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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...

    Seminar featuring Hoover senior fellow Peter Berkowitz
    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.
    E.g., 2022-06-30
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    How Realistic Is An ‘Ivory Tower’ For Conservatives?

    Research | Articles
    Monday, February 25, 2019

    There’s no doubt that the current aim of higher education – “reproduction of ideology and the formation of like-minded political activists” – is harming America and the students and taxpayers who pay vast sums to these indoctrination factories.

    Harvard Is An Embarrassment To American Higher Education

    Research | Articles
    Monday, May 27, 2019

    As America's oldest and wealthiest university, Harvard University has been a source of national pride, indeed a national treasure, always very high on the list of the world's top schools. Yet recently it committed a blunder of breathtaking proportions, one so egregious that it calls for action not only by Harvard but possibly even beyond.

    A Delusive Assurance That All Is Well On Campus

    Research | Articles | by Peter Berkowitz
    Thursday, July 4, 2019

    For many decades, defenders of liberal education — not only conservatives — have been warning the public about colleges’ and universities’ hostility to free speech. If the warnings are unsound, why has controversy persisted? If they are sound, why hasn’t the problem been corrected?

    So You Want to Be a Professor

    Research | Articles
    Thursday, April 23, 2009

    Late last month, the Web site Inside Higher Ed reported that several universities were shrinking the number of students admitted to their Ph.D. programs this year...

    Do Campuses Tilt Left?

    Research | Articles | by Mary Eberstadt
    Monday, April 9, 2007

    Every once in a while, something you read is so otherwise inexplicable that satire seems the safest bet...

    Leo Strauss' Political Philosophy: Reviled But Redeemed

    Research | Articles | by Peter Berkowitz
    Saturday, August 16, 2014

    “Always assume that there is one silent student in your class who is by far superior to you in head and in heart.” This is the counsel Leo Strauss, among the most consequential teachers and scholars of political philosophy in the 20th century, offered an advanced graduate student who had asked for a general rule about teaching.

    For Love, Not Money

    Research | Articles
    Friday, September 14, 2007

    In high-cost urban areas, many professors are having a tough time leading a comfortable middle-class life...

    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...

    APUSH In The Wrong Direction? Looking At Revised U.S. History Curriculum For AP Students

    Research | Articles
    Saturday, June 27, 2015

    Last year, the College Board — the nonprofit organization that writes, administers and grades the Scholastic Aptitude Test as well as the 30-plus Advanced Placement courses for high school students taking college-level classes for college credit — replaced its five-page topical U.S. history course outline with a 134-page APUSH Framework.

    Harvard's Latest Enfeeblement Of Liberal Education

    Research | Articles | by Peter Berkowitz
    Saturday, May 25, 2019

    Harvard University’s maladroit defenestration of Ronald Sullivan and his wife, Stephanie Robinson, struck a blow against liberal education. Many of Harvard’s own left-liberal luminaries are up in arms. But the university’s disgraceful act can come as no surprise to anyone who has been paying attention for the last few decades to higher education in general and to Harvard in particular.

    U.S. Universities-- Not So Innocent Abroad?

    Research | Articles | by Peter Berkowitz
    Tuesday, June 30, 2015

    American universities are enjoying boom times abroad. Many of the most prestigious have established branch campuses overseas and launched collaborations with foreign governments and institutions of higher education, particularly in Asia and the Middle East.

    An Open Letter To Swarthmore President Valerie Smith

    Research | Articles | by Peter Berkowitz
    Sunday, May 2, 2021

    Dear President Smith, Thank you for your “Reflections on Yesterday’s Verdict,” which you sent to Swarthmore students, alumni, faculty, and staff on April 21 and posted on the college’s website.

    The Civic-Education Battles

    Research | Articles | by Peter Berkowitz
    Sunday, May 30, 2021

    Civic education has emerged as a major front in the bitter clash spilling over into many domains between left and right in America. Since the civic-education battles revolve around the nation’s core principles and fundamental character, they may prove the decisive front.

    Colleges' Big Fail: Protecting Feelings, But Not Speech

    Research | Articles | by Peter Berkowitz
    Tuesday, September 1, 2015

    The annual ritual of freshman orientation, which begins in mid-summer and extends through mid-September, is in full swing. Colleges are welcoming students and showing them around, acquainting them with classmates and college facilities, and making them aware of the full range of campus activities, clubs, and programs. 

    Peggy Noonan's Words To Live By

    Research | Articles | by Peter Berkowitz
    Wednesday, November 11, 2015

    In a June 4, 2010, Wall Street Journal column, republished in her new collection, “The Time of Our Lives,” Peggy Noonan tells the heartbreaking story of 28-year-old Detroit Tigers’ pitcher Armando Galarraga.

    Double Jeopardy At The University Of California

    Research | Articles | by Peter Berkowitz
    Sunday, April 17, 2016

    Most Americans understand that individuals who have been subject to an authorized disciplinary procedure and have accepted their prescribed punishment shouldn’t be investigated and punished a second time for the same offense. 

    An Assault On Due Process At UC Berkeley

    Research | Articles | by Peter Berkowitz
    Tuesday, May 17, 2016

    On April 22, University of California Berkeley law professor Sujit Choudhry filed an 11-page single-spaced grievance with the 10-member UC Berkeley Privilege and Tenure Committee. 

    Lawmakers Haven't Protected Free Speech On Campus-- Here's How They Can

    Research | Articles
    Saturday, February 4, 2017

    Much as administrators and faculty may dislike it, the fact is that public colleges are subject to both the First Amendment and the state legislatures that fund them. Legislators shouldn’t micromanage the campuses, but they must set some basic rules.

    Yale Lawsuit Spotlights Title IX, Sexual Assault 'Hysteria'

    Research | Articles | by Peter Berkowitz
    Saturday, March 4, 2017

    In an October 26, 2016, letter to the Wall Street Journal, Professor David M. Post, chair of Yale’s University-Wide Committee on Sexual Misconduct, defended the Ivy League institution’s “procedures for addressing sexual misconduct.” But his formulation betrayed him.

    States Consider Legislation To Protect Free Speech On Campus

    Research | Articles
    Friday, May 5, 2017

    On college campuses, outrage over provocative speakers sometimes turns violent. It's becoming a pattern on campuses around the country. A speaker is invited, often by a conservative student group. Other students oppose the speaker, and maybe they protest. If the speech happens, the speaker is heckled. Sometimes there's violence.

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