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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 ...
Peter Berkowitz’s Five Books
His reading list focuses on how liberty is won, lost, and neglected. By Jonathan Rauch.
Substance versus style
Hoover Fellow Peter Berkowitz has a scathingly accurate analysis of higher education in today’s Wall Street Journal op-ed page. . . .
Berkowitz discusses liberal bias on college campuses on KQED’s Forum
Peter Berkowitz, the Tad and Dianne Taube Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, discusses whether or not students at the University of California are receiving a biased and compromised education from activist professors.
Berkowitz discusses his op-ed “Professors Proselytizing Liberalism”
Peter Berkowitz, the Tad and Dianne Taube Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, chair of the Koret-Taube Task Force on National Security and Law, and cochair of the the Boyd and Jill Smith Task Force on Virtues of a Free Society, notes, on Wall Street Journal TV, that public colleges are legally obligated to keep the classrooms free of politics and that classrooms should be places where students are free to explore ideas.
Do Campuses Tilt Left?
Every once in a while, something you read is so otherwise inexplicable that satire seems the safest bet...
Read My Lips
A few years ago I asked a friend and business owner why he put value on a college diploma when talking with entry level talent who had majored in subjects incredibly tangential to his job descriptions. . . .
What is a University For?
Peter Berkowitz on Education’s End: Why Our Colleges and Universities Have Given Up on the Meaning of Life by Anthony T. Kronman
How State Lawmakers Can Restore Freedom On Campus
Use the power of the purse to abolish speech codes—making public colleges into a model for private ones.
It’s Racial Indoctrination Day At An Upscale Chicagoland School
As administrators foist ‘social justice’ on 4,000 suburban students, parents plead for balance.
What’s The Point Of A Liberal Education? Don’t Ask The Ivy League
Few top colleges explain their purpose to students. They want to talk gender and inequality instead.
Teaching The Federalist
What happens when South Korean students take a close look at American democracy. By Peter Berkowitz.
Conservatism and the University Curriculum
The political science departments at elite private universities such as Harvard and Yale, at leading small liberal arts colleges like Swarthmore and Williams, and at distinguished large public universities like the University of Maryland and the University of California, Berkeley, offer undergraduates a variety of courses on a range of topics...
Academia Goes Silent on Free Speech
Professors have a professional interest in—indeed a professional duty to uphold—liberty of thought and discussion...
Climategate Was an Academic Disaster Waiting to Happen
The notion of objective truth has been abandoned and the peer review process gives scholars ample opportunity to reward friends and punish enemies. . . .
A Boot Camp for Citizenship
Civics education must not be indoctrination, but it also must not be overlooked. By Peter Berkowitz.
Educating the University
Peter Berkowitz on Restoring Free Speech and Liberty on Campus by Donald Alexander Downs
Literature in Theory
Peter Berkowitz on Theory’s Empire: An Anthology of Dissent edited by Daphne Patai and Will H. Corral
Breakdown in the Academy
Peter Berkowitz on The Marketplace of Ideas: Reform and Resistance in the American University by Louis Menand