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Tom Siebel On Education, Reinvention, And The AI Revolution
Tom Siebel joins Condoleezza Rice to discuss the enduring foundations of American exceptionalism, the AI revolution, overcoming extraordinary personal adversity, and why he believes America's greatest days still lie ahead.
Thomas Sowell Legacy: A Conversation with Justice Clarence Thomas
Justice Clarence Thomas reflects on the ideas, friendship, and intellectual courage of Thomas Sowell—and the enduring importance of thinking for oneself.
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2027 Fellowship Opportunities
Applications are now open for the 2027 Hoover Fellowship Programs with opportunities for early- to mid-career scholars. For more information on the Hoover Fellows program and National Fellows program, click the links below.
Commentary on the News
The Billionaire Wealth Tax: A Recipe For Economic Disaster
California’s proposed Billionaire Tax Act would impose a “one-time” 5% tax on the worldwide net worth of individuals with more than $1 billion in assets. Supporters estimate it could raise roughly…
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Featured Fellows
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Dan Wang: The Architect Of Modern China
Hoover Institution fellow Dan Wang discusses the leadership and accomplishments of Deng Xiaoping.
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(Space) Safety First: Simone D’Amico On Safeguarding Earth’s Lower Orbit
Outer space isn’t as empty as you might imagine – especially the low-orbiting space around Planet Earth heavily populated by orbiting satellites and space debris. Hoover Institution science fellow Simone D’Amico discusses how to make the “space highway” safer, more secure, and its platforms more sustainable.
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Trump Is Changing The Relationship With China: Elizabeth Economy
Hoover Institution fellow Elizabeth Economy says President Trump is fundamentally changing the US relationship with China.
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Team Player: Bill Whalen On John Dickinson
The “Penman of the Revolution” whose ideas were mightier than the musket.
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The Trump Doctrine: America’s Role In The World
The Trump Doctrine challenges long-standing assumptions about America’s role in the world, offering a new framework for US foreign policy centered on sovereignty, reciprocity, alliance burden-sharing, and strategic competition with China.
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
Can Palantir And AI Transform The UK For The Better?
Palantir UK chief Louis Mosley joins Secrets of Statecraft to discuss how the company’s technology is transforming warfare, healthcare, and policing.
California Update: Homelessness, Billionaire Battles, And “Sussex-it”
Why the Golden State’s homelessness problem remains a chronic headache; divisions within the ranks of billionaires financing the effort to defeat the Proposition 40 wealth tax; the odds of Paramount CEO David Ellison relocating his company to a friendlier red state. Plus why Harry and Megan are giving up on their California Dream.
What Does 250 Years Of War Teach Us About American Strategy?
From the Revolution to today’s global challenges, the lessons of American power.
Sweden: Rebuilding Total Defense
H.R. McMaster and Minister Carl-Oskar Bohlin discuss Sweden's approach to civil defense, Nordic-Baltic security cooperation, and how Sweden is strengthening NATO to improve deterrence in the High North.
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
The exhibitions Eastern Europe and Beyond: Photographic Albums Revealed (September 9, 2025–May 10, 2026) 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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Acquiring, preserving, and making accessible collections of enduring value, including more than one million library volumes and over six thousand archival collections.
Digital Collections
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
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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