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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...
Conservatives Can Unite Around the Constitution
After their dismal performance in November, conservatives are taking stock...
Conservative Politicians Are Not Museum Curators
In a thoughtful consideration of the state of the conservative movement, Peter Berkowitz writes of fellow conservatives: “They should distinguish among what they can alter, what they must accept and what they should embrace.
The Poverty of Obama's Pragmatism
During his meteoric rise to the White House, President Obama was touted as a pragmatist -- one who overcomes ideology, transcends partisanship, and focuses on the practical and doable. The stunning repudiation of the president’s leadership on Nov. 4 exhibits the poverty of his brand of pragmatism.
POWER TO THE PEOPLE: The California Recall and Direct Democracy
On October 7, 2003, Californians go to the polls to vote in a historic election. They will decide whether to recall Governor Gray Davis and replace him with someone else. Davis is only the second governor in U.S. history to face a recall election. Is the California recall in the best interests of its citizens? Or is this recall election an example of direct democracy gone awry? And what long-term effects will this recall campaign have on politics at both the state and national levels?
Make Ticker Tape Parades Great Again: A Conversation With Peter Thiel
AUDIO ONLY
In this wide-ranging conversation, Thiel discusses his politics, his campaign, and the scourge of totalitarian conformism in the United States and abroad; the problem with “following the science”; where President Biden deserves the blame and where he doesn’t; and why cryptocurrency may just save the world.
Rally round the Constitution
What sustains the conservative agenda? What makes it distinctive and coherent? In a word, principle. By Peter Berkowitz.
Profiles in Political Courage
Clarity of purpose is only half of a winning political strategy. The other half involves a clear understanding of the possible. By Peter Berkowitz.
Uncommon Knowledge With Jeb Bush
Uncommon Knowledge: Governor Jeb Bush
In Florida, where Democrats outnumber Republicans, Governor Jeb Bush won both election and reelection by comfortable margins, reformed education, cut taxes, stood up for traditional moral values, and left office after eight years with an approval rating of more than 60 percent. How did he do it? Peter Robinson speaks with Governor Jeb Bush about what it means to be a conservative, his views on America’s current domestic agenda and foreign policy challenges, faith and politics, and the 2007 Republican presidential candidates. Video transcript (32:40)
Matters Of Policy & Politics: The Problem Was Not The President
President Ronald Reagan’s relevancy in this day and age.
A Date with Destiny
Hoover fellow Robert Zelnick, who coached David Frost for his storied broadcast bout with Richard Nixon, shares his glimpse of "the unleashed Nixon." By Caleb Daniloff.
The Mighty Dunn
Why the former footballer is hoping to run for office in California--as a Republican. . . .
American Hero
This is a story about using American politics to promote the highest of ideals and to realize the worthiest of accomplishments...
Kevin McCarthy, the House of Representatives majority leader, on California and the nation
In this Uncommon Knowledge interview, Peter sits down with House majority leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Bakersfield, CA) to discuss what the majority leader does and what it takes to be one.
Should Middle-Class Americans Subsidize $100,000-A-Year Pensions For Government Workers?
Greece this past weekend saw the worst rioting since the debt crisis began. . . .
California Keeps On Dreaming
Reporting on the agreement last week to close the state budget gap here in California, The New York Times adopted a tone of gloom and despair...
Mitt Romney's Big-Government Health Care Plan
Mitt Romney appears to have changed his mind once again about the statewide health care program he enacted as governor of Massachusetts...
Big Business Gives Gov. Brown a Free Pass
The news broke in early September, so technically it wasn’t an “October surprise.” Still, word that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce endorsed freshman Democratic Rep. Scott Peters instead of his Republican challenger, Carl DeMaio, in California’s 52nd Congressional District in San Diego County raised an eyebrow or two.
Gov. Bobby Jindal's autobiography, 'On Solid Ground,' available for presale
Although it is five months from publication, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal's co-authored autobiography and political treatise has gone on sale for advance copies with a working title and an ambitious promise to provide a "bold vision for renewing the GOP and our nation." . . .
The Problem With California
The state of California employs some two-and-a-quarter million people, includes almost 400 state agencies, oversees 29 different legal codes, administers a tax code that runs to more than 60,000 clauses or sections and spends more than $100 billion a year...