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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...
Peter Berkowitz’s Five Books
His reading list focuses on how liberty is won, lost, and neglected. By Jonathan Rauch.
Going Backwards in Beirut
Hezbollah still holds power despite losing the election. . . .
Netanyahu Surprises at 10th Annual Herzliya Conference
A willingness to seek political negotiations with the Palestinians is a departure for Israel's prime minister. . . .
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...
Pacific Century: Trapped In Ukraine With Peter Van Praagh
A report from on the ground in Ukraine.
The Rise and Fall of Osama Bin Laden: A Conversation with Peter Bergen
In this episode of Battlegrounds, H.R. McMaster and Peter Bergen discuss the history and evolution of jihadist terrorist groups, their objectives, and the implications for international security.
H.R. McMaster in conversation with Peter Bergen on Tuesday, September 7 at 9:00am PT.
Secrets Of Statecraft: Peter Robinson on the Art of Writing Ronald Reagan’s Speeches
If you have ever been asked to deliver a speech in public (or even if you haven’t), listen to a master of the genre Peter Robinson speak of the humor, honesty, and honing involved in writing over 150 speeches for a U.S. President.
Strategika: "The Legacy of 9/11," with Peter Mansoor
Fifteen years later, how have the September 11 attacks shaped the West's response to the threat of terrorism.
Make Ticker Tape Parades Great Again: A Conversation With Peter Thiel
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In this wide-ranging conversation, Thiel discusses his politics, his campaign, and the scourge of totalitarian conformism in the United States and abroad; the problem with “following the science”; where President Biden deserves the blame and where he doesn’t; and why cryptocurrency may just save the world.
The 2016 Fall Retreat
The 2016 Fall Retreat, which took place during October 16–18, the talks were for the first time organized around a single theme: American exceptionalism.
Veiled Threat?
France may have a case for banning the burqa. 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.”
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.”
Uncommon Knowledge and the Hoover Institution Commemorate the 30th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall
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The Hoover Institution Commemorate the 30th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall.
The Speech That Defined a Presidency
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The 30th Anniversary Of The Fall Of The Berlin Wall
Hoover Institution fellow Peter Robinson as well as many scholars and historians review the history of the Berlin Wall.
A Discussion On Russia And Ukraine
Peter Meijer in conversation with Michael McFaul on Thursday, February 17, 2022 at 1:00 PM ET.
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.
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.