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May 7, 2013
In The Illusion of Net Neutrality, Bob Zelnick & Eva Zelnick Defend the Internet against the Potentially Growth-Stunting Effects of Government Regulation
Hoover Institution Press today released The Illusion of Net Neutrality: Political Alarmism, Regulatory Creep, and the Real Threat to Internet Freedom, by Bob Zelnick and Eva Zelnick. In this book, the authors examine the ongoing battle between private industry and government regulators for ownership and control of the Internet.
May 6, 2013
Hoover Institution Launches Strategika, an Online Journal Analyzing Contemporary National Security Issues from a Historical Perspective
The Hoover Institution launched today a new online journal, Strategika, which assesses ongoing issues of national security in light of conflicts of the past. Strategika is published by Hoover’s newly convened Working Group on the Role of Military History in Contemporary Conflict, which examines how historical military operations intersect with contemporary public policy decisions concerning prevailing conflicts.
April 15, 2013
Hoover Releases Third Edition of Perjury: The Hiss-Chambers Case, Featuring New Material on One of Nation’s Most Controversial Espionage Cases
Hoover Institution Press today released the third edition of Perjury: The Hiss-Chambers Case by Allen Weinstein. Perjury, the definitive account of the trial of former State Department and UN official Alger Hiss, was first published in 1978.
March 7, 2013
Hoover Institution’s Uncommon Knowledge with Peter Robinson to Run Exclusively on WallStreetJournal.com
The Hoover Institution today announced that its long-standing television/web series, Uncommon Knowledge with Peter Robinson, a forum for scholars, political leaders, journalists, and newsmakers to share their views with host and former presidential speechwriter Peter Robinson, will now run exclusively on the Wall Street Journal’s opinion page and on OpinionJournal.com.
February 12, 2013
Constitutional Conservatism: Liberty, Self-Government, and Political Moderation by Hoover fellow Peter Berkowitz
Hoover Institution Press released Constitutional Conservatism: Liberty, Self-Government, and Political Moderation, by Peter Berkowitz. Berkowitz contends that constitutional conservatism encompasses a distinguished tradition of defending liberty that stretches from the great eighteenth century British statesman Edmund Burke through the authoritative exposition of the Constitution in The Federalist to the high points of post-World War II American conservatism.
February 1, 2013
Hoover Institution Publication Policy Review to End its Run
Hoover Institution Director John Raisian and Research Fellow Tod Lindberg, editor of Policy Review, announced today that following the February-March 2013 edition, Hoover’s bimonthly journal will cease publication.
December 12, 2012
Hoover Institution Education Experts Identify News Media Hits and Misses in 2012 Education Coverage
After a close analysis of education coverage in the general news media during 2012, the Hoover Institution’s Koret Task Force on K–12 Education today released its list of the five most covered stories (“hits”) and the five most important but neglected stories (“misses”).
October 24, 2012
In The Best Teachers in the World: Why We Don’t Have Them and How We Could, Education Expert John Chubb Proposes Raising Student Achievement by Raising Teacher Quality
Hoover Institution Press released The Best Teachers in the World: Why We Don’t Have Them and How We Could in which author John E. Chubb outlines a three-pronged strategy for raising teacher quality that is very different from the approach this country has historically followed. Chubb argues that, to develop the highest-achieving students in the world, the United States must attract, develop, and retain substantially stronger teachers, particularly if it wants to equal or surpass the achievement of top-performing nations in the world. The best achievement in the world requires the best teachers in the world—which US education policy has not been delivering.
October 23, 2012
In Entitlement Spending: Our Coming Fiscal Tsunami, author David Koitz Warns of Our Nation’s Impending Fiscal Crisis
Hoover Institution Press released Entitlement Spending: Our Coming Fiscal Tsunami, by David Koitz. Although the nation’s largest entitlement programs—Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security—are perceived as pillars of our governmental safety net, Koitz argues that those programs are actually the largest drivers of a severe and impending fiscal crisis.