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A speechwriter remembers Reagan’s freedom callIn 1987, President Reagan stood before the Berlin Wall and addressed a challenge to the general secretary of the Soviet Union: “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this Wall!” More than twenty years later, Hoover fellow Peter Robinson, who drafted the historic address, tells how the speech came about.
(Photo - historic piece of the Berlin Wall located at Hoover)
Condoleezza Rice speaks of humble beginnings to a packed ballroomAs a young black girl growing up in one of the most segregated states in the South, Condoleezza Rice knows a thing or two about rising from humble beginnings.
Seminar featuring Hoover senior fellow Morris FiorinaOn November 5, Morris Fiorina gave a talk titled “The 2008 Elections and the Status of the Republican Party” at a Hoover forum on politics, economics, and society.
1989 changed the world. But where now for Europe?
Guardian (UK), November 4, 2009
by Timothy Garton Ash
Year of revolutions: Mired in the narcissism of minor difference, Europe is failing to face up to the world its revolution helped to create...
Afghan Mythologies
Tribune Media Services, November 5, 2009
by Victor Davis Hanson
As President Obama decides whether to send more troops to Afghanistan, we should remember that most of the conventional pessimism about Afghanistan is only half-truth...
America The Indispensable
Forbes, November 3, 2009
by Thomas H. Henriksen
The Berlin Wall collapsed amid a failed faith in communism and exalted hopes for a world free of rivalries and conflicts...
The “Costs” of Medical Care
Creators Syndicate, November 3, 2009
by Thomas Sowell
We are incessantly being told that the cost of medical care is “too high”—either absolutely or as a growing percentage of our incomes...
1. East Asia
2. Condoleezza Rice
3. Russia/CIS
4. The Flat Tax
5. How to Cure Health Care
6. Power and Weakness
7. The Case for Free Trade
8. The World War II Diaries of General Joseph W. Stilwell (1941–1945)
9. Education and Capitalism: How Overcoming Our Fear of Markets and Economics Can Improve America's Schools
10. Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
Jazz at Liberty
November 3, 2009
Recently I asked a colleague, “How many times have you gone looking for John Kennedy’s speech at the Brandenburg Gate and wound up listening to Phil Woods blowing sax?”
Hoover Institution acquires Melita Norwood papers
November 2, 2009
Kim Philby was part of the Cambridge Five, who were arguably the most notorious Soviet spies operating in Great Britain from the 1930s through the 1950s.
Hero Land
October 28, 2009
Working with Hoover’s poster collection, I came across a poster with a striking image of a bazaar and “Hero Land” in a huge typeface reminiscent of a movie poster, illustrated by J. Carl Mueller.
Landslide—a portrait of President Herbert Hoover on PBS
October 23, 2009
This documentary explores the facts and fictions behind the presidency of Herbert Hoover, including the Great Depression and its lasting impact on government.
November 6, 2009
Hoover research fellow Abbas Milani in Symposium on Iran
Hoover research fellow Abbas Milani joined other top Iran experts from across the United States in a symposium to assess Iran’s position domestically and internationally.
November 5, 2009
We of little faith
Hoover senior fellow Niall Ferguson discusses the financial crisis, the dollar, the FDIC, and the road ahead.
November 5, 2009
Fueled by a federal stimulus package, education spending will likely increase over the next decade despite a lack of achievement gains for students
Despite an economic downturn and new data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) released last month that shows no learning gains in math for American 4th graders…
November 5, 2009
Reason foundation co-founder Tibor Machan discusses Ayn Rand
Tibor Machan is one of the founding partners in Reason Enterprises and a research fellow at the Hoover Institution. He discusses Ayn Rand, free societies, and capitalism on Reason.tv.