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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. Since 2019, he has been 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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    BUSH ALMIGHTY: Two Views of George W. Bush

    Research | Videos
    Monday, October 27, 2003

    Admirers and critics have two diametrically opposed views of President George W. Bush. The admirers see a compassionate conservative at home and defender of the nation against terrorism and rogue states abroad. Critics see a radical conservative at home who led the nation into a destructive and unnecessary war abroad. Why do conservatives and liberals so often seem to be describing two different men when discussing President George W. Bush? Is it possible to find any common ground on which view of President Bush is closer to the truth?

    POPE AND CIRCUMSTANCE: The Legacy of Pope John Paul II

    Research | Videos
    Thursday, June 27, 2002

    In 1978, the Polish cardinal Karol Wojtyla was elected to the papacy of the Catholic Church, taking the name John Paul II. In the twenty-four years since, Pope John Paul II has traveled more widely and held audiences for more people than any other pope in history. But beyond his long service and high profile, how will John Paul II be remembered? Will he be remembered more for his political impact—many say that he played a crucial role in the fall of communism in Eastern Europe—or for his ecclesiastical work? Just how well has John Paul II prepared the Catholic Church for the twenty-first century?

    CROSS PURPOSES: The Crusades

    Research | Videos
    Monday, April 22, 2002

    The Crusades happened almost a thousand years ago—why do they still provoke an argument? Osama bin Laden has used them to attempt to rally the Islamic world to his cause; President Bush has called the war on terrorism a "crusade." But what is the truth about the Crusades? Were they motivated by savage greed and intolerance or by pious idealism? Were they an unprovoked attack by the West on the Islamic world or a reaction to centuries of Islamic incursions? How should we understand the legacy of the Crusades today, in a time of conflict between the West and radical Islamic terrorists?

    OF BURKHAS AND BALLOTS: The Future of Democracy in the Arab World

    Research | Videos
    Monday, November 17, 2003

    The spread of democracy around the world was one of the most significant developments of the twentieth century. At the beginning of the last century, democracy was limited to a handful of Western nations, while today perhaps 120 nations have some form of democratic government. Yet among Muslim countries, democracy is rare, and among Arab states, essentially nonexistent. Why? Is the Islamic faith compatible with the essential features of a democratic society—separation of church and state, freedom of expression, and women's rights, to name a few—or not? Just what is the future of democracy in the Arab world?

    PROPHETS AND LOSSES: The Rise and Decline of Islamic Civilization

    Research | Videos
    Monday, November 17, 2003

    For nearly a thousand years after the death of the prophet Muhammad, the Islamic world was powerful, creative, and self-confident. In science, in trade, and in the arts, Muslim civilization rivaled and often surpassed the best achievements of the European world. But beginning sometime around the seventeenth century, Islamic power and dynamism began to wane, to be eclipsed by the West. Today, by nearly every measure of social and economic development, Islamic nations fall far short of Western nations. Why? Did the historical rise and decline of Islam result from processes internal to the Muslim world or from its interaction with the West? What can and should be done to revive Islamic civilization?

    An Unpredictable Wind

    Research | Articles | by Peter Berkowitz
    Wednesday, July 13, 2011

    The causes, the players, and the likely consequences of the Arab eruptions. A conversation with Hoover fellows Peter Berkowitz, Victor Davis Hanson, and Peter Robinson.

    Answering Edward Said

    Research | Articles | by Peter Berkowitz
    Monday, June 2, 2008

    Peter Berkowitz on Defending the West: A Critique of Edward Said's Orientalism by Ibn Warraq

    Civil Liberties After Boston

    Research | Podcasts | by Richard A. Epstein
    Wednesday, May 1, 2013

    Richard Epstein, the Peter and Kirsten Bedford Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, discusses the rule of law and how it applies to alleged Boston bomber Dzhokar Tsarnaev.

    In Defense of WWII: Chapter 2 of 5

    Research | Articles | by Peter M. Robinson
    Tuesday, July 29, 2008

    Buchanan describes the Holocaust as a consequence of WWII; without that war, it may not have occurred...

    Spinoza's Religion

    Research | Articles | by Peter Berkowitz
    Friday, June 1, 2007

    Peter Berkowitz on Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew who Gave us Modernity by Rebecca Goldstein.

    “To Change the Church” With Ross Douthat

    Research | Videos
    Wednesday, April 4, 2018

    Pope Francis and the Future of Catholicism.

    Can The Holocaust Be Explained?

    Research | Articles | by Josef Joffe
    Friday, April 14, 2017

    A new batch of books by Laurence Rees, Peter Hayes and David Cesarani tries to crack the puzzle: Why the Jews? And why the Germans? Josef Joffe reviews.

    How the West Really Lost God

    Research | Articles | by Mary Eberstadt
    Friday, June 1, 2007

    A new look at secularization.

    The Death Of Europe, With Douglas Murray

    Research | Podcasts
    Monday, October 7, 2019

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    Has increased immigration to EU member nations created distrust and delusion, contributing to a continent in the grip of a culture in the midst of its own suicide?

    Ross Douthat’s Decadent Society

    Research | Podcasts
    Tuesday, June 2, 2020

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    In his new book, The Decadent Society, New York Times columnist Ross Douthat presents a theory: “Western society stopped advancing in the second half of the 20th century."

    Fear No Evil With Natan Sharansky

    Research | Videos
    Tuesday, March 13, 2018

    Why the long communist experiment in the former USSR still matters today

    “To Change the Church” With Ross Douthat

    Research | Podcasts
    Wednesday, April 4, 2018

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    Pope Francis and the Future of Catholicism. 

     

    Religion Within Reason

    Research | Articles | by Mark Gould
    Saturday, December 1, 2007

    Pope Benedict’s Critique of Islam

    Niebuhr and Obama

    Research | Articles | by Liam Julian
    Wednesday, April 1, 2009

    What does the president’s taste for the theologian foretell?

    John Paul II, Intellectual

    Research | Articles | by Damon Linker
    Sunday, October 1, 2000

    A secular look at one of the century’s deepest thinkers

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