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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. In 2019-2021, he served as the Director of the State Department’s Policy Planning Staff, executive secretary of the department's Commission on Unalienable Rights, and senior adviser to the...

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    Peter Berkowitz, the Tad and Dianne Taube Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, presented a talk titled “The Future of Conservatism” on April 15. The event took place at the Hoover Institution.
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    Are Universities To Blame?

    Research | Articles
    Tuesday, June 9, 2015

    In an engrossing interview with Bill Kristol, the conservative scholar, author and former Harvard professor Peter Berkowitz paints a dismal picture of our universities.

    Substance versus style

    Research | Articles
    Monday, March 15, 2010

    Hoover Fellow Peter Berkowitz has a scathingly accurate analysis of higher education in today’s Wall Street Journal op-ed page. . . .

    Assumption College’s Ecumenical Institute presents “Defending Liberal Education"

    Research | Articles
    Thursday, January 24, 2008

    A lecture by law, ethics and political scholar Peter Berkowitz, at 7 p.m. Feb. 7 in the Salon of La Maison Francaise, 500 Salisbury St...

    Berkowitz discusses liberal bias on college campuses on KQED’s Forum

    Research | Podcasts
    Wednesday, April 4, 2012

    Peter Berkowitz, the Tad and Dianne Taube Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, discusses whether or not students at the University of California are receiving a biased and compromised education from activist professors.

    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.

    California Higher-Ed: Regents Deny Critics a Fair Hearing

    Research | Articles | by Peter Berkowitz
    Tuesday, February 19, 2013
    Tuesday, February 19, 2013 Peter Berkowitz Real Clear Politics Hoover Daily Report Tuesday, February 19, 2013 Articles Education Teachers & Teaching North America ...

    Does Harvard Hate Humanities?

    Research | Articles | by Peter Berkowitz
    Friday, June 28, 2013
    Friday, June 28, 2013 Peter Berkowitz Weekly Standard Hoover Daily Report Friday, June 28, 2013 Articles Education Teachers & Teaching North America ...

    The Sad State of Liberal Education at Bowdoin

    Research | Articles | by Peter Berkowitz
    Wednesday, April 3, 2013
    Wednesday, April 3, 2013 Peter Berkowitz Real Clear Politics Hoover Daily Report Wednesday, April 3, 2013 Articles Education Federal Policy North America ...

    California Higher Education's Hollow Core

    Research | Articles | by Peter Berkowitz
    Wednesday, August 29, 2012
    Wednesday, August 29, 2012 Peter Berkowitz Real Clear Politics Hoover Daily Report Wednesday, August 29, 2012 Articles Education K-12 Reform Teachers & Teaching North America ...

    10 Ways Liberal Education Fails Students-- and Society

    Research | Articles | by Peter Berkowitz
    Saturday, February 2, 2013
    Saturday, February 2, 2013 Peter Berkowitz Real Clear Politics Hoover Daily Report Monday, February 4, 2013 Articles Education K-12 Reform North America ...

    Are Universities Above the Law?

    Research | Articles | by Peter Berkowitz
    Monday, May 13, 2013
    Monday, May 13, 2013 Peter Berkowitz Weekly Standard Hoover Daily Report Monday, May 13, 2013 Articles Education K-12 Reform North America ...

    Berkowitz: How Marx Transformed The Mission Statements Of Ivy League Universities

    Research | Articles
    Thursday, February 21, 2019

    In his “Theses on Feuerbach,” the young Karl Marx proclaimed, “[P]hilosophers have only hitherto interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it” (emphasis in original). The mission statements of several preeminent colleges and universities in the United States follow suit, an analyst noted.

    Berkowitz discusses his op-ed “Professors Proselytizing Liberalism”

    Research | Videos
    Friday, March 30, 2012

    Peter Berkowitz, the Tad and Dianne Taube Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, chair of the Koret-Taube Task Force on National Security and Law, and cochair of the the Boyd and Jill Smith Task Force on Virtues of a Free Society, notes, on Wall Street Journal TV, that public colleges are legally obligated to keep the classrooms free of politics and that classrooms should be places where students are free to explore ideas.

    Harvard's Curriculum Scrutinized

    Research | Articles
    Wednesday, September 5, 2007

    In a lengthy piece in today's Wall Street Journal (subscribers only), Peter Berkowitz, a senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution, and teacher at the George Mason University School of Law, raises timely questions about the requirements of a genuine liberal education...

    An Open Letter to Swarthmore's Board of Managers

    Research | Articles | by Peter Berkowitz
    Saturday, June 28, 2014

    Dear Members of the Board:

    I read with a mixture of anticipation and trepidation the unexpected announcement earlier this month that President Rebecca Chopp is departing Swarthmore to become the chancellor of the University of Denver.

    Our Polarized Politics Are Tied To Flaws In Education

    Research | Articles | by Peter Berkowitz
    Friday, May 6, 2016

    The debasement of liberal education is a little-discussed but long-standing cause of the much-discussed polarization of our politics.

    The Battle For Religious Liberty Will Be Won On The Field Of Education

    Research | Articles | by Peter Berkowitz
    Monday, August 22, 2016

    A striking correlation exists between the decay of liberal education and the belief that government should push American citizens toward progressivism.

    AP Course Standards Have Fallen Prey To Partisanship

    Research | Articles | by Peter Berkowitz
    Saturday, September 3, 2016

    Labor Day weekend marks the return to school and the beginning of the home stretch of the presidential campaign. The connection is typically overlooked.

    'Sexual Paranoia Comes To Campus'

    Research | Articles
    Wednesday, April 5, 2017
    In a new book, Professor Laura Kipnis continues her defiance of campus thought police.

    Liberal Education And Liberal Democracy

    Research | Articles | by Peter Berkowitz
    Monday, April 23, 2018

    Colleges foster smugness on the left and resentment on the right.

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