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    Peter Berkowitz

    Tad and Dianne Taube Senior Fellow

    Peter Berkowitz is the Tad and Dianne Taube Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. Since 2019, he has been serving on the State Department’s Policy Planning Staff in the office of the secretary. He is a 2017 winner of the ...

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    Virtual Event: The Report Of The Commission On Unalienable Rights: Why The Controversy?

    Research | Articles
    Friday, August 28, 2020

    The Commission published its draft report last month and it has received both acclaim and criticism. The virtual event on Friday, August 28, 2020 will feature Dr. Peter Berkowitz and Dr. Aaron Rhodes.

    The Pacific Century Reads A Long Telegram

    Research | Podcasts
    Tuesday, January 19, 2021

    Parsing the State Department Policy Planning Staff’s New China Report with Peter Berkowitz.

    Want to Defeat Coronavirus? Lean Into Capitalism, Freedom

    Research | Articles
    Tuesday, March 31, 2020

    President Trump has an opportunity both to defeat the novel coronavirus and to gain advantage for the United States in its struggle with China. The competition between the U.S. and China for global influence predates both the coronavirus crisis and the Trump administration. It flared earlier in this presidency during trade negotiations. 

    Israel at Seventy

    Research | Articles | by Peter Berkowitz
    Monday, July 9, 2018

    A nation that “encourages its citizens to challenge authority, ask the next question, and defy the obvious.”

    The Untold Story Of Israeli Innovation

    Research | Articles | by Peter Berkowitz
    Tuesday, March 13, 2018

    Even beyond its extraordinary success in launching high-tech companies chronicled nine years ago in the best-selling “Start-up Nation,” Israel is an innovation capital of the world. But the inspiring story of its inventors and entrepreneurs and their discoveries, devices, and services that have benefited the Jewish state and people around the globe has not been fully told. 

    Trump's Best Bet In Corona Crisis Is Free Markets

    Research | Articles
    Sunday, March 29, 2020

    President Trump has an opportunity both to defeat the novel coronavirus and to gain advantage for the United States in the competition with China for global influence, which predates both the coronavirus crisis and the Trump administration. It flared earlier in this presidency during trade negotiations. It resurfaced with Mr. Trump describing Covid-19 as the “Chinese virus.”

    Rights And Regulation In The Internet Age

    Research | Articles | by Peter Berkowitz
    Sunday, May 17, 2020

    In Book I of “Plato’s Republic,” Socrates observes that master doctors serve as our guardians against the most dangerous diseases while possessing the greatest skills for surreptitiously producing them. The quality of doctors’ character makes all the difference.

    DIVISIONS AND DECISIONS: The Ethics of Stem Cell Research

    Research | Videos
    Tuesday, September 25, 2001

    In August of 2001, President Bush announced his decision to limit federal funding of stem cell research to already established lines of embryonic stem cells, while forbidding funding for any research that required the destruction of additional human embryos. But his decision ended neither stem cell research nor the debate over the ethics of such research. How do we weigh the medical benefits of this research against the destruction of embryos? Where do we draw the line on research using human embryos and are we on a slippery slope toward even more controversial research?

    THE BOTTOMLESS WELL: Are We Running out of Energy?

    Research | Videos
    Friday, February 11, 2005

    Many petroleum experts predict that world oil production will peak by the end of the decade. Will the United States soon be entering a period of worsening energy shortages and soaring energy costs? And, if so, what should the government to do about it? Or will the ever-improving technological efficiencies of the free market provide access to virtually endless sources of new energy? Peter Robinson speaks with Peter Huber and Jonathan Koomey.

    HIGH WIRE ACT: Reforming the Electricity Industry

    Research | Videos
    Monday, November 24, 2003

    Building America's electricity system was one of the great achievements of the twentieth century, providing inexpensive energy to homes and businesses throughout the country. But in the twenty-first century, two crises occurred. In 2001, California experienced massive electricity shortages, leading to rolling blackouts and skyrocketing electrical bills. And in 2003, a blackout swept across eight states in the Midwest and Northeast, leaving tens of millions in the dark. Why did these problems arise now, after a century of progress? Were they the result of ill-advised attempts to deregulate the utility industry? Or is more deregulation actually the solution?

    JUST SAY YES? Drug Legalization

    Research | Videos
    Tuesday, August 26, 2003

    For more than thirty years, the United States has been waging a war on drugs. This war—which takes the form of billions of dollars spent each year on drug law enforcement and interdiction, as well as harsh sentencing for drug offenses—is being called a failure by many critics. But if it is a failure, is drug legalization the solution? Just how would legalization work? And would the benefits of legalization outweigh the costs?

