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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 Yale University and safe places.
Peter Berkowitz On The Lars Larson Northwest Podcast (50:29)