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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.
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    Why King V. Burwell Should Cheer The Right

    Research | Articles | by Peter Berkowitz
    Monday, July 6, 2015

    The Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision upholding the Obama administration’s interpretation of a critical provision of the Affordable Care Act was the rare judicial action that helped both Democrats and Republicans, at least in the short run.

    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.

    Comey Failed To Act In The Public Interest

    Research | Articles | by Peter Berkowitz
    Saturday, July 16, 2016

    On July 5, FBI Director James Comey delivered a prepared statement summarizing the bureau’s yearlong investigation of Hillary Clinton’s use of a personal email system during her tenure as secretary of state.

    A Poor Guide For Trump's High Court Choices

    Research | Articles | by Peter Berkowitz
    Monday, November 28, 2016

    To the chagrin of the vast majority of professors of constitutional law, President-elect Donald Trump has promised to appoint judges to the Supreme Court and throughout the federal judiciary who believe that the Constitution’s original meaning provides authoritative guidance in resolving cases and controversies.

    Can Trump And Constitutional Conservatism Coexist?

    Research | Articles | by Peter Berkowitz
    Sunday, December 11, 2016

    The idea of a “constitutional conservatism” is back in the news. It came into vogue on the right in response to the pursuit by President Obama—after his victory in the 2008 presidential election and the Democrats’ sweep of both houses of Congress—of ambitious progressive policies.

    Confronting The Administrative Power Grab

    Research | Articles | by Peter Berkowitz
    Sunday, June 11, 2017

    Administrative law is the collection of rules governing the welter of government agencies -- ranging from the Environmental Protection Agency and Food and Drug Administration to the Securities and Exchange Commission -- that are neither legislatures nor courts but which make binding law.

    Conflating Ideas Weakens Constitutional Principles

    Research | Articles | by Peter Berkowitz
    Wednesday, January 30, 2019

    Like an individual mixed up about his convictions, a nation perplexed about its principles is prone to self-inflicted wounds. Both are likely to wander aimlessly and choose friends poorly while falling for the blandishments of adversaries. They are prone to misjudge their interests and misconstrue justice. A nation perplexed about its principles exacerbates citizens’ muddle about their convictions. 

    Defending Democratic Norms Requires Defending Free Speech

    Research | Articles | by Peter Berkowitz
    Sunday, April 7, 2019

    Many in the United States worry about the erosion of democratic norms. Too few, however, exhibit concern for the steady deterioration over the last half century of the essential democratic norm of free speech.

    Member of D.C. Circuit Court Is Least Likely to Offend GOP

    Research | Articles
    Friday, April 9, 2010

    Merrick Garland, a judge on the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, long a pipeline to the Supreme Court, could be one of least controversial choices to succeed Justice John Paul Stevens, according to legal experts.

    What Would a Return to the Constitution Entail?

    Research | Articles | by Peter Berkowitz
    Friday, January 7, 2011
    Rather than the New York Times' outdated vision of "Progressivism," conservatives should become proponents of progress understood as the crafting of better laws to protect individual freedom...

    The Left's Hollow Complaints About Hobby Lobby

    Research | Articles | by Peter Berkowitz
    Friday, July 11, 2014

    Progressives are fond of saying that they stand for empathy and compromise, and are quick to blame conservatives for polarizing our politics. Their feverish reaction last week to the Supreme Court’s thoughtful 5-4 decision in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. shows that progressives could use more of the virtues they claim as their own.

    Judith Miller Recants; Where's The Media?

    Research | Articles | by Peter Berkowitz
    Saturday, April 18, 2015

    In “The Story: A Reporter’s Journey,” which hit book store shelves Tuesday, April 7, former New York Times reporter Judith Miller revealed in the final chapter that she now believes that she was induced by then-Special Counsel Patrick J. Fitzgerald to give false testimony in the 2007 trial of I. “Lewis” Scooter Libby, former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney.

    A Citizenship Test — But Not Just For Students

    Research | Articles
    Monday, August 24, 2015

    Carly Fiorina recommends that all students take an American citizenship test in their school career. The New Yorker reported that “the National Conference of State Legislatures, which tracks state legislation, reported that seven states—Arizona, Idaho, Louisiana, North Dakota, South Carolina, Tennessee and Utah—passed such laws in the first half of the year; in July, they were joined by Wisconsin.”

    10 Questions That ABC Didn't Ask Comey

    Research | Articles | by Peter Berkowitz
    Monday, April 16, 2018

    On Sunday evening, ABC preempted its regularly scheduled programming to broadcast an exclusive interview conducted by “This Week” host George Stephanopoulos with former FBI Director James Comey. The star treatment is part of an all-out publicity campaign that Comey, fired by President Trump less than one year ago, has launched to promote his new book, “A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership.”

    The “Legend” Loses His Way

    Research | Articles
    Friday, April 27, 2018

    James Comey is a legend in his own mind. He expressed part of the legend to Donald Trump when, according to one his memos, he told the president on January 27, 2017: He could count on me to always tell him the truth. I said I don’t do sneaky things, I don’t leak, I don’t do weasel moves.

    George Will's Guide To Conserving The Founders' Liberalism

    Research | Articles | by Peter Berkowitz
    Thursday, July 18, 2019

    Patrick Deneen’s disdainful review last month in the Washington Post of George Will’s splendid new book, “The Conservative Sensibility,” reasserts fashionable misconceptions about liberalism, conservatism, and America. The review — and, more importantly, the book — provide an occasion to clarify the character of the conservatism that takes its bearings from the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, and from the ideas about human nature and freedom that undergird them.

    Read Renewing the American Constitutional Tradition, a new collection from the Hoover Institution Press

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    Monday, November 4, 2013

    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.

    JUDGING THE JUDGES: The Judicial Appointments Process

    Research | Videos
    Tuesday, August 26, 2003

    In his first term, President George W. Bush has had difficulty getting his nominees to the federal courts of appeal confirmed by the Senate. The Democrats have taken the almost unprecedented step of threatening filibusters to prevent floor votes on certain nominees. Has the judicial appointments process become the latest victim of bitter partisan politics? Or has the judiciary brought this state of affairs on itself by advancing a doctrine of judicial supremacy, leaving the executive and legislative branches no choice but to resort to political litmus tests for nominees? What does this situation bode for the next Supreme Court nomination? And what, if anything, should be done to reform the process?

    Obama’s Empathy Test

    Research | Articles | by Peter Berkowitz
    Monday, July 13, 2009

    In discharging their constitutional duty to provide advice and, if they deem appropriate, give consent to President Barack Obama’s nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court, Senators should examine the critical importance the president attaches to empathy...

    TORT AND RETORT: Tort Reform

    Research | Videos
    Friday, February 25, 2005

    During the 2004 presidential campaign, one principal plank of George W. Bush's domestic platform was reforming tort law, which includes class action lawsuits, asbestos liability, and medical malpractice liability. President Bush believes that tort law as it now stands permits trial lawyers to take advantage of good companies, driving up the costs of doing business for everyone. Others believe that existing tort law allows consumers to protect themselves against bad companies. Which is it? And should President Bush be given the tort reforms he wants? Peter Robinson speaks with David Davenport and Alan Morrison.

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