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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.
Hoover Institution Launches The Sowell Legacy, a New Multimedia Series on Thomas Sowell's Life, Ideas, and Influence
On Thursday, July 30, the Hoover Institution will premiere The Sowell Legacy, a richly produced original series combining conversations, archival footage, photography, animation, and visually story telling on the life, work, and enduring influence of one of America's most consequential economists and public intellectuals, the inimitable Thomas Sowell.
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Applications are now open for the 2026 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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Eugene Volokh
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Shrexting: Free Speech Or Criminal Harassment?
Eugene Volokh and Jane Bambauer use a bizarre case involving a sexually explicit Shrek image sent to a politician to explore the difficult constitutional line between protected speech and criminal harassment in the digital age.
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National Treasure: How The Declaration Of Independence Shaped America | Michael Auslin
Hoover Institution fellow Raghuram Rajan discusses the severe headwinds caused by the prolonged conflict in West Asia, and emphasizes the urgent need for structural reforms, better job creation strategies for the youth, and increased investment in human capital to compete globally.
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Darrell Duffie: Curbing Demand For Reserves Key To Reducing Fed's Balance Sheet
Hoover Institution fellow Darrell Duffie says the Fed won't use balance sheet to conduct monetary policy. Duffie explains that the connection between the availability of reserves and market interest rates is only relevant when reserves are scarce. Duffie notes that in today’s environment, there are abundant reserves.
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China-Maxxing, Subsidies, And Taiwan Arms Sales
This week was the 37th anniversary of the massacre of Chinese students and citizens in Tiananmen Square by the Chinese Communist Party.
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Hidden Threads
Scientists have often overlooked the deep connections across the natural world. Could we find a wiser way to enhance our scientific judgments?
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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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Singapore: Strategy In An Age Of Great Power Competition
100th Episode of Today's Battlegrounds: H.R. McMaster and Vivian Balakrishnan discuss how Singapore is charting its own strategy amid great-power competition, the future of the US–Singapore strategic partnership in advancing regional security, and how the United States and its partners can preserve a free and open Indo-Pacific.
Grover Norquist On Reagan-Bush-Trump Tax Reforms And America’s Fiscal Future
Grover Norquist on his career, founding Americans for Tax Reform (ATR), the history of tax reform from Reagan through Trump, taxes versus spending, as well as the future of American tax reform and public debt.
Make IPOs Great Again: SEC Chairman Paul Atkins On Ending Regulation By Enforcement
"America was an investment before it was a nation." That idea anchors this conversation between SEC Chairman Paul Atkins and Peter Robinson.
(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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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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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