    DARWIN UNDER THE MICROSCOPE: Questioning Darwinism

    Research | Videos
    Friday, December 7, 2001

    More than 140 years after Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species, his theory of evolution is still generating controversy. Although Darwinism is championed by the majority of the scientific community, some have claimed that Darwin's theory is bad science and have put forward their own, even more controversial theories. What should we make of these arguments? Is one such theory, known as Intelligent Design, merely creationism by another name, or is it a legitimate scientific alternative to Darwinism?

    IN WHOSE IMAGE? Evolution and Spirituality

    Research | Videos
    Friday, December 7, 2001

    Did life on earth unfold by chance or by design? According to the natural sciences and Darwin's theory of evolution, it was by chance. According to the Judeo-Christian tradition, it was by divine design. On this crucial question, science and religion appear to be irreconcilable. But are they? Does Darwinism encourage atheism? Must Christians be anti-Darwin?

    Our Brave New World

    Research | Articles | by Victor Davis Hanson
    Saturday, February 7, 2009

    Be careful when one uses the superlative case—best, most, -est, etc.—or evokes end-of-the-world imagery...

    A Madisonian Remedy To The Social Media Revolution

    Research | Articles | by Peter Berkowitz
    Saturday, June 22, 2019

    Factions, argued James Madison in Federalist No. 10, had ever been the bane of governments grounded in the consent of the governed. However, an improved political science informed the new charter of government that he and his fellow delegates drafted a few months before in Philadelphia over the course of the summer of 1787. Well-designed institutions that minimized freedom’s costs offered a more promising approach to preserving freedom. So effective is Madisonian political science that it provides remedies for such up-to-date threats to freedom as social media and the giant companies that monopolize the provision of information about us and about others.

    HELTER SWELTER: The Debate over Global Warming

    Research | Videos
    Tuesday, June 8, 2004

    This past summer's big-budget disaster movie The Day After Tomorrow depicted a near-future in which human-caused global warming dramatically disrupted the earth's climate system, plunging the world into a new ice age. Although the scenario in the film is clearly an unrealistic fantasy, some scientists say that relatively sudden climate change is theoretically possible—but how likely it is depends on whether human activity really causes global warming. Does the evidence suggest that higher amounts of so-called greenhouse gases in the atmosphere due to fossil fuel consumption are, in fact, causing global warming? And if so, what should we do about it? Peter Robinson speaks with Carl Pope and Fred Smith Jr.

    MONKEY BUSINESS: Evolution and Intelligent Design

    Research | Videos
    Friday, January 14, 2005

    In October 2004, the school board in the small town of Dover, Pennsylvania, ordered its high school biology teachers to preface classes on evolution with the statement: "Darwin's Theory is a theory not a fact. Gaps in the theory exist for which there is no evidence." As an alternative to evolution, the school board suggested "intelligent design," a theory holding that life on earth could not have developed at random. Are there gaps in the theory of evolution that undermine its credibility? What should we make of "intelligent design"? And just what should we be teaching our children about the development of life on earth? Peter Robinson speaks with Massimo Pigliucci and Jonathan Wells.

    A SPACE CASE: The Future of NASA

    Research | Videos
    Thursday, July 15, 2004

    In January 2004, President George W. Bush announced a plan for a manned mission to Mars in the first half of the twenty-first century. Is NASA up to the task? Given the recent failures of NASA's manned space program, from Space Shuttle disasters to the overbudget and barely functional International Space Station, should NASA even be running a manned space program? If so, what can be done to revitalize NASA and restore both its sense of purpose and the public's excitement for space exploration that has been missing for twenty years? Peter Robinson speaks with Sean O'Keefe.

    PEACEABLE KINGDOM: Animal Rights

    Research | Videos
    Monday, April 28, 2003

    The past decade has seen the emergence of an increasingly vocal animal rights movement in this country. Although many of the specific goals of the movement have to do with promoting the humane treatment of animals, the underlying argument is that certain basic legal rights should be extended to animals as well. Should we recognize that animals have legal rights, or should we continue to regard animals as property, as resources to use as humans see fit? Just what rights, if any, should animals have? And how could these rights alter the relationship between humans and the rest of the animal kingdom?

    IT'S THE BIOLOGY, STUPID: The Policy Implications of Sociobiology

    Research | Videos
    Friday, June 1, 2001

    Behavioral scientists have begun to argue that the findings of evolutionary science should have legal, political, and moral consequences. If behaviors such as procreation, aggression, or homosexuality are determined more by our biology than by our free will, then it is foolish, these scientists argue, to ignore that evidence. Does evolutionary science have any place in public policy? How useful is the knowledge of our biological evolution in determining the values of our legal, social, and political system?

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