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The Hoover Institution was founded by an extraordinary individual, Herbert Hoover. Orphaned at the age of ten, at seventeen, Hoover joined four hundred students @Stanford for inaugural ceremonies that opened the university on October 1, 1891. After graduating in Stanford's pioneer class in 1895, he would go on to become a successful mining engineer, generous benefactor, well-known humanitarian, prominent statesman, and president of the United States. Learn more about the remarkable life he led and the history of our institution at the link in our bio. #HooverInstitution #Stanford #HooverDC #WashingtonDC #history #PresidentsDay Herbert and Lou Henry Hoover with Lou’s sister and parents on their wedding day in 1899 in Monterey, CA. The two met @Stanford, where both were students. Herbert would eventually propose to her by cable from Australia where he was managing mines, and the day after marrying boarded a ship to China where they began a life together full of adventure and contributions to the world. ❤️ #HooverInstitution #Stanford #HooverDC #WashingtonDC #history #Valentines #ValentinesDay “Prior to European contact, indigenous economies were based on institutions that allowed American Indians to thrive rather than simply survive. . . .  though today’s Native Americans are one of today’s poorest American minorities, they were not poor under ‘old indigenous economies’,” writes Hoover Institution Senior Fellow Terry Anderson. “The emphasis on language, culture, art, and religion is integral to Native American heritage. But Native American heritage is not just about language and song; that heritage is also about the institutions that once governed and even now could help govern Native American daily lives.” Anderson’s latest work aims at providing a better understanding of how Native American heritage can serve as a foundation on which tribes can renew their economies with far less dependence on the “siren call of federal handouts.” “Native American history prior to European contact is replete with examples of how indigenous jurisdiction and governance structures allowed Native Americans to go beyond survival to achieve prosperity.” Article available at the link in bio. #HooverInstitution #Stanford #HooverDC #WashingtonDC (📷: @patrickbeaudouin) “America seemingly no longer believes in striving to achieve a gender-blind, racially and religiously mixed society, but instead is becoming a nation in which tribal identity trumps all other considerations,” writes historian and Hoover Institution Senior Fellow Victor Davis Hanson. “What once helped to diminish ancient prejudices was the American creed that no one had a right to discriminate against fellow citizens on the basis of race, gender, class or religion. And what fuels the return of American bias is the new idea that citizens can disparage or discriminate against other groups if they claim victim status and do so for purportedly noble purposes.” VDH’s article “The Return of Ancient Prejudices,” discusses the idea of evolving prejudices in today’s world, a challenge to identity politics; “The more attitudes and agenda may change, the more they stay the same.” Article available at the link in bio. #HooverInstitution #Stanford #HooverDC #WashingtonDC (📷: @patrickbeaudouin) “I value being given the responsibility to complete multiple projects that contribute to the success of Hoover's DC office. As a Hoover Intern, I am learning new skills for life and work. These skills, then, contribute to a larger picture of how the world works.” – Jason Lin, @Stanford Political Science Major and Hoover Institution DC intern The Hoover Institution in Washington DC internship program helps undergraduate students, graduate students and recent graduate students acquire skills and work experience in their related area of study which can help them springboard into their future career. For 10 weeks DC interns have the opportunity to regularly participate in Hoover DC internal meetings as well as help with the implementation of public events hosted by the DC office. Working minutes from the White House and Capitol Hill, Hoover DC interns also regularly attend events hosted by other organizations and congressional hearings and briefings where they can learn about relevant policy issues, see how these issues are integrated into the legislative process, and meet leading policy-makers and prominent scholars. To learn more about the program and how to apply, check out our link in bio. 