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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...
Obama's Middle East Gambit
Masters of the art teach that subtlety, indirection, and on occasion mis-direction are crucial to successful diplomacy...
Our Brave New World
Be careful when one uses the superlative case—best, most, -est, etc.—or evokes end-of-the-world imagery...
Teaching The Federalist
What happens when South Korean students take a close look at American democracy. By Peter Berkowitz.
Summer 2013 Board of Overseers’ Meeting at Hoover
The Hoover Institution hosted its annual Board of Overseers’ summer meeting during July 9–11, 2013.
The program began on Tuesday evening with before-dinner remarks by Paul D. Clement, a partner at Bancroft PLLC. Clement served as the forty-third solicitor general of the United States from June 2005 until June 2008. He has argued more than sixty-five cases before the US Supreme Court. During Clement’s speech, titled “Federalism in the Roberts Court,” he talked about the revitalization of federalism in the Rehnquist court “imposing some limits on the federal government’s power vis-a-vis the states.”
The Speech That Defined a Presidency
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Hoover fellow Epstein discusses corporate taxes on the John Batchelor Show
Richard Epstein, the Peter and Kirsten Bedford Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and a member of its Property Rights, Freedom, and Prosperity Task Force, notes that the conscious decision to make Apple the focal point of a special investigation offers a bittersweet commentary on the fragile state of the US political economy.
Arkansas Senator Thomas Cotton on events in Iraq, negotiations with Iran, and life in the US Senate
In this episode of Uncommon Knowledge, Peter sits down with Senator Tom Cotton, a Republican from Arkansas, to examine the many issues facing the nation today.
What's missing in the GOP field? the right message
Conservatives are feeling glum about the crop of Republican presidential contenders...
A New Policy — Just Like the Old Policy
In his first major television interview with Al-Arabiya, President Obama declared that his foreign policy would be different from his predecessor’s...
Immigration bill's demise suggests many are OK with status quo
The collapse of the giant immigration overhaul in the Senate might demonstrate that the dreaded status quo -- 12 million people living in the country illegally and more arriving each day -- is not really so dreadful after all...
Sorry Folks, Veterans Are Not Necessarily Experts On Foreign Policy
As my Foreign Policy colleagues Kori Schake and Peter Feaver have written recently, such partisan endorsements by former military officials are growing more frequent, and risk turning the military into even more of a political football than it already is. "Such political endorsements contribute to toxic civil-military relations," writes Feaver. They "damage ... the norm of a non-partisan military that has served our country well."
Area 45: Richard Epstein: Do Cheaters Prosper?
The balance of virtue and rules flaunting in modern society.
Fear No Evil With Natan Sharansky
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Why the long communist experiment in the former USSR still matters today.
A Most Ingenious Trick
Matt Ridley, author of The Rational Optimist, insists that we humans must face the truth about ourselves—no matter how good it might be. An interview with Peter Robinson.
Frontier Wisdom
Ayaan Hirsi Ali on the West, Dawa, and Islam
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Political Islam as Ideology and Movement and How to Contain It.
Men with a Mission
The Scheinman collection brings to life the story of how two friends, a white American and a black Kenyan, helped African democracy bloom. By Tom Shachtman.