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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...
Reclaiming Our Birthright
To endure the storms of the new decade, cling to the anchor: personal autonomy.
A Letter To The U.S. Commission On International Religious Freedom
To the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom
Calming the Political Waters
How to Bring Conservatives Together
Raise the banner of individual liberty and govern under it.
American Exceptionalism And The 2016 Campaign
Contrasting positions on American exceptionalism go to the heart of what distinguishes the 2016 Republican presidential field from its Democratic counterpart.
Will Liberals Reconsider Criminalizing Politics?
Lessons from the Supreme Court, the Bush administration, and Hillary Clinton.
Trump Can Help Debunk Alleged College "Rape Culture"
Due process protections for the accused in campus cases alleging sexual assault have been under attack for decades.
The Plague Of Identity Politics, Part Two
Peter Schuck's Rx for Big Government's Ills
According to the dominant narrative—advanced by President Obama, embraced by the Democratic Party, and disseminated by their many advocates in the prestige media—the federal government isn’t working as well
E.J. Dionne Misunderstands the Tea Party
On Oct. 22, Washington Post columnist E. J.
The Impeachment Handbook With John Yoo & Richard Epstein
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The impeachment proceedings against President Trump has now reached the Senate and to help our viewers navigate the legal and political issues surrounding it, Peter Robinson sits down with the Hoover Institution’s Visiting Fellow John Yoo and Senior Fellow Richard Epstein, two of the foremost legal scholars in the country.
Criticisms Of Comey And Mueller Aren’t ‘Character Assassination’
In his efforts to refute Charles Cooke’s recent exposé of Jennifer Rubin, I was surprised to see David Frum, in passing, attack my Hoover colleague, legal scholar Peter Berkowitz (a “Sean Hannity–style character assassination of James Comey and Special Counsel Robert Mueller”), for suggesting, in a prescient October WSJ opinion column, that the Mueller investigation into Russian collusion may well be ethically compromised (in its zeal to go after those not accused of collusion)—in even greater fashion than was the Comey investigation of Hillary Clinton (in its absence of zeal to indict for clear violations of U.S. intelligence law).
The debate and the crises to come
The word "terrorism" came up only once during a 2000 presidential debate...
When Academic Freedom Lost its Meaning
Late last week, the University of Nebraska rescinded an invitation to William Ayers to speak on its campus after the election...
Debates should be more than sound bites
Presidential debates are among the most watched broadcasts on TV, rarely surpassed by programming other than the Super Bowl and the most hotly contested NFL conference championships...
Supposing Obama Were a Bipartisan
In August 2004, a then-obscure Illinois state senator delivered a dazzling keynote address at the Democratic National Convention...
What you need to know that the Candidates aren’t telling you
In what may be the longest running presidential campaign in U.S. history, the focus has changed from the economy to foreign affairs and back again...
Up From Liberalism, Part Two
Tonight, I attended a party celebrating the release of the book Why I Turned Right...
New Media and Old
The pre-election message, pronounced separately by a trio of distinguished professors but reflecting broader anxieties among Democratic Party activists and media elites, was grim...