A Revolutionary Idea: Hoover Making History since 1919The Hoover Institution is marking the ninetieth anniversary of its founding with an exhibit titled A Revolutionary Idea: Hoover Making History since 1919. The exhibit opens on June 30, 2009.
Hoover fellows' insights, interviews, and recommendations concerning the economic crisis of 2008-2009
The new issue of Hoover Digest is available onlineFeatured articles
Getting Off Track
Ideas and Consequences
Don’t Let the Cure Destroy Capitalism
Edward Lazear, the Morris Arnold Cox Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, is interviewed on Fox Business NewsLazear discusses the state of the economy, stimulus plans, and the unemployment rate.
Tyranny Loses In Iran
Forbes, July 1, 2009
by Abbas Milani
A tyrannical triumvirate, one that is led by Ayatollah Khamenei and supported by the military might of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and the street presence of gangs with ranks numbering at least a few million, seems hell-bent on forcing Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on the reluctant and still-resisting people of Iran...
Ricci Vs. DeStefano
Forbes, June 29, 2009
by Richard A. Epstein
Monday's decision of the United States Supreme Court in the New Haven Firefighter's affirmative action case, Ricci v. DeStefano reveals an open wound on affirmative action by public bodies that time has not healed...
Sorting out truth in medical cost debate
Dallas Morning News, July 2, 2009
by Thomas Sowell
There are an abundance of catch phrases but remarkably few coherent arguments in the political and media discussions of medical care...
The Books Interview: Niall Ferguson
New Statesman (UK), July 2, 2009
The Ascent of Money is an essay in financial history...
1. How to Cure Health Care
2. Hurley’s Dream
3. Hoover Digest 2009 No. 3
4. The Power of Statelessness
5. Property Rights: A Practical Guide to Freedom and Prosperity
6. Dollars to Doughnuts
7. Reykjavik Revisited: Steps toward a World Free of Nuclear Weapons
8. Policy Review No. 155, June & July 2009
9. God and John Rawls
10. Education Next 2007 No. 4
New List of 206 Tapes in Milton Friedman’s Economics Cassette Series
July 1, 2009
A list of programs in Milton Friedman’s extensive Economics Cassette Series (ECS), 1969–78, is now available (click here and then scroll down to box 103).
Newly Digitized Sound Recordings in the Christopher T. Emmet Jr. Papers
June 24, 2009
Listening copies of all recordings on lacquer discs in the Emmet papers, 1913–1974, are now available in the Hoover Archives reading room. A list of the newly digitized recordings is also available.
Finding Aid to the Firing Line Broadcast Records Posted Online
June 17, 2009
A guide to the paper documents in the Firing Line broadcast collection is available online.
New Increment of the Papers of Friedrich von Hayek Arrives at the Hoover Institution Archives
June 3, 2009
Some of the last remaining papers of the economist and Nobel laureate Friedrich von Hayek (1899–1992) arrived at the Hoover Institution Archives in May.
July 2, 2009
New Education Next Forum: Is There a Connection between School Spending and Student Achievement? Should Courts Decide?
U. S. Supreme Court decision puts issue on front burner for states. Read the full article, Many Schools Are Still Inadequate, by Eric Hanushek, Alfred Lindseth and Michael Rebell.
July 1, 2009
Hoover research fellow David Davenport is interviewed on PJTV
David Davenport, a counselor to the director for external relations and a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, discusses California’s Fiscal Crisis.
July 1, 2009
George Shultz and David O’Reilly talk energy policy
George P. Shultz, the Thomas W. and Susan B. Ford Distinguished Fellow at the Hoover Institution, discusses energy policy with David O’Reilly
June 29, 2009
Hoover research fellow William Ratliff is interviewed on KCBS
William Ratliff, a research fellow and curator of the Americas Collection at the Hoover Institution, explains why the events in Honduras were not a coup but legal and based on Honduras’ constitution.