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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...
A Warning System for "Disturbing" College Courses?
Since the late 1960s, the movies have had in place a rating system designed to inform viewers of the suitability of films for various audiences.
How to Improve Our Colleges and Universities
Liberal education is in decline.
No More “Party of No”
The Word According to Tom Wolfe
Peter Robinson engages America’s master novelist in a conversation that ranges from the death of the American novel to the “charming aristocracy” that seeks to dictate literary standards to the intersection of culture and the latest findings in neuroscience. Along the way, Tom Wolfe reaffirms his place as the preeminent chronicler of the changing American scene. (35:51) Video transcript
God and Man at Dartmouth
Two years ago in my Standard column "Bucking the deans at Dartmouth," I placed the trustee election in which Peter Robinson and Todd Zywicki were running in the context of William F. Buckley's historic contribution to the conservative cause...
Students Present 2018 Teaching Awards To Three Esteemed Faculty Members
The Dartmouth Fracas
Ho-hum about the clash of civilizations…
Goliath at Work
Last Dartmouth post of the day, I promise....
Literature in Theory
Peter Berkowitz on Theory’s Empire: An Anthology of Dissent edited by Daphne Patai and Will H. Corral
Educating the University
Peter Berkowitz on Restoring Free Speech and Liberty on Campus by Donald Alexander Downs
On College Campuses, a Presumption of Guilt
SWARTHMORE, Pa. -- On Feb. 22, in celebration of its sesquicentennial, Swarthmore College proudly hosted “The Liberal Arts in Action: A Symposium on the Future of Liberal Arts.”
The DA, Duke Lacrosse and Higher-Ed Hypocrisy
Duke is back in the news. As befits a great university, its travails have implications for higher education in America and for public life throughout the country.
Breakdown in the Academy
Peter Berkowitz on The Marketplace of Ideas: Reform and Resistance in the American University by Louis Menand
Hoover senior fellow Stephen Haber was awarded the Allan V. Cox Medal for faculty excellence in fostering undergraduate research
Stephen Haber, the Peter and Helen Bing Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and the A. A. and Jeanne Welch Milligan Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences at Stanford, where he is a professor of political science and professor of history, was awarded the 2009 Allan V. Cox Medal.
Better Angels
Why Abraham Lincoln matters—even now. By Shelby Steele.
The Education Exchange: Remembering Nathan Glazer
Nathan Glazer, urban sociologist and scholar of ethnicity, race and education, died recently at the age of 95. On this episode, Peter Skerry, Professor of Political Science at Boston College, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss Glazer’s work and the ideas he wrestled with.
Heather Mac On The Crazy Campus Victim Culture
If the West falls into a Leftist Dark Age, it will not because many people didn’t fight tooth and nail to stop it occurring. I have linked to Heather Mac Donald before and I make no apology for doing so again. She is interviewed here by the brilliant Peter Robinson at the Hoover Institution.
American Hero
This is a story about using American politics to promote the highest of ideals and to realize the worthiest of accomplishments...
Tom Sowell Melts the Ivory Tower
Continuing our discussion of his new book, Economic Facts and Fallacies, Thomas Sowell turns his gaze to the American academy...
The High Cost of Loving Dartmouth
The role of the college trustee is endlessly nibbled about in academic politics...