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Peter Berkowitz is the Tad and Dianne Taube Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. Since 2019, he has been serving on the State Department’s Policy Planning Staff in the office of the secretary. He is a 2017 winner of the ...
Peter Berkowitz On The John Batchelor Show (19:22)
Hoover Institution fellow Peter Berkowitz discusses his Real Clear Politics article "Double Jeopardy At The University Of California."
Gay Marriage and the Supreme Court
Richard Epstein the Peter and Kirsten Bedford Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, analyzes the difficulties facing the Supreme Court in challenges to California's gay marriage ban (Proposition 8) and the Defense of Marriage Act.
California's Geriatric Liberal Leadership
Next year marks a century since Lulu Hunt Peters, a Californian by way of Maine, gifted the world with “Diet and Health: With Key to the Calories.”
How Climate Change Came To Shape Jerry Brown’s Legacy
On the last weekend in May, Gov. Jerry Brown traveled to a cabin on the Russian River to help spread the cremains of Peter Finnegan, one of his oldest friends.
California’s Economy–Lots of Zeroes, Lots of Contradictions Having to Do with Wealth, Opportunity, and Livability
Good luck trying to get your arms–and your head–around the enormity of California’s economy. Last month, the state’s 2015 gross domestic product (GDP: a measure of goods and services) was calculated at $2.46 trillion. That’s trillions, folks, with nine zeros–as in nine shutout innings from Clayton Kershaw, nine Oscar losses suffered by Peter O’Toole and Harrison Ford, or nine months without rain in an area that not so long ago was mired in a historic drought.
California’s Homelessness Crisis: The Beginning Of The End, The End Of The Beginning—Or No End In Sight?
By most measures, Gavin Newsom has had a productive 2019.
“A New Normal”: California’s Increasing Wildfire Risk And What To Do About It
As soon as it hit in October 2017, officials knew the Tubbs Fire was serious. “It’s real bad,” said Cal Fire Battalion Chief Marshall Tuberville. “This is an example of nature in control.”