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    Peter Berkowitz

    Tad and Dianne Taube Senior Fellow

    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 ...

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    Peter Berkowitz on the John Batchelor Show (19:49)

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    Wednesday, April 3, 2013
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    Peter Berkowitz On The John Batchelor Show (29:34)

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    Tuesday, June 9, 2015

    Hoover Institution fellow Peter Berkowitz gives his thoughts on how schools are not doing a good job teaching world and civic history. 

    Peter Berkowitz’s Five Books

    Research | Articles | by Peter Berkowitz
    Wednesday, January 12, 2011

    His reading list focuses on how liberty is won, lost, and neglected. By Jonathan Rauch.

    Assumption College’s Ecumenical Institute presents “Defending Liberal Education"

    Research | Articles
    Thursday, January 24, 2008

    A lecture by law, ethics and political scholar Peter Berkowitz, at 7 p.m. Feb. 7 in the Salon of La Maison Francaise, 500 Salisbury St...

    Substance versus style

    Research | Articles
    Monday, March 15, 2010

    Hoover Fellow Peter Berkowitz has a scathingly accurate analysis of higher education in today’s Wall Street Journal op-ed page. . . .

    Berkowitz discusses how colleges neglect core US principles on the John Batchelor Show

    Research | Podcasts | by Peter Berkowitz
    Thursday, January 17, 2013

    Peter Berkowitz, the Tad and Dianne Taube Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, notes that the trench warfare between President Obama’s Democratic Party and the House-led Republicans over the budget, entitlements, and regulation reflects a profound and historic difference of opinion over the size and scope of the federal government. Accurately understanding what’s at stake in this struggle requires knowledge of American history. But that’s exactly the kind of subject liberal education is denying today’s college students.

    Does Harvard Hate Humanities?

    Research | Articles | by Peter Berkowitz
    Friday, June 28, 2013
    Friday, June 28, 2013 Peter Berkowitz Weekly Standard Hoover Daily Report Friday, June 28, 2013 ...

    California Higher-Ed: Regents Deny Critics a Fair Hearing

    Research | Articles | by Peter Berkowitz
    Tuesday, February 19, 2013
    Tuesday, February 19, 2013 Peter Berkowitz Real Clear Politics Hoover Daily Report Tuesday, ...

    California Higher Education's Hollow Core

    Research | Articles | by Peter Berkowitz
    Wednesday, August 29, 2012
    Wednesday, August 29, 2012 Peter Berkowitz Real Clear Politics Hoover Daily Report Wednesday, ...

    Berkowitz discusses his op-ed “Professors Proselytizing Liberalism”

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    Friday, March 30, 2012

    Peter Berkowitz, the Tad and Dianne Taube Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, chair of the Koret-Taube Task Force on National Security and Law, and cochair of the the Boyd and Jill Smith Task Force on Virtues of a Free Society, notes, on Wall Street Journal TV, that public colleges are legally obligated to keep the classrooms free of politics and that classrooms should be places where students are free to explore ideas.

    Harvard's Curriculum Scrutinized

    Research | Articles
    Wednesday, September 5, 2007

    In a lengthy piece in today's Wall Street Journal (subscribers only), Peter Berkowitz, a senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution, and teacher at the George Mason University School of Law, raises timely questions about the requirements of a genuine liberal education...

    Harvard Law vs. Free Inquiry

    Research | Articles | by Peter Berkowitz
    Monday, May 17, 2010

    Dean Martha Minow flunks the test...

    Leo Strauss' Political Philosophy: Reviled But Redeemed

    Research | Articles | by Peter Berkowitz
    Saturday, August 16, 2014

    “Always assume that there is one silent student in your class who is by far superior to you in head and in heart.” This is the counsel Leo Strauss, among the most consequential teachers and scholars of political philosophy in the 20th century, offered an advanced graduate student who had asked for a general rule about teaching.

    God and Man at Yale Turns 60

    Research | Articles | by Peter Berkowitz
    Saturday, November 5, 2011
    That students have felt the need and had the opportunity to increase exposure to conservative ideas on campus is a tribute to the intellectual and political movement Buckley launched...

    Do Campuses Tilt Left?

    Research | Articles | by Mary Eberstadt
    Monday, April 9, 2007

    Every once in a while, something you read is so otherwise inexplicable that satire seems the safest bet...

    So You Want to Be a Professor

    Research | Articles
    Thursday, April 23, 2009

    Late last month, the Web site Inside Higher Ed reported that several universities were shrinking the number of students admitted to their Ph.D. programs this year...

    Read My Lips

    Research | Articles
    Tuesday, March 16, 2010

    A few years ago I asked a friend and business owner why he put value on a college diploma when talking with entry level talent who had majored in subjects incredibly tangential to his job descriptions. . . .

    Getting back to the dream

    Research | Articles
    Wednesday, May 5, 2010

    A program at the Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya, will bring together 25 of the country’s best and brightest students in August in an effort to train the next generation of leaders in the principles of liberal democracy and the ideas that constitute the foundation of the state...

    Big ideas for the 2008 race

    Research | Articles
    Thursday, May 31, 2007

    The presidential race has started extremely early this year. That may or may not be a good thing; Americans may get sick of politics before next November...

    Academic Centers Taking Root on University Campuses

    Research | Articles
    Tuesday, May 1, 2007

    In an effort to restore the teaching of our nation's founding principles at colleges and universities and produce the next generation of professors prepared to effectively teach America's history and institutions, new academic centers of excellence are now active at the University of Chicago; University of Colorado, Boulder; University of Texas, Austin; and Emory University...

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