Hoover Fall 2023 Retreat

Condoleezza Rice, Tad and Dianne Taube Director of the Hoover Institution, opens the Fall 2023 Retreat.

Condoleezza Rice discusses the current set of global conflicts with Jim Mattis, Davies Family Distinguished Fellow and former secretary of defense.

Cdr. K. R. Reinhold (US Coast Guard), a 2023–24 National Security Affairs Fellow, is recognized by Senior Fellow Amy Zegart at the 2023 Fall Retreat.

David Arulanantham, a US foreign service officer and 2023–24 National Security Affairs Fellow, discusses his career in diplomacy.

Lt. Col. Vinh Nguyen (US Army), a 2023–24 National Security Affairs Fellow, describes his career delivering cyber support and network connectivity for US military operations.

FBI Special Agent Nicholas Shenkin discusses his efforts at countering intellectual property theft by the People’s Republic of China.

Amy Zegart, Morris Arnold and Nona Jean Cox Senior Fellow, moderates a discussion with the members of the 2023–24 class of the Robert and Marion Oster National Security Affairs Fellows Program.

Senior Fellow Elizabeth Economy participates with host Peter Robinson in a live taping of Uncommon Knowledge about her recent book, The World According to China (Polity, 2022).

Hoover overseers and supporters gather in Hauck Auditorium for the Fall 2023 Retreat.

Peter Berkowitz, Tad and Dianne Taube Senior Fellow, gives a presentation about the attacks on Israel of October 7, 2023.

Hoover fellows, overseers, and supporters take part in a solemn vigil at Hoover Tower in memory of the victims of the October 7, 2023, attacks.

Hoover Tower is illuminated in memory of the victims of the October 7, 2023, attacks.

Founder and editor of the Free Press Bari Weiss engages in a keynote conversation with Hoover Institution director Condoleezza Rice.

Research Fellow Jennifer Burns gives a presentation about her new book, Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023)

Director of Library & Archives Eric Wakin gives a presentation about the Hoover Institution’s film collections.

Senior Fellow Amy Zegart interviews contributors to the Stanford Emerging Technology Review: Drew Endy, Stanford professor of bioengineering and Hoover senior fellow; Simone D’Amico, Stanford associate professor of aeronautics and astronautics; and the Review’s executive editor, Herbert Lin, the Hank J. Holland Fellow in Cyber Policy and Security.

Drew Endy demonstrates how innovators are creating products out of organisms found in the natural environment.

Simone D’Amico shows the audience a Cubestat, a nanosatellite originally created for research and academic study but now increasingly used for industrial purposes.

Volker Distinguished Visiting Fellow Benjamin Ginsberg forecasts the 2024 presidential election season.

The Hoover Institution’s popular video series GoodFellows is taped before a live audience at the Fall 2023 Retreat.

The GoodFellows (left to right): Fouad and Michelle Ajami Senior Fellow H.R. McMaster; Rose-Marie and Jack Anderson Senior Fellow John Cochrane; Milbank Family Senior Fellow Niall Ferguson; and the show’s moderator, Virginia Hobbs Carpenter Distinguished Policy Fellow in Journalism Bill Whalen.

Margaret Hoover, overseer and President Herbert Hoover’s great-granddaughter, gives closing remarks at the Fall 2023 Retreat.