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Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and founder of the AHA Foundation. She served as a member of the Dutch Parliament from 2003 to 2006.
She was born in Mogadishu, Somalia in 1969. As a young child, she was subjected to female genital mutilation. As she grew up...
The Ayaan Hirsi Ali Podcast: Michael Shellenberger On Climate Change
Hoover Institution fellow Ayaan Hirsi Ali talks with Michael Shellenberger about climate change, nuclear energy, and climate apocalypse.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali: Identity Politics And Its Tribal Branches
A Hoover Virtual Policy Briefing with Ayaan Hirsi Ali: Identity Politics and Its Tribal Branches
Thursday, June 18, 2020 at 11AM PT/ 2PM ET.
How Energy Will Influence Policy In 2022
[Subscription Required] Unlike in the past, our current energy crisis derives from our own mistakes
Boot Camp Prepares Students For Policy-Making Roles
A look at the 2019 Summer Policy Boot Camp.
Assessing The Real Threat Posed By Deepfake Technology
As is the annual tradition in the United Kingdom, Christmas Day saw Queen Elizabeth II deliver her 3 PM speech on television to households all around the country. And as is also a tradition, Channel 4 offered its viewers an alternative speech that broadcast at the same time as that of the Queen’s, usually delivered by another renowned personality—previous notable figures include former President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Edward Snowden, Ali G and Marge Simpson.
Lands of Little Rain
Drought may not be destiny, but a critical ingredient for democratic societies does seem literally to fall from the skies. By Stephen H. Haber and Victor Menaldo.
Don’t Give Up on Sanctions
The Nightmare Comes True
Reading Machiavelli in Tehran
Iran’s two top leaders scheme. By Abbas Milani.
The Predictioneer’s Game
Putting numbers to the news, Hoover fellow Bruce Bueno de Mesquita lays his bets on issues such as climate change and Middle East peace.
America Through the Looking Glass
Velvet Revolution, Interrupted
When the Strongman Falters
The Arab revolts show why some autocrats hang on forever while others get swept away. By Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith.
A Trench War In The Digital Age: The Case Of Iran
A trench war, fought in our labyrinthine digital world, has been raging in the Islamic Republic of Iran for more than two decades. On one side is a youthful internet-savvy society—adept at the gender-neutral, hierarchy-averse pluralism of platforms and networks—a society craving to join the 21st century. On the other side is a clerical despotic regime with a claim to divine legitimacy, a parallel male-dominated septuagenarian elite, enamored of gender-apartheid and of ideas more than a millennium old—a power structure that is retrograde, passé and stale, compared to the vibrancy of Iranian society at large.
The Kingdom of Caution
The land where stability vies ceaselessly with stagnation. By Joshua Teitelbaum.
Where the Autocrats Rule On
Now that the U.S. freedom agenda has quietly been shelved, Arab lands can only reflect on what might have been. By Fouad Ajami.
Should More Nations Have Nukes?
There is only one weapon that poses an existential threat to the United States, so why should America want other nations to possess it? The simple answer is that Washington’s nonproliferation policy, which once slowed the spread of nuclear weapons, now looks to be on the verge of collapse.
Powering the World
Is Started with the Shah
Hoover fellow Abbas Milani on the rebellions in the Muslim world—and the monarch who set them off. An interview with Charlie Rose.
What Is To Be Done? Safeguarding Democratic Governance In The Age Of Network Platforms
Once upon a time, only the elite could network globally. David Rockefeller—the grandson of the oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller—was a pioneer networker. According to a recent report, “He recorded contact information along with every meeting he had with about 100,000 people world-wide on white 3-by-5-inch index cards. He amassed about 200,000 of the cards, which filled a custom-built Rolodex machine, a 5-foot high electronic device.”