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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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    Yale Gives In To The Grievance Culture

    Research | Articles | by Peter Berkowitz
    Friday, November 20, 2015

    On Tuesday, November 17, Yale University president Peter Salovey sent an email addressed to “Members of the Yale Community,” including the university’s far flung alumni. In the wake of unrest on campus the last few weeks over Halloween costumes, “safe spaces,” diversity, and free speech, Salovey expressed his determination “to build a more inclusive Yale.”

    A Misguided Resolution To The Culture Wars

    Research | Articles | by Peter Berkowitz
    Monday, October 19, 2015

    Thirty years after the phrase came into vogue, the culture wars are alive and well—and more heated and complex than ever. A comprehensive peace is not in the cards.

    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.

    Women And The Workplace-Parenthood Squeeze

    Research | Articles | by Peter Berkowitz
    Tuesday, September 29, 2015

    In her new book, “Unfinished Business: Women, Men, Work, Family,” Anne-Marie Slaughter, the president and CEO of the Washington-based think tank New America, argues that while we have made great progress, we must still knock down plenty of “obstacles and barriers to true equality.”

    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. 

    That Was Fast

    Research | Articles
    Friday, June 26, 2015

    Not long ago, same-sex marriage was a cause advanced by a handful of activists. Now it’s the law of the land. How did that happen?

    Judith Miller's "Story": Setting The Record Straight

    Research | Articles | by Peter Berkowitz
    Wednesday, April 8, 2015

    “In the spring of 2002, a year before the invasion of Iraq, I was at the peak of my profession,” Judith Miller writes in the prologue to “The Story: A Reporter's Journey,” her compelling account of her life in journalism.

    Reporter's Book Details 'False Evidence' Against 'Scooter' Libby

    Research | Articles
    Tuesday, April 14, 2015

    A new book by former New York Times reporter Judith Miller, "The Story: A Reporter's Journey", claims that former White House adviser I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby was convicted of obstruction of justice and perjury through improperly manipulated testimony and withholding of crucial evidence in his 2007 trial.

    University's Free Speech Policy Is the Exception, Sadly

    Research | Articles | by Peter Berkowitz
    Saturday, January 24, 2015

    The good news is that on January 6, the University of Chicago published the “Report of the Committee on Freedom of Expression.” Chaired by law professor Geoffrey R. Stone and consisting of six other professors, the committee forcefully affirmed the centrality to the university’s mission of the principles of free speech. The bad news is that the good news is news at all.

    Book Review: In a Fragmented Age, Spotlighting the Core of What Unites Us

    Research | Articles | by Peter Berkowitz
    Sunday, November 30, 2014

    It is a commonplace belief that contemporary life's dizzying pace of change and its rapid multiplication of choices have fragmented American culture. The conflict between religion and secularism is only the most longstanding and obvious division.

    American Creed

    Research | Articles | by Peter Berkowitz
    Sunday, July 15, 2007

    What have people meant across the generations when they say, "I believe in America"?

    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...

    The New New Atheism

    Research | Articles | by Peter Berkowitz
    Monday, July 16, 2007

    "There is nothing new under the sun," proclaims the Book of Ecclesiastes...

    When Academic Freedom Lost its Meaning

    Research | Articles
    Friday, October 24, 2008

    Late last week, the University of Nebraska rescinded an invitation to William Ayers to speak on its campus after the election...

    A Plan To Restore Free Speech On Campus

    Research | Articles
    Sunday, December 6, 2015

    The slowly metastasizing assault on free speech that has played out on American college campuses since the 1960s has reached a crisis point. What’s needed is a concrete plan to restore liberty of thought and discussion to the American academy — a plan capable of focusing the support of sympathetic students, faculty, parents, alumni, administrators, trustees, and citizens, and their elected representatives.

    Marxist Spirit Underpins Campus Protests

    Research | Articles | by Peter Berkowitz
    Tuesday, December 15, 2015

    The latest rounds of student rage over alleged racial discrimination—and the subsequent administrative acquiescence to student demands—at American universities should come as no surprise. For decades U.S. institutions of higher education have cultivated an obsession with supposedly hidden-but-ubiquitous oppression.

    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.

    Obama and Islam: A Tale of Three Speeches

    Research | Articles | by Peter Berkowitz
    Tuesday, September 23, 2014

    Speeches -- even or especially when they are intended to obscure the truth -- reveal something of the convictions of the speech giver and clarify his opinions about the character of his audience.

    The Poverty of Obama's Pragmatism

    Research | Articles | by Peter Berkowitz
    Saturday, November 8, 2014

    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.

    Tradition--The Beating Heart Of A Democracy

    Research | Articles | by Peter Berkowitz
    Tuesday, January 13, 2015

    Conservatives have enjoyed quite a comeback since the winter of 2009. But the inherent tension in the conservative imperative to blend liberty and tradition ensures that their path forward will be anything but certain.

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