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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 ...
Peter Berkowitz’s Five Books
His reading list focuses on how liberty is won, lost, and neglected. By Jonathan Rauch.
American Creed
What have people meant across the generations when they say, "I believe in America"?
Read Renewing the American Constitutional Tradition, a new collection from the Hoover Institution Press
The Hoover Institution has recently released a new volume edited by Hoover’s Tad and Dianne Taube Senior Fellow Peter Berkowitz entitled Renewing the American Constitutional Tradition.
FATHERS KNOWN BEST: The Founding Fathers
Biographies of George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, and John Adams and histories of the revolutionary era have been bestsellers and Pulitzer Prize winners in the past several years. What explains this recent surge of interest in the founding fathers of the American nation? What does the fascination with the founding fathers tell us about our own time? What would the founders have to say about the state of the nation today?
Area 45: The Art Of Presidential Wordsmithery Featuring Peter Robinson
Presidential communication in this age of shock tweets and nonstop news cycles.
Teaching The Federalist
What happens when South Korean students take a close look at American democracy. By Peter Berkowitz.
Universal Questioner
Hoover fellow Peter Berkowitz on Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, the late Soviet dissident and honorary Hoover fellow to whom “one word of truth outweighed the whole world.”
A Boot Camp for Citizenship
Civics education must not be indoctrination, but it also must not be overlooked. By Peter Berkowitz.
Uncommon Knowledge and the Hoover Institution Commemorate the 30th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall
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The Hoover Institution Commemorate the 30th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall.
The Speech That Defined a Presidency
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Gentlemen Revolutionaries
Peter Berkowitz on Revolutionary Characters: What Made The Founders Different by Gordon Wood
Lincoln & More with Harry Jaffa, Part II: Chapter 2 of 5
Can democracy survive if it abandons its Judeo-Christian roots?...
The World with Vaclav Klaus: Chapter 5 of 5
Have we drifted from the decisive victories for freedom achieved in 1989? . . .
The Rise and Fall of Liberalism: Chapter 2 of 5
Americans in 1963 would immediately blame the assassination of JFK on right-wing extremists — on anti-communists or white supremacists...
Trump, China, and the Geopolitics of a Crisis
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Peter Robinson and Stephen Kotkin discuss Trump’s response to the COVID-19 crisis, Kotkin’s thoughts on the Chinese leadership class and the advantages they may seek to exploit, and which country—China or the United States—will come to represent the more successful or compelling model to other nations.
Condoleezza Rice: Director Of The Hoover Institution
Uncommon Knowledge with Peter Robinson is proud to present the first interview with Condoleezza Rice in her new role as Director of the Hoover Institution. On September 1st, 2020 Director Rice became the Hoover Institution's eighth director in its 101 year history and the first woman to hold the position.
Condoleezza Rice: Director of the Hoover Institution
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Uncommon Knowledge with Peter Robinson is proud to present the first interview with Condoleezza Rice in her new role as Director of the Hoover Institution. On September 1st, 2020 Director Rice became the Hoover Institution's eighth director in its 101 year history and the first woman to hold the position.
GoodFellows: No Forward Passes
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As the second impeachment trial of Donald Trump begins, what’s the path forward for the Republican Party—distance itself from Trump and risk losing his fan base, or embrace Trump and further alienate suburbanites and college-educated voters? Peter Robinson, the Hoover Institution’s Murdoch Distinguished Policy Fellow and host of Uncommon Knowledge (and a former Reagan White House speechwriter), joins Hoover senior fellows Niall Ferguson, H. R. McMaster and John Cochrane to discuss the GOP’s brand, their shared memories of the late George Shultz, and one fellow’s disdain for the Super Bowl and the American version of “football.”
The Promise Of Party In A Polarized Age
What politics needs is better partisanship.
Drug Decriminalization
Special Rerelease of the First Episode of Uncommon Knowledge, Twenty-One Years Later.