🇺🇸 #HooverInstitution #Stanford #HooverDC #WashingtonDC Feb. 2nd marks the anniversary of Ayn Rand’s birth 114 years ago in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Discussing the impact of her life on American politics and thought, @Stanford Associate Professor of History and Hoover Institution Research Fellow Jennifer Burns: “What’s interesting about Rand is that she has never mapped cleanly onto left or right politics. Her economic ideas are very conservative, but they are mixed with a libertarian emphasis on freedom and individual rights. This makes her exciting to think about in a moment of political change and possibility. Rand shows that our assumptions about right and left don’t need to stay the same—and in fact these divisions we take for granted have never been as solid as we think.” Burns’ book, “Goddess of the Market,” drew upon unprecedented access to Rand's private papers and the original, unedited versions of her journals to offer a groundbreaking reassessment of the key cultural figure, examining her life, her ideas, and impact on conservative political thought. New interview at the link in bio. #HooverInstitution #Stanford #HooverDC #WashingtonDC #AynRand (📷: @prezfotog) The nation is quickly approaching a fiscal disaster. Without major reforms, future government spending will far exceed future revenues. This fiscal imbalance threatens future generations. Despite this reality, few Americans seem concerned. Many are unaware of the problem. Others wrongly conclude that minor reforms, enacted in the distant future, will be sufficient. Introducing America Off Balance, a site to fill this knowledge gap, providing visitors with up-to-date facts on the future of the federal budget. It encourages visitors to rethink their assumptions about the federal budget and to be skeptical of painless budget solutions often proposed by policymakers and partisan activists. Explore it now at the link in bio. #HooverInstitution #Stanford #HooverDC #WashingtonDC @policy_ed Founded in 1945 by University of Chicago scientists who had helped develop the first atomic weapons in the Manhattan Project, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists created the Doomsday Clock two years later, using the imagery of apocalypse (midnight) and the contemporary idiom of nuclear explosion (countdown to zero) to convey threats to humanity and the planet. The Clock has become a universally recognized indicator of the world’s vulnerability to catastrophe from nuclear weapons, climate change, and new technologies emerging in other domains. Today the clock has been set to two minutes to midnight—the closest it has ever been to apocalypse. “Dire as the present may seem, there is nothing hopeless or predestined about the future. . . . But threats must be acknowledged before they can be effectively confronted. The current situation—in which intersecting nuclear, climate, and information warfare threats all go insufficiently recognized and addressed, when they are not simply ignored or denied—is unsustainable. The longer world leaders and citizens carelessly inhabit this new and abnormal reality, the more likely the world is to experience catastrophe of historic proportions,” warns a new statement, the product of the collective work of @HooverInstitution Fellows Herb Lin and William Perry, and others. Statement available now at the link in bio. #HooverInstitution #Stanford @Stanford #HooverDC #WashingtonDC “When both Democratic and Republican lawmakers recently joined together to support a taxpayer-funded, multibillion-dollar bailout of big union pension funds, you didn’t need to be a ‘swamp’ creature to know something has gone terribly wrong in Washington, D.C. But that is exactly what happened when U.S. Rep. Richard Neal, Massachusetts Democrat, chairman of the Ways & Means Committee, offered a so-called bipartisan plan to address the pension crisis. However, this proposed bailout of organized labor’s retirement plans would cost federal taxpayers billions — while setting a dangerous precedent that would expose taxpayers and laborers to more financial mischief,” writes Josh Rauh, Senior Fellow @HooverInstitution and @StanfordGSB Professor. Referring to a new proposal that would authorize the Treasury Department to issue bonds in order to finance loans to pension plans on the brink of fiscal disaster, Rauh, whose work focuses on state and local pension systems, warns how a federal taxpayer bailout for union pensions is a bad idea; “It sets a terrible precedent for a bigger, looming problem: Underfunded state and local government pensions. . . . While Congress understandably wants to find ways of protecting hard-working people hurt by pension defaults, the proposed legislation would only exacerbate the pension problems.” Article at the link in bio. #HooverInstiution #Stanford #HooverDC #WashingtonDC (📷: @patrickbeaudouin) Hoover Tower, 1968. Established one hundred years ago by Herbert Hoover at his alma mater @Stanford, the Hoover Institution marks its centennial in 2019. From its initial charge to collect materials documenting the experience of war and the pursuit of peace, the institution stands today as the world’s preeminent archive and policy research center dedicated to freedom, private enterprise, and effective, limited government. Our centennial is a reflection of both the uncommon vision of our founder and the generosity of those who have stood with us to meet the greatest social, political, and economic challenges of an entire century. It also calls on us to prepare for even greater impact in the years ahead: guiding our nation’s policy makers, informing the marketplace of ideas, and illuminating the road to prosperity and peace in America and around the world. 🇺🇸 #HooverInstitution #Stanford #HooverDC #WashingtonDC (📷: Stanford Department of Special Collections and University Archives)

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