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Gorbachev And The Hoover Institution
Hoover Institution director Condoleezza Rice reflects on Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev’s visits to the Stanford campus in 1990 and 1992 and his special connection to the Hoover Institution and its Library & Archives.
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The Hoover Institution Joins NSF-Backed SECURE Initiative To Support Research Security, International Collaboration
Today, the US National Science Foundation (NSF) announced a five-year $67 million investment establishing Safeguarding the Entire Community of the US Research Ecosystem (SECURE) ($50 million to University of Washington & $17 million to Texas A&M University), as mandated in the "CHIPS and Science Act of 2022."
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Issues Affecting American Democracy | Elections 2024
To help inform citizens as they gear up for the 2024 elections, the Hoover Institution is offering "Issues Affecting American Democracy," a non-partisan compendium of fellows' insights into key policy issues. A few recent highlights are featured below. Click the button below to explore more content.
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Lessons Of The Trump Assassination Attempt
[Subscription Required] The world sees a strong American leader even amid ominous division.
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Israel And The Next US Administration
According to an oft-repeated Israeli story from the 1960s, when an aide mentioned a drought, Prime Minister Levi Eshkol worriedly asked, “Where? “In the Negev,” explained the aide. “Thank God it’s not in the US, then I’d be really concerned,” said Eshkol.
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Keeping Rental Markets Safe
The Biden administration wants to weaponize the tax code to impose sweeping rent control.
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Lanhee Chen: Why Trump Chose 'MAGA Warrior Vance' As His Running Mate
Hoover Institution fellow Lanhee Chen discusses why former President Trump's picked JD Vance for his vice-president.
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Lessons From Lincoln, Then And Now (With Diana Schaub)
What lessons can we take from the speeches of Abraham Lincoln for today's turbulent times? How did those speeches move the nation in Lincoln's day? Listen as political scientist Diana Schaub of Loyola University, Maryland talks with EconTalk's Russ Roberts about three of Lincoln's most important speeches and what they can tell us about the United States then and now.
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A Republic, If We Can Teach It: Fixing America's Civic Education Crisis
The Civic Education Crisis: How We Got Here, What We Must Do is a call to action, an effort to save our republic through better civic education. America faces a crisis in civic education that imperils the long-term health of the country.
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Quantum Computing Must Remain At Forefront Of National Security Efforts
Artificial Intelligence, otherwise known as AI, is the technology topic de jour, having overshadowed quantum computing as what to discuss when showing off defense technology chops. All will…
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Unburdened By What Has Been
An already surreal political year becomes all the more quizzical as former president Donald Trump literally dodges an assassin’s bullet soon before making a surprise pick of Ohio senator J. D. Vance as his running mate.
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Recorded on June 4, 2024. Lord Hannan draws on his 21 years as a member of the European Parliament for this scholarly and masterly overview of world affairs.
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The exhibitions Un-Presidented: Watergate and Power in America (February 12–August 11, 2024) 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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