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2023 | The Hoover Institution Year-in-review
The Year-in-Review
The 2023 Annual Report
Review the activities of the Hoover Institution over the past year, a period that Director Condoleezza Rice called “the most uncertain geopolitical environment since the beginning of the Soviet Union’s collapse.”
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Hoover Scholars On The Issues In 2023
The year 2023 again saw the world mired in various geopolitical crises. In these challenging times, Hoover fellows offered thorough analyses on a wide variety of trends.
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Notable Events in 2023
A series of landmark reports and new programs addressing global and domestic challenges launched in 2023.
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Books by Hoover Fellows in 2023
The depth of Hoover’s scholarship is reflected in the numerous books published by our fellows on a broad variety of topics and issues.
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Library & Archives 2023 Year in Review
A reflection on our commitment to preserving history, advancing scholarship, and building connections to our collections on campus and online.
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Testimonies by Hoover Fellows in 2023
Fellow testimonies in 2023 to various legislative bodies, including the US Senate and House of Representatives, state houses, and the United Kingdom’s Parliament.
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Featured Multimedia For 2023
Explore highlights from the year's video and podcast series as 2023 concludes.
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40 Years After ‘A Nation At Risk’: What Worked, And Meeting The Challenges Ahead
Forty years ago, the release of A Nation at Risk (ANAR) led to what is known today as the modern school reform movement. In a new series of papers from the Hoover Institution, a dozen scholars examine the reforms enacted over the past four decades, focusing on the impact of these efforts, digging into the evidence base and providing lessons for today’s education policymakers.
via The 74 Million
Confronting America’s Crisis In Trust
Hoover Institution fellow Brandice Canes-Wrone discusses the mission of the Center for Revitalizing American Institutions and why it is important.
via Defining Ideas
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MyHoover delivers a personalized experience at Hoover.org. In a few easy steps, create an account and receive the most recent analysis from Hoover fellows tailored to your specific policy interests.
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Stanford Emerging Technology Review Launches with Public Event Featuring Leading University Officials and Tech Experts
The Stanford Emerging Technology Review, an ambitious university-wide initiative dedicated to fostering a greater understanding among policymakers, industry leaders, and the attentive public about the breakthroughs and policy implications of frontier technologies shaping societies and economies, launched with a public event on the Stanford campus.
2023 Survey Of Investors, Retirement Savings, And ESG
Support for ESG falls precipitously year-over-year, particularly among young and middle-aged investors. Older investors continue to overwhelmingly oppose the idea of fund managers using their size and voting power to advocate for environmental or social change. Young investors are much less willing to accept a decline in the value of their investments to advance a range of issues, such as climate change, renewable energy, workplace diversity, and gender pay inequity.
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MyHoover delivers a personalized experience at Hoover.org. In a few easy steps, create an account and receive the most recent analysis from Hoover fellows tailored to your specific policy interests.
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Commentary on the News
Michael McConnell: Insurrection And The 14th Amendment
Hoover Institution fellow Michael McConnell debates the 14th amendment’s insurrection clause, and how it relates to former President Trump’s role in the events that took place on January 6, 2021.
via The Federalist Society
Core Institutional Priorities
Featured Fellows
Condoleezza Rice
Tad and Dianne Taube Director | Thomas and Barbara Stephenson Senior Fellow on Public Policy
Eugene Volokh
Visiting Fellow
Peter Blair Henry
Class of 1984 Senior Fellow
Ross Levine
Senior Fellow
Brandice Canes-Wrone
Maurice R. Greenberg Senior Fellow | Director of the Center for Revitalizing American Institutions
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Stanford Aims To Help Policy Makers Prepare For AI, Robotics And More
A new project from Stanford University aims to help policymakers get their heads around a range of fast-developing new technologies, from AI and cryptography to robotics and synthetic biology.
December 11, 2023
featuring Herbert Lin
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Opinion: The Trouble With Congress Or College Presidents Policing Free Speech On Campuses
On Tuesday, the presidents of Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology testified at a congressional hearing on “Holding Campus Leaders Accountable and Confronting Antisemitism.”
December 10, 2023
Eugene Volokh
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Data to Live By
Investment in Africa has long been scattershot and ineffective. The reason: a lack of good data about how the investment would pay off. The World Bank can fix that problem.
November 1, 2023
Jendayi Frazer
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Competition, Stability, and Efficiency in the Banking Industry
We provide a tractable dynamic model of the banking industry where (1) an intensification of competition increases market measures of efficiency and fragility of banks but not necessarily social measures of efficiency; (2) economies can avoid the fragility costs of competition by enhancing bank governance and tightening leverage requirements; and (3) bank competition materially shapes risk taking and the monetary transmission mechanism.
September 2, 2023
Ross Levine
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Niall Ferguson: The Treason Of The Intellectuals
Anyone who has a naive belief in the power of higher education to instill morality has not studied the history of German universities in the Third Reich.
December 10, 2023
Niall Ferguson
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Opening Remarks From The State of American Institutions Conference
Trust across many US governmental and nongovernmental institutions has declined dramatically over the past decades.
December 1, 2023
Brandice Canes-Wrone
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Introducing The Stanford Emerging Technology Review
The start of a journey to understand, explain, and use tomorrow’s transformational tech.
November 14, 2023
Condoleezza Rice
FEATURED PUBLICATIONS
Strategika
An online journal that analyzes ongoing issues of national security in light of conflicts of the past.
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The Caravan
The Caravan is a quarterly publication on the contemporary dilemmas of the Greater Middle East
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California on Your Mind
Analysis, politics, and the economics of the Golden State
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More Videos & Podcasts
The World According To China With Elizabeth Economy
Dr. Economy is the author of half a dozen books, including her most recent volume, The World According to China. She has just returned to Hoover after a two-year leave of absence in Washington, where she served as senior advisor for China to Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo.
Michael Boskin: Defense Budgeting For A Safer World
Budgeting for two “hot” wars plus “Cold War 2.0" with China.
War, Tribe, And Freedom: A Conversation With Sebastian Junger
In this episode of Battlegrounds, H.R. McMaster and Sebastian Junger discuss the necessity of unity, the importance of the tribe, and the future of American democracy, Wednesday, November 8, 2023.
NATO's Enduring Value
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has proven its enduring value and necessity through its unified support of Ukraine against Russia's invasion, its historic role in securing peace in Europe, and its continued ability to expand and strengthen, as evidenced by the recent addition of Finland and Sweden.
Library & Archives
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.
Exhibitions | Now On View
The exhibitions Dynamic Design: Transforming Posters at Hoover (June 28–December 20, 2023) 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.
Learn MoreThe 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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