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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. During 2019, he is 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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    Peter Berkowitz On The John Batchelor Show (29:34)

    Research | Podcasts
    Tuesday, June 9, 2015

    Hoover Institution fellow Peter Berkowitz gives his thoughts on how schools are not doing a good job teaching world and civic history. 

    Peter Berkowitz’s Five Books

    Research | Articles | by Peter Berkowitz
    Wednesday, January 12, 2011

    His reading list focuses on how liberty is won, lost, and neglected. By Jonathan Rauch.

    Berkowitz discusses how colleges neglect core US principles on the John Batchelor Show

    Research | Podcasts | by Peter Berkowitz
    Thursday, January 17, 2013

    Peter Berkowitz, the Tad and Dianne Taube Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, notes that the trench warfare between President Obama’s Democratic Party and the House-led Republicans over the budget, entitlements, and regulation reflects a profound and historic difference of opinion over the size and scope of the federal government. Accurately understanding what’s at stake in this struggle requires knowledge of American history. But that’s exactly the kind of subject liberal education is denying today’s college students.

    Sub-standardized Testing

    Research | Articles | by Peter Berkowitz
    Friday, October 16, 2015

    The College Board wants to ensure that students learn about America only at its worst.

    God and Man at Yale Turns 60

    Research | Articles | by Peter Berkowitz
    Saturday, November 5, 2011
    That students have felt the need and had the opportunity to increase exposure to conservative ideas on campus is a tribute to the intellectual and political movement Buckley launched...

    'Anti-Education: On the Future of Our Educational Institutions'

    Research | Articles | by Peter Berkowitz
    Thursday, January 14, 2016

    The amazing success of higher education in America obscures the crisis of higher education in America. According to the U.S. News and World Report 2016 rankings, the United States is home to eight of the top ten universities in the world and to a little more than half of the world’s top hundred universities.

    Require Western Civ Courses-- And End College Dark Ages

    Research | Articles | by Peter Berkowitz
    Tuesday, February 23, 2016

    This week The Stanford Review—an independent undergraduate political magazine that seeks “to promote debate about campus and national issues that are otherwise not represented by traditional publications”—issued a bold manifesto aimed at advancing liberal education on campus and nationally. 

    Stanford Erupts In Controversy After Student Petition Calls For Mandatory Western Civ Classes

    Research | Articles
    Thursday, February 25, 2016

    The notion of requiring students to take two courses in Western Civilization to earn a diploma is so controversial at Stanford University that a recently launched petition that calls for as much has propelled the school into a heated debate complete with name-calling, intimidation tactics and more.

    Academic Centers Taking Root on University Campuses

    Research | Articles
    Tuesday, May 1, 2007

    In an effort to restore the teaching of our nation's founding principles at colleges and universities and produce the next generation of professors prepared to effectively teach America's history and institutions, new academic centers of excellence are now active at the University of Chicago; University of Colorado, Boulder; University of Texas, Austin; and Emory University...

    What is a University For?

    Research | Articles | by Peter Berkowitz
    Saturday, December 1, 2007

    Peter Berkowitz on Education’s End: Why Our Colleges and Universities Have Given Up on the Meaning of Life  by  Anthony T. Kronman

    How State Lawmakers Can Restore Freedom On Campus

    Research | Articles | by Peter Berkowitz
    Monday, January 30, 2017

    Use the power of the purse to abolish speech codes—making public colleges into a model for private ones.

    What’s The Point Of A Liberal Education? Don’t Ask The Ivy League

    Research | Articles | by Peter Berkowitz
    Friday, September 15, 2017

    Few top colleges explain their purpose to students. They want to talk gender and inequality instead.

    Hoover Hosts Friends and Supporters at the 2017 Fall Retreat

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    Friday, January 26, 2018
    Peter Berkowitz, the Tad and Dianne Taube Senior Fellow at Hoover and a recipient of a 2017 Bradley ...

    Making Room for Burke and Hume

    Research | Articles | by Peter Berkowitz
    Friday, October 9, 2009

    Why shouldn’t American universities give conservative ideas their due? By Peter Berkowitz.

    Teaching The Federalist

    Research | Articles | by Peter Berkowitz
    Wednesday, April 16, 2008

    What happens when South Korean students take a close look at American democracy. By Peter Berkowitz.

    Conservatism and the University Curriculum

    Research | Articles | by Peter Berkowitz
    Saturday, June 13, 2009

    The political science departments at elite private universities such as Harvard and Yale, at leading small liberal arts colleges like Swarthmore and Williams, and at distinguished large public universities like the University of Maryland and the University of California, Berkeley, offer undergraduates a variety of courses on a range of topics...

    Why Colleges Don't Teach the Federalist Papers

    Research | Articles | by Peter Berkowitz
    Monday, May 7, 2012
    At America's top schools, graduates leave without reading our most basic writings on the purpose of constitutional self-government...

    How California's Colleges Indoctrinate Students

    Research | Articles | by Peter Berkowitz
    Saturday, March 31, 2012
    A new report on the UC system documents the plague of politicized classrooms. The problem is national in scope...

    Our Elite Schools Have Abandoned Military History

    Research | Articles | by Peter Berkowitz
    Saturday, April 30, 2011
    The study of war elucidates some of mankind's noblest virtues and bitterest vices. So why do colleges seem afraid of it...?

    A Boot Camp for Citizenship

    Research | Articles | by Peter Berkowitz
    Friday, April 6, 2012

    Civics education must not be indoctrination, but it also must not be overlooked. By Peter Berkowitz.

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