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Seeking to improve the human condition by advancing ideas that promote economic opportunity and prosperity while securing and safeguarding peace for America and all mankind.

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Changing The Landscape For New Nuclear Power
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A Fresh Look At The Russian Assets: A Proposal For International Resolution Of Sanctioned Accounts
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Ours to Solve - Once, and For All | Securing the Outcomes Our Students Need
By Education Futures Council

via The Education Futures Council

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Defense Against The AI Dark Arts: Threat Assessment And Coalition Defense
By Philip Zelikow, Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar, Eric Schmidt, Jason Matheny

via Hoover Daily Report

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American Federalism Today
American Federalism Today: Perspectives on Political and Economic Governance  by Michael J. Boskin (ed.)
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The Boiling Moat: Urgent Steps to Defend Taiwan
The Boiling Moat: Urgent Steps to Defend Taiwan
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A Republic, If We Can Teach It: Fixing America's Civic Education Crisis
By David Davenport, Jeffrey Sikkenga

via Republic Book Publishers

A Republic, If We Can Teach It: Fixing America's Civic Education Crisis
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A Nation At Risk +40

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Revitalizing the House: Bipartisan Recommendations on Rules and Process
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2025 Hoover Programs

Applications are now open for 2025 Hoover programs. For more information, click the links below.

Core Institutional Priorities
FEATURED PUBLICATIONS
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Strategika

Strategika

An online journal that analyzes ongoing issues of national security in light of conflicts of the past.

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A Cultural Decline In Defending America
By Owen West, Kevin Wallsten

via Strategika

Strategika Issue 96
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Articles
Saving Private Ryan
Strategika Issue 96
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The Caravan

The Caravan

The Caravan is a quarterly publication on the contemporary dilemmas of the Greater Middle East

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From The Hamas Attack Of October 7 Toward A New Middle East
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The Implications Of Iran’s Failed Proxy Strategy
By Bernard Haykel

via The Caravan

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California on Your Mind

California on Your Mind

Analysis, politics, and the economics of the Golden State

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Apocalypse In The City Of Angels: What Might Have Been So Different
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As The World Turns—And Burns—In California
Karen Bass and Gavin Newsom

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Joe Lonsdale

Productivity, Innovation, And The New American Golden Age With Joe Lonsdale

Jon Hartley and Joe Lonsdale discuss Joe’s career, co-founding Palantir, Addepar, OpenGov, and the University of Austin, venture capital investing, DOGE, defense tech, fin tech, education, regulation and the prospects for generative artificial intelligence.

Factual Foundations

What We Know About Teachers And School Choice Featuring Paul E. Peterson

Part 2 of 2 | Hoover Institution fellow Paul Peterson examines how outdated teacher pay systems reward credentials over classroom results, while exploring charter schools' emerging success in urban education.

GoodFellows

Big Deal: Davos Man Returns; Colombia’s Social Media Smackdown; Is DeepSink AI’s “Sputnik Moment”?

A week into Donald Trump’s “second first term,” the GoodFellows drink from the proverbial fire hose trying to keep up with the news.

Secrets of Statecraft | Jon Meacham

Jon Meacham On What Makes A Great President

America’s foremost presidential historian examines the motivations and careers of Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and George H. W. Bush. 

Library & Archives
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A World-Class Library & Archives

Founded by Herbert Hoover in 1919, the Hoover Institution Library & Archives is home to some of the world's most renowned collections documenting war, revolution, peace, and political, economic, and social change in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. 

Free and open to all, discover how to search the collections, arrange a research visit, or explore exhibitions by clicking below.

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Exhibitions | Now On View

The exhibitions Un-Presidented: Watergate and Power in America (February 12–August 11, 2024) and Hoover@100: Ideas Defining A Century (ongoing) are open and free to all visitors to Hoover Tower, at the heart of Stanford University campus.

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Research Services

Planning an onsite visit to the reading room? Conducting your research from afar? Staff are ready to connect you with the most relevant materials through reference consultations, assisting with registration and material requests, digitization, and more.

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The Collections

Acquiring, preserving, and making accessible collections of enduring value, including more than one million library volumes and over six thousand archival collections.

Digital First Initiative

Our aim is to make full archival collections accessible to researchers around the world through the digitization of textual, graphical, sound, and moving-image materials.

Engagement & Outreach

Building connections to our collections by sparking curiosity in audiences interested in the meaning and role of history through exhibitions, classes, tours, and special programing.

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Fifty years ago this week, future prime minister (and Hoover honorary fellow) Margaret Thatcher was chosen to lead the U.K.’s Conservative Party. A favorite Thatcher quote

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