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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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    DIVISIONS AND DECISIONS: The Ethics of Stem Cell Research

    Research | Videos
    Tuesday, September 25, 2001

    In August of 2001, President Bush announced his decision to limit federal funding of stem cell research to already established lines of embryonic stem cells, while forbidding funding for any research that required the destruction of additional human embryos. But his decision ended neither stem cell research nor the debate over the ethics of such research. How do we weigh the medical benefits of this research against the destruction of embryos? Where do we draw the line on research using human embryos and are we on a slippery slope toward even more controversial research?

    Our Brave New World

    Research | Articles | by Victor Davis Hanson
    Saturday, February 7, 2009

    Be careful when one uses the superlative case—best, most, -est, etc.—or evokes end-of-the-world imagery...

    Letter: Feeding the Propaganda of Anti-Technology Activists

    Research | Articles | by Henry I. Miller
    Wednesday, March 17, 2010

    Peter Berkowitz is right to condemn abuses in the peer-review process ("Climategate Was an Academic Disaster Waiting to Happen," op-ed, March 13 ), many of which reflect the biases of both articles' referees and journal editors. . . .

    DARWIN'S GHOST: Sociobiology and Human Behavior

    Research | Videos
    Friday, June 1, 2001

    What can evolutionary science tell us about human behavior? During the past thirty years, biologists, anthropologists, and psychologists have begun applying Darwinian concepts, such as natural selection and survival of the fittest, to the study of behavior. Are social characteristics, such as aggression, love, and courtship, determined by our evolutionary past and encoded into our genes like physical attributes, such as walking upright or hair color? Are we slaves to our DNA, or does genetic determinism fail to explain fully what it means to be human?

    ATTACK OF THE CLONES: The Ethics of Human Cloning

    Research | Videos
    Friday, October 25, 2002

    Cloning—using biotechnology to create embryos with specific genetic information, identical to other embryos or even human adults—used to sound like science fiction. Today, however, the ability to successfully clone human embryos is a matter of when, not if. But should human cloning be allowed to go forward? Is cloning morally wrong, in and of itself? Should we make a distinction between cloning for medical research and cloning for procreation? If cloning is morally wrong, could we stop it even if we wanted to? And if cloning isn't or can't be banned, how should it be regulated?

    FUTURE SHOCK: High Technology and the Human Prospect

    Research | Videos
    Friday, December 7, 2001

    Computers more intelligent than humans? Self-replicating molecular robots? Virtual immortality? These may sound like science fiction, but some reputable computer scientists are predicting they will happen within the next several decades. What will our world be like if and when our machines surpass us in intelligence? Do the advances in biotechnology, robotics, and nanotechnology, which make intelligent machines possible, pose dangers of their own? Should we embrace such a future or try to stop it?

    A LINE IN THE TEST TUBE: The Debate over Stem Cells

    Research | Videos
    Monday, September 20, 2004

    Proponents of embryonic stem cell research proclaim the potential of the research to find cures or treatments for many diseases such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's. Opponents say the use and destruction of human embryos in the conduct of this research are immoral. In 2001, President Bush announced a ban on federal funding involving any new lines of embryonic stem cells. But calls to lift the ban continue, as do movements to increase funding at the state level. Which side of the debate is right? Is embryonic stem cell research ethical or not? Peter Robinson speaks with Ramesh Ponnuru and Irving Weissman.

    Peter Thiel on markets, technology, and education

    Research | Videos
    Friday, October 24, 2014

    In this episode of Uncommon Knowledge, guest Peter Thiel, one of Silicon Valley’s leading investors and thinkers, discusses his new book Zero to One.

    Peter Thiel and Andy Kessler on the state of technology and innovation

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    Thursday, September 19, 2013

    This week on Uncommon Knowledge, host Peter Robinson mediates a discussion between PayPal founder and Stanford Professor Peter Thiel and Velocity Capital Management founder and journalist Andy Kessler on the state of technology and innovation in the United States over the past four decades. Thiel argues that, outside of computers, there has been very little innovation in the past forty years, and the rate of technological change has significantly decreased when compared to the first half of the 20th century. In contrast, Kessler asserts that innovation comes in waves, and we are on the verge of another burst of technological breakthroughs. Industries covered include education, medicine and biotechnology, as well as robots and high tech.

    Summer 2013 Board of Overseers’ Meeting at Hoover

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    Friday, July 12, 2013

    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.”

    Climategate Was an Academic Disaster Waiting to Happen

    Research | Articles | by Peter Berkowitz
    Saturday, March 13, 2010

    The notion of objective truth has been abandoned and the peer review process gives scholars ample opportunity to reward friends and punish enemies. . . .

    The Pathos of the Kass Report

    Research | Articles | by Peter Berkowitz
    Tuesday, October 1, 2002

    Peter Berkowitz on Human Cloning and Human Dignity: An Ethical Inquiry by the President’s Council on Bioethics

    Policy Seminar on Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

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    Monday, November 3, 2014

    Peter Thiel spoke about the basic principles that underlie innovative products and startup firms, using examples from his own experience starting up firms such as Paypal and Palantir. He  emphasized the importance of creating a firm or product with characteristics of monopoly, and contrasted that idea with the distinction between monopoly and competition taught in economics.

    The World According to Thiel

    Research | Podcasts
    Tuesday, February 11, 2020

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    Why Peter Thiel thinks we should rethink the doctrine of American exceptionalism.

    Why FDA recruitment of 'critics'is a problem

    Research | Articles | by Henry I. Miller
    Monday, March 1, 2010

    The News article by Catherine Shaffer in the December issue1 entitled “FDA recruits prominent critics” contends that the “the general response” to the appointment of anti-industry zealot Peter Lurie of Public Citizen “is positive, even among those who don't necessarily agree with Lurie's positions.”. . .

    James Delingpole: Great Britain, the Green Movement, and the End of the World

    Research | Videos
    Wednesday, December 14, 2011

    This week on Uncommon Knowledge columnist James Delingpole discusses, with Hoover research fellow Peter Robinson, the European Union, the Green movement, and socialized medicine. (47:41)

    Politics & Hollywood with Andrew Breitbart: Chapter 4 of 5

    Research | Articles | by Peter M. Robinson
    Thursday, May 28, 2009

    Who’s winning on the Internet, the Left or the Right?...

    John Hennessy: The Exit Interview

    Research | Articles | by Peter M. Robinson
    Friday, October 21, 2016

    The outgoing Stanford president reflects on the founding, and the future, of a truly great university. 

    Thomas Sowell on Intellectuals and Society: Chapter 1 of 5

    Research | Articles | by Peter M. Robinson
    Monday, January 4, 2010

    Thomas Sowell introduces his new book, Intellectuals and Society, and expounds on what he calls “the fatal misstep of intellectuals.” . . .

    Condoleezza Rice: Director Of The Hoover Institution

    Research | Videos
    Friday, September 11, 2020

    Uncommon Knowledge with Peter Robinson is proud to present the first interview with Condoleezza Rice in her new role as Director of the Hoover Institution. On September 1st, 2020 Director Rice became the Hoover Institution's eighth director in its 101 year history and the first woman to hold the position.

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