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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
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.
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Defense Budgeting for a Safer World: The Experts Speak
Renowned experts on national security and the defense budget share ideas, perspectives, and solutions for budget reform to ensure its adequacy and flexibility for the current complex geopolitical environment.
Effect of Organizations on MD Prescribing: Case of Opioids
An examination of the effect of three aspects of MD organizational form on opioid prescribing: the number of MDs in the physician’s group; the physician’s integration with or employment by a hospital or hospital system; and the average age of the other physicians in the physician’s group.
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HOOVER FELLOWS ON HAMAS’S TERRORIST ATTACK AGAINST ISRAEL
Peter Berkowitz
Antisemitism, Multiculturalism, and Barbarism
The enormity of Hamas’ 10/7 mass atrocities breaks the heart and scorches the mind. Or so a person of ordinary human decency would think.
Abraham D. Sofaer
Don’t let Hamas derail Saudi-Israeli normalization
The chaos set off by Hamas’s brutal attack on Israel poses difficult challenges for the future of the Middle East.
Andrew Roberts
Israel’s Challenge in Responding to a Brutal Surprise Attack
Hamas staged a shockingly successful operation against the Jewish state, but history shows that wars are seldom won by such tactics.
Russell A. Berman
Israel’s War With Hamas Will Ripple Across the Region and the West
The Hamas attack of Oct. 7 has shattered the self-confidence of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).
Amy Zegart
Israel’s Intelligence Disaster
How the Security Establishment Could Have Underestimated the Hamas Threat
Cole Bunzel
Gaza and Global Jihad
Why the Hamas-Israel War Is Unlikely to Revive ISIS and al Qaeda.
Victor Davis Hanson
Does Iran Realize Its Own Growing Danger?
Iranians have little clue they are one stupid missile volley, or one reckless intervention away from a devastating Western response
Commentary on the News
Consequences Matter: Thomas Sowell On “Social Justice Fallacies”
Thomas Sowell, age 93, is the Rose and Milton Friedman Senior Fellow on Public Policy at the Hoover Institution. With his usual fierceness and feistiness intact, Dr. Sowell returns to Uncommon…
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Core Institutional Priorities
Featured Fellows
Norman M. Naimark
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Steven Koonin
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Michael McConnell
Senior Fellow
Bruce Thornton
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Michael S. Bernstam
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Steadying Israel By Recalibrating The Separation Of Powers
On Sept. 12, all 15 judges of Israel’s supreme court – never before has the full complement of high-court judges sat as one body – are scheduled to hear challenges to the contentious legislation enacted in July by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s governing coalition.
September 10, 2023
Peter Berkowitz
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From The Washington Treaty To Vilnius: How Blowback In The Kremlin Helped Make NATO The Most Powerful Military Alliance In The World
International organizations can fade or grow in importance, depending on how they meet shifting challenges in their history.
July 12, 2023
Norman M. Naimark
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How California’s Homeless Problem Became Intractable
California governor Gavin Newsom sharply criticized a judge’s recent injunction that prevents San Francisco from clearing homeless encampments within the city, calling the injunction “preposterous” and “inhumane.”
September 8, 2023
Lee Ohanian
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Hot Or Not: Steven Koonin Questions Conventional Climate Science And Methodology
Steven Koonin is one of America's most distinguished scientists, with decades of experience, including a stint as undersecretary of science at the Department of Energy in the Obama administration.
August 21, 2023
interview Steven Koonin
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Michael McConnell Discusses Agreeing To Disagree On The Bookmonger Podcast
Hoover Institution fellow Michael McConnell discusses his book Agreeing to Disagree: How the Establishment Clause Protects Religious Diversity and Freedom of Conscience (Inalienable Rights).
August 23, 2023
interview Michael McConnell
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Are These Our Locust Years?
The “locust years” was how Winston Churchill described the Thirties, the decade that started with the Great Depression and ended with Germany’s invasion of Poland that sparked the most destructive war in history.
August 30, 2023
Bruce Thornton
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Sanctions And Russia: Effects, Lessons, And The Future | A History Lab Discussion W/ Stephen Kotkin
A Hoover History Lab Discussion between Kleinheinz Senior Fellow Stephen Kotkin, Research Fellow Michael S. Bernstam, and Sergei Guriev, provost and professor of economics at the Institut d'études politiques de Paris (Sciences Po).
August 25, 2023
interview Stephen Kotkin
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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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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