Search
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 On The John Batchelor Show
Hoover Institution fellow Peter Berkowitz discusses the decline of religious freedom in America.
That Was Fast
Not long ago, same-sex marriage was a cause advanced by a handful of activists. Now it’s the law of the land. How did that happen?
Religious Freedom Isn't Baked Into Wedding Cake Ruling
Last week in Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, the Supreme Court threaded the needle. Whether the thread will hold is uncertain. Justice Anthony Kennedy’s narrowly crafted majority opinion protected religious liberty without impairing gay rights.
The Left's Hollow Complaints About Hobby Lobby
Progressives are fond of saying that they stand for empathy and compromise, and are quick to blame conservatives for polarizing our politics. Their feverish reaction last week to the Supreme Court’s thoughtful 5-4 decision in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. shows that progressives could use more of the virtues they claim as their own.
Obama’s Empathy Test
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...
INALIENABLE RITES? Gay Marriage in the Courts
On March 14, 2005, a California Superior Court judge ruled that the state's ban on same-sex marriage violated the state constitution. Although the decision is certain to be appealed up to the California Supreme Court, California may now be on the road to joining Massachusetts in legalizing gay marriage. Did the Superior Court judge decide correctly? Just how compelling are the constitutional arguments for and against gay marriage? Peter Robinson speaks with Terry Thompson and Tobias Wolff.
A FAMILY TRADITION: Gay Marriage
Given recent trends at both local and federal levels, most notably the Supreme Court decision striking down the Texas antihomosexual sodomy law, it would appear that legal recognition of gay marriage may be just a matter of time. Should gay marriage be granted legal recognition? Are same-sex couples who are not allowed to marry under current law being denied equal protection of the law? How would recognition of gay marriage alter the traditional purpose of marriage? And would gay marriage erode support for families or strengthen it?
Veiled Threat?
France may have a case for banning the burqa. By Peter Berkowitz.
A Boot Camp for Citizenship
Civics education must not be indoctrination, but it also must not be overlooked. By Peter Berkowitz.
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.
Politics Makes Strange Bedfellows
Why John Yoo is suddenly going soft on Obama. . . .
Triumph Of The Tea Party
Don't thank Republicans, business leaders or the media for saving the U.S. . . .
The Roots Of Liberalism
A near quadrupling of the federal deficit in 2009 alone. The nationalization of the Detroit automakers...
Law and Justice with Antonin Scalia: Chapter 5 of 5
Justice Antonin Scalia fields questions about his career, his family, his opinions, his faith, his colleagues, his legacy, and the fate of the Constitution...
Politics & Catholics with Charles Chaput: Chapter 4 of 5
Archbishop Chaput has written that “The logic behind abortion makes all human rights politically contingent.”...
Immigration bill's demise suggests many are OK with status quo
The collapse of the giant immigration overhaul in the Senate might demonstrate that the dreaded status quo -- 12 million people living in the country illegally and more arriving each day -- is not really so dreadful after all...
Ending the Palestinian ‘Right of Return’
Frontier Wisdom
Senator Tom Cotton, Immigration Reform, And The RAISE Act
Reforming current legal immigration and refugee legislation.