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A One-Time Tax With Lasting Effects
Why billionaires are leaving in response to a proposed one-time wealth tax, and why the resulting income tax losses belong in the fiscal score.
What Californians Really Want
As Election Day nears, voters aren’t clamoring for higher taxes or spending. A new poll shows surprising overlap with others across America.
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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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Core Institutional Priorities
Featured Fellows
Dan Berkenstock
Distinguished Research Fellow
Thomas Dee
Robert and Marion Oster Senior Fellow (joint)
Jonathan Gienapp
Research Fellow
Philip Zelikow
Botha-Chan Senior Fellow
Eric Wakin
Deputy Director/ Everett and Jane Hauck Director of Library & Archives | Research Fellow
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Keeping A Cold War Chilled: Mobilizing the Modern Defense Industrial Base
In a new century defined by another great-power competition, how does the United States match China in terms of integrating defense needs with its technological and industrial capacities?
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Why K-12 Public School Enrollments Dropped In 40 States
Hoover Institution fellow Thomas Dee found that changing demographics or transitions to private or homeschools didn’t account for about one-third of the 1.2 million students who exited public schools after the pandemic.
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America's Promissory Note
Hoover Institution fellow Jonathan Gienapp discusses the Declaration of Independence’s historical context and emphasizes that the document’s immediate purpose was political: to justify revolution and to define legitimate liberty as non-domination—being governed by laws made with genuine representation and consent rather than by an alien will.
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American Energy: The Key To Success In the Digital Revolution
What can America do to win the culminating phase of the digital revolution before rivals like China decide who powers the AI age?
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Lives That Defied Tyranny
Choosing Freedom, a new exhibition, features courageous figures like Victor Herman, an American trapped in the USSR.
FEATURED PUBLICATIONS
Strategika
An online journal that analyzes ongoing issues of national security in light of conflicts of the past.
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Does Attacking Civilian Infrastructure Weaken or Strengthen a Hostile Regime and Population?
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
France’s Political Tumult, Europe’s Strategic Challenges
Former French Ambassador to the US, Philippe Étienne and H.R. McMaster discuss the rise of the far right, France’s economic challenges, the future of European security, and the 2027 French presidential election.
China, The US, And The Contest For The Indo-Pacific
Elizabeth Economy and Isaac Kardon assess China’s Indo-Pacific ambitions and America’s alliances.
The Counter Revolution, Part Two: Victor Davis Hanson On The Fall And Rise Of Trump
Peter Robinson speaks with Victor Davis Hanson about Donald Trump’s second term.
Space: The Crowded Frontier
Thousands of satellites crowd Earth’s low orbit, risking cascading debris, crippled global services, and even geopolitical tensions. The time is now for America to lead the way and turn a crowded and chaotic low-earth orbit into something manageable through the deployment of coordinated, autonomous swarm satellites.
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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