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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 Discusses Democracy On The John Batchelor Show (30:15)
Hoover Institution fellow Peter Berkowitz discusses the threat to democracy worldwide with a focus on democracy in Europe.
Peter Berkowitz’s Five Books
His reading list focuses on how liberty is won, lost, and neglected. By Jonathan Rauch.
Restoring Prosperity: Contemporary And Historical Perspectives
Peter Berkowitz, the Tad and Dianne Taube Senior Fellow at Hoover, speaks on “Restoring Prosperity: Contemporary and Historical Perspectives.”
American Creed
What have people meant across the generations when they say, "I believe in America"?
Speak Up!
Colleges and universities honor free inquiry in theory, but not always in fact. How to keep higher education true to its values.
Anti-Liberal Zealotry Part V: Rediscovering Liberalism
In “Why Liberalism Failed,” Patrick Deneen makes an eye-opening contribution to the critique of liberalism. Equating liberalism with the modern tradition of freedom, he distills abuses of state power, nature, culture, technology, and education that are undertaken in freedom’s name yet leave citizens less self-sufficient, less disposed to cooperate, and less capable of looking beyond material goods and social status to the cultivation of character and to the claims of duty.
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.
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.
James Comey And Robert Mueller Imperil The Rule Of Law
The former FBI directors tend to investigate Republicans far more zealously than Democrats.
An Unpredictable Wind
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.
Teaching The Federalist
What happens when South Korean students take a close look at American democracy. By Peter Berkowitz.
A Boot Camp for Citizenship
Civics education must not be indoctrination, but it also must not be overlooked. By Peter Berkowitz.
Universal Questioner
Hoover fellow Peter Berkowitz on Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, the late Soviet dissident and honorary Hoover fellow to whom “one word of truth outweighed the whole world.”
Religion in America
Peter Berkowitz on American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us by Robert D. Putnam and David E. Campbell, with the assistance of Shaylyn Romney Garrett.
No More “Party of No”
Gentlemen Revolutionaries
Peter Berkowitz on Revolutionary Characters: What Made The Founders Different by Gordon Wood
A Date with Destiny
Hoover fellow Robert Zelnick, who coached David Frost for his storied broadcast bout with Richard Nixon, shares his glimpse of "the unleashed Nixon." By Caleb Daniloff.