strategy in Afghanistan. Click here to read the article.

More than three hundred programs from William F. Buckley’s Firing Line television series are now available on Amazon Instant Video, which offers instant streaming on compatible devices.

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

Finding aids to the collections described below are now available through the Online Archive of California.

Andrzej Paczkowski, professor of history in the Political Studies Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences, and his country’s most respected authority on Communism, is in residence in the Hoover Tower during the month of May. He is surveying and exploring Hoover’s extensive research collections on modern Poland. Paczkowski’s historical works, some of which have been translated into English (The Black Book of Communism, and The Spring will be Ours: Poland and the Poles from Occupation to Freedom), are well known to specialists. Much less is known about the Polish historian’s past as one of the underground archivists of “Solidarity,” the premier pro-democracy movement in all of the former Soviet Bloc, and about his important role in building Hoover’s Polish collections.

In this podcast Russell Roberts, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and EconTalk host, discusses, with David Owen, author of the First National Bank of Dad, how to educate our children about money and finance. Owen explains how he created savings accounts for his kids to give them an incentive to save and to teach them about postponing gratification, investing, keeping money in perspective, and other life lessons.

Tammy Frisby, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, discusses, with NBC Bay Area's Brent Cannon, how to solve California's budget woes.

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.

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.

Peter Berkowitz, the Tad and Dianne Taube Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, defends the international laws of war by exposing the flawed assumptions and defective claims that have gained currency from The Goldstone Report (2009 Report of the United Nations Fact Finding Mission) and the Gaza Flotilla controversy.