Nicole Bacharan is a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution and a historian and political scientist specializing in American society and French-American relations. Bacharan presented a talk titled “President Obama and Europe” on May 12 at the Hyatt in Palo Alto.
Colonel Ken Backes, a national security affairs fellow for 2008–09 at the Hoover Institution, presented a talk titled “Who Gives a Hoot about Tweeting and Friending? Leveraging Technology and Social Media for Operational Planning.”
Guity Nashat is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and a professor of Islamic and Middle Eastern history at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Nashat presented a talk titled “The Evolving Role of Women in the Middle East” on April 14 at the Hyatt in Palo Alto.
Members of the K-12 Education Task Force just released a report containing ten recommendations regarding the reauthorization of No Child Left Behind. Findings are available in the newly released, Learning from No Child Left Behind...
Hoover’s Task Force on Property Rights, Freedom, and Prosperity met at the Hoover Institution March 5–6, 2009. At a dinner honoring the task force, each member made brief presentations on their current task force projects, which focus on the rule of law, property law, private and public use rights, environmental markets, and patent law.
Lawrence Harrison presented a talk titled "Cultural Capital" on February 26. The event took place at the Hoover Institution.
Lawrence is the author of The Central Liberal Truth: How Politics Can Change a Culture and Save It From Itself and coeditor, with Samuel Huntington, of Culture Matters. Lawrence is the director of the Cultural Change Institute at the Fletcher School.
Former U.S. secretary of state Condoleezza Rice, who has returned to the Hoover Institution and Stanford University, spoke to Hoover Institution overseers and guests during dinner on Monday night at the Board of Overseers meeting.
Joseph Epstein, essayist and syndicated columnist, spoke on “Intellectual Journalism Revisited,” on January 28 at the Stanford Park Hotel.
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Many topics were introduced at the meeting held January 6, including Tocqueville and the two-founding thesis, transmitting essential values and virtues to American youth, from hearth-fires to hell-fires: Hawthorne and the Cartesian project, and the moral principles governing the legal regulation of pornography, as well as books and the task force mission.
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