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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. 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 ...

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    The Poverty of Obama's Pragmatism

    Research | Articles | by Peter Berkowitz
    Saturday, November 8, 2014

    During his meteoric rise to the White House, President Obama was touted as a pragmatist -- one who overcomes ideology, transcends partisanship, and focuses on the practical and doable. The stunning repudiation of the president’s leadership on Nov. 4 exhibits the poverty of his brand of pragmatism.

    The message from Massachusetts

    Research | Articles | by Peter Berkowitz
    Wednesday, January 20, 2010

    On Tuesday, Massachusetts voters delivered a stunning rebuke to the transformative agenda obdurately pursued by President Barack Obama, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, and their minions. . . .

    The New Progressivism: Same as the Old Progressivism?

    Research | Articles | by Peter Berkowitz
    Thursday, January 21, 2010

    To understand the sometimes glaring gaps between candidate Obama’s promises and President Obama’s policies, it is useful to appreciate an old tension in American progressivism. . . .

    Faking Left

    Research | Articles
    Monday, May 11, 2009

    Among their many aspirations for his presidency, Barack Obama’s admirers nurse a persistent hope that he might be able to end the culture wars...

    Obama’s Empathy Test

    Research | Articles | by Peter Berkowitz
    Monday, July 13, 2009

    In discharging their constitutional duty to provide advice and, if they deem appropriate, give consent to President Barack Obama’s nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court, Senators should examine the critical importance the president attaches to empathy...

    Mitt Romney's Voodoo Dolls

    Research | Articles
    Thursday, August 20, 2009

    Defeated at nearly every level in the 2008 elections, Republicans were supposed to be using the current four-year stretch in purgatory to rethink the issues, redefine themselves as a party, and (most of all) select a charismatic leader to get them back in the game...

    Gary Becker Interview

    Research | Articles | by David R. Henderson
    Saturday, March 27, 2010

    In today's Wall Street Journal, Hoover's Peter Robinson reports on an interview with Gary Becker. . . .

    There's a reason why Obama has to persuade his own party to support his Afghan plan

    Research | Articles | by Kori Schake
    Wednesday, December 2, 2009

    I disagree somewhat with my friend Peter Feaver about the president's plan for Afghanistan deserving the support of us loyal opposition. . . .

    Schweizer discusses the air force jet fuel uproar on Fox News

    Research | Videos
    Tuesday, July 24, 2012

    Peter Schweizer, the William J. Casey Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution and a former consultant to NBC News, discusses how Congress and the government, in giving sweetheart contracts to friends and big donors, cause a tremendous waste of taxpayer dollars.

    Thomas Sowell on Intellectuals and Society: Chapter 2 of 5

    Research | Articles | by Peter M. Robinson
    Tuesday, January 5, 2010

    Thomas Sowell offers examples of why intellectuals are so often wrong about economics. . . .

    Gary Becker's Optimism

    Research | Articles
    Tuesday, March 30, 2010

    The Nobel Prize winner says Americans don't want expansion of government. . . .

    Can Obama’s Big Speech Win Over His Skeptics?

    Research | Articles
    Wednesday, January 27, 2010

    President Obama heads to the Capital on Wednesday for his first State of the Union address, facing an approval rating below 50 percent. . . .

    How Obama Can Win Back The Public

    Research | Articles | by Peter M. Robinson
    Friday, December 11, 2009

    The President should take a page from Francois Mitterand. . . .

    Kennedy's Secret Soviet Overture Against Reagan

    Research | Articles
    Saturday, August 29, 2009

    President Ronald Reagan and Sen. Ted Kennedy were good friends, according to Nancy Reagan...

    Whom Do You Trust?

    Research | Articles
    Tuesday, March 30, 2010

    Everyone seems to need a narrative of good against evil -- even people who don't believe in God or in Satan. . . .

    Should Middle-Class Americans Subsidize $100,000-A-Year Pensions For Government Workers?

    Research | Articles
    Monday, March 8, 2010

    Greece this past weekend saw the worst rioting since the debt crisis began. . . .

    Triumph Of The Tea Party

    Research | Articles | by Peter M. Robinson
    Friday, January 22, 2010

    Don't thank Republicans, business leaders or the media for saving the U.S. . . .

    Money for Nothing — and Corruption for Free

    Research | Articles | by Peter Schweizer
    Tuesday, January 27, 2009

    “He comes to Washington and tells me a sad story,” Franklin D. Roosevelt once said of New York Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia...

    Neither Moderate Nor Centrist

    Research | Articles | by Peter M. Robinson
    Friday, March 6, 2009

    "To see what is in front of one's nose," George Orwell famously asserted, "needs a constant struggle."

    Rahe Of Sunshine

    Research | Articles | by Peter M. Robinson
    Friday, December 4, 2009

    Paul Rahe, a professor at Hillsdale College, believes the country is going to hell in a hand basket. . . .

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