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Condoleezza Rice: We Haven't Seen This Scale Of Brutality, Barbarity In A Long Time
Hoover Institution Director Condoleezza Rice discusses the terror attacks on Israel.
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Offering Higher Pay To The Best Teachers Results In Massive Improvements In Disadvantaged Students' Performance
A new working paper on how the efforts to attract and retain effective educators in high poverty public schools have had limited success.
Economist Steven J. Davis To Join The Hoover Institution As Thomas W. And Susan B. Ford Senior Fellow
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Hoover Institution And Asia Society Release Groundbreaking Report On Semiconductor Security
A groundbreaking report on semiconductor security from the Hoover Institution, in partnership with the Asia Society’s Center on U.S.-China Relations, Silicon Triangle: The United States, Taiwan, China, and Global Semiconductor Security.
‘Wahhābism’ By Cole M. Bunzel is groundbreaking | A Review
Wahhabism, the form of Islam notionally predominant in Saudi Arabia, was almost unknown in the West except among a few specialists. Academic attention has begun to focus on Wahhabism, but we have had to wait until now for a thorough treatment of its history and theology, which finally appears in Cole Bunzel’s Wahhābism: The History of a Militant Islamic Movement.
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HOOVER FELLOWS ON HAMAS’S TERRORIST ATTACK AGAINST ISRAEL
Peter Berkowitz
What’s Next For Israel
As Israel prosecutes its just war of self-defense against Hamas barbarism, three considerations should be kept in mind.
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).
Victor Davis Hanson
A 50th anniversary war?
The United States must stop the Biden State Department madness, back Israel to the hilt and stare down Iran.
Amy Zegart
Israel’s Intelligence Disaster
How the Security Establishment Could Have Underestimated the Hamas Threat
Sumit Ganguly
Modi’s Comments on Israel-Gaza War Signal Shift
Forthrightly expressing solidarity with Israel, India steps away from a long-held approach toward the Palestinians.
India, Israel, and the Israel-Gaza War
Kiron Skinner
The Hamas Attack is a Test for Biden’s Foreign Policy
The White House needs realism, not idealism, to deter Iran, Russia, and China.
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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Steven Koonin
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Michael McConnell
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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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AI And A-Bombs: Is Everything A-Okay?
On the 78th anniversary of the only wartime use of nuclear weapons, is the human race at another moral crossroads, fearing what artificial intelligence (AI) breakthroughs might unleash?
Inflation, Disinflation, And Spending: When Fiscal And Monetary Worlds Collide
The good news: inflation isn’t what it was a year ago. The bad news: Americans still pay more for shelter, food, and energy – and they may hold lawmakers accountable for the high costs in the next election.
Labor Pains: The UAW Tests The Auto Maker’s Limits
How reasonable are the demands of the United Auto Workers striking at automobile plants?
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.
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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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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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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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