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American Umpire by Hoover national fellow Elizabeth Hoffman.

Hoover Research Fellow Elizabeth Cobbs' new book American Umpire

Wednesday, March 6, 2013

Elizabeth Hoffman, a national fellow at the Hoover Institution (2010–13) and the Dwight Stanford Professor of American Foreign Relations at San Diego State University, recently published a book titled American Umpire. In the book, Hoffman “asserts . . . that, because of its unusual federal structure, America has performed the role of umpire since 1776.

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Constitutional Conservatism: Liberty, Self-Government, and Political Moderation

Constitutional Conservatism: Liberty, Self-Government, and Political Moderation by Hoover fellow Peter Berkowitz

Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Stanford

Hoover Institution Press released Constitutional Conservatism: Liberty, Self-Government, and Political Moderation, by Peter Berkowitz. Berkowitz contends that constitutional conservatism encompasses a distinguished tradition of defending liberty that stretches from the great eighteenth century British statesman Edmund Burke through the authoritative exposition of the Constitution in The Federalist to the high points of post-World War II American conservatism.

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Hoover launches “The Libertarian” podcast

The Inaugural Address

by Richard A. Epsteinvia Defining Ideas
Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Richard Epstein the Peter and Kirsten Bedford Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, deconstructs President Obama's second inaugural address. He considers how the president has put the rhetoric of classical liberalism into the service of progressivism, what the speech got wrong about the founding generation, and what the remarks tell us about Obama's second-term agenda.

Herbert Romerstein

Herbert Romerstein Collection Comes to the Hoover Archives

Thursday, January 31, 2013

The Hoover Institution has recently acquired Herbert Romerstein’s archives, the result of some sixty years of his research and collecting. When fully processed and registered, it will be Hoover’s largest collection on the subversive activities of communist action and communist front organizations in the United States and abroad, substantially complementing the holdings of two large Hoover collections with a similar focus: the US Subversive Activities Control Board records and the William T. Poole collection.

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Obama vs Romney

What Did the Founders Think They Were Doing?

by Harvey C. Mansfieldvia Hoover Digest
Friday, January 25, 2013

Why do we vote, and what do we get for our trouble? By Harvey C. Mansfield.

Igor Aleksandrovich Dashkevich

Hoover Institution acquires papers of Igor Dashkevich

Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Igor Aleksandrovich Dashkevich was a political activist from Saint Petersburg who was involved in establishing independent trade unions and independent political and trade union publications during and immediately after the collapse of the Soviet system.

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Anne Applebaum's latest book, Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944

Iron Curtain

Monday, November 26, 2012

Anne Applebaum's latest book, Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944–1956, was published by Doubleday on October 30, 2012. In the long-awaited follow-up to her Pulitzer Prize–winning Gulag, acclaimed journalist Applebaum delivers a groundbreaking history of how communism took over Eastern Europe after World War II and frighteningly changed the lives of those who came under its sway.

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Victor Davis Hanson, Hoover Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow

Hoover fellows Hanson and Joffe discuss the state of our Union on TVO’s The Agenda

via The Agenda (TVO)
Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Victor Davis Hanson, the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and Josef Joffe, the Marc and Anita Abramowitz Fellow in International Relations at the Hoover Institution, weigh in on whether or not the United States is in decline. They also address whether the fear of decline is killing American optimism and exceptionalism.

Peter Robinson Uncommon Knowledge logo inset

"The American Project Is in Danger"

by Charles Murray, Peter M. Robinsonvia Hoover Digest
Friday, October 26, 2012

Charles Murray on the crisis that threatens our very identity as a nation. An interview with Peter Robinson.

Melting Pots and Salad Bowls

by Bruce Thorntonvia Hoover Digest
Friday, October 26, 2012

What is the future of assimilation in America? By Bruce S. Thornton.

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Military History Working Group


The Working Group on the Role of Military History in Contemporary Conflict examines how knowledge of past military operations can influence contemporary public policy decisions concerning current conflicts.