The depth of Hoover’s scholarship is reflected in the numerous books published by our fellows on a broad variety of topics and issues. This timely and prodigious output offers insight on the most pressing issues in public policy. This year Hoover fellows published books on a wide range of topics, including social networks, global insecurity, and American exceptionalism.

Check out this selection of books published by Hoover scholars in 2020:

Charter Schools and Their Enemies
by Thomas Sowell via Basic Books
Tuesday, June 30, 2020

A leading conservative intellectual defends charter schools against the teachers’ unions, politicians, and liberal educators who threaten to dismantle their success.

Battlegrounds: The Fight to Defend the Free World
by H. R. McMaster via HarperCollins Publishers
Thursday, July 30, 2020

From Lt. General H. R. McMaster, US Army (ret.), former national security advisor and author of the bestselling classic Dereliction of Duty, comes a bold and provocative re-examination of the most critical foreign policy and national security challenges that face the United States, and an urgent call to compete to preserve America’s standing and security.

The President Who Would Not Be King: Executive Power under the Constitution
by Michael McConnell via Princeton University Press
Tuesday, November 10, 2020

One of the most vexing questions for the framers of the Constitution was how to create a vigorous and independent executive without making him king. In today’s divided public square, presidential power has never been more contested. The President Who Would Not Be King cuts through the partisan rancor to reveal what the Constitution really tells us about presidential powers.

Choose Economic Freedom: Enduring Policy Lessons from the 1970s and 1980s
by George P. Shultz and John B. Taylor, featuring Milton Friedman via Hoover Institution Press
Sunday, March 1, 2020

What are the keys to good economic policy? George P. Shultz and John B. Taylor draw from their several decades of experience at the forefront of national economic policy making to show how market fundamentals beat politically popular government interventions—be they from Democrats or Republicans—as a recipe for success.

Crosswinds: The Way of Saudi Arabia
by Fouad Ajami via Hoover Institution Press
Wednesday, August 5, 2020

Fouad Ajami presents a firsthand look at the political culture in Saudi Arabia and its conduct and influence in foreign lands from the early 1990s to around 2010.

A Hinge of History: Governance in an Emerging New World
by George P. Shultz and James Timbie via Hoover Institution Press
Tuesday, November 17, 2020

The world is at an inflection point, much like the one it faced at the end of World War II. Advancing technologies are creating new challenges and opportunities. Shultz and Timbie take a “walk around the world,” examining a range of issues shaping our present and future. They argue that the United States is remarkably well positioned to ride this wave of change—and lead other nations in doing the same.

Strategies for Monetary Policy
edited by John Cochrane and John Taylor via Hoover Institution Press
Thursday, April 23, 2020

Contributors at the forefront of monetary policy assess possible practical ways in which we might refine our existing monetary policy framework to better achieve our dual-mandate goals of full employment and price stability on a sustained basis.

Asia’s New Geopolitics
by Michael R. Auslin via Hoover Institution Press
Wednesday, June 17, 2020

As Asia rises, geopolitical competition once again threatens its future. China’s aggressiveness, Sino-Japanese rivalry, regional territorial disputes, and North Korea’s nuclear weapons are shaping the Indo-Pacific and the world.

How to Educate an American: The Conservative Vision for Tomorrow's Schools
by Michael J. Petrilli and Chester E. Finn Jr. via Templeton Press
Tuesday, April 14, 2020

In the years after A Nation at Risk, conservatives’ ideas to reform America’s lagging education system gained much traction. Key items like school choice and rigorous academic standards drew bipartisan support and were put into practice across the country.

False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet
by Bjorn Lomborg via Basic Books
Tuesday, July 14, 2020

Hurricanes batter our coasts. Wildfires rage across the American West. Glaciers collapse in the Arctic. Politicians, activists, and the media espouse a common message: climate change is destroying the planet, and we must take drastic action immediately to stop it. Enough, argues bestselling author Bjorn Lomborg. Climate change is real, but it’s not the apocalyptic threat that we’ve been told it is. 

Defender in Chief: Donald Trump's Fight for Presidential Power
by John Yoo via All Points Books
Tuesday, July 28, 2020

In Defender in Chief, celebrated constitutional scholar John Yoo makes a provocative case against Donald Trump’s alleged disruption of constitutional rules and norms.
 
Dynamics of Democracy in Taiwan: The Ma Ying-jeou Years
Edited by Kharis Templeman, Yun-han Chu, and Larry Diamond via Lynne Rienner Publishers
Monday, April 27, 2020

During the Ma Ying-jeou presidency in Taiwan (2008–16), confrontations over relations with mainland China stressed the country’s institutions, leading to a political crisis. Nevertheless, its democracy proved to be resilient. The authors of Dynamics of Democracy in Taiwan explore key aspects of the complicated Ma era, including party politics and elections, the sources of Ma's governance challenges, changing public opinion, protest movements, and shifts in the regional balance of power.
 
From the Past to the Future: Ideas and Actions for a Free Society | The Mont Pelerin Society
Edited by John Taylor
via Hoover Institution
Friday, February 28, 2020

In this collection, leading scholars and practitioners discuss ideas about freedom and how to take the ideas into action today. The discussions took place at a January 2020 meeting of the Mont Pelerin Society, which was founded in 1947 for the “preservation and improvement of the free society.” Today, we hear calls for a return to socialism, for restrictions on trade, for regulations on firms and individuals that go well beyond cost-benefit calculations. Such challenges to the free society are again mounting and threatening economic growth and rising prosperity.

America in the World 2020: Great Decisions Special Edition
via Foreign Policy Association
Friday, September 4, 2020

Charges have been leveled that foreign policy has become the preserve of specialized elites removed from the concerns of Americans outside the Beltway and Wall Street. Yet for a century the Foreign Policy Association and the Hoover Institution have been at the forefront of encouraging informed public debate on vital international issues. The organizations come together at this crucial juncture to stimulate public discussion over the path forward for America in a troubled world.

Three Tweets to Midnight: Effects of the Global Information Ecosystem on the Risk of Nuclear Conflict
edited by Harold A. Trinkunas, Herbert Lin, and Benjamin Loehrke via Hoover Institution Press
Sunday, March 15, 2020

Disinformation and misinformation have always been part of conflict. But as the essays in this volume outline, the rise of social media and the new global information ecosystem have created conditions for the spread of propaganda like never before—with potentially disastrous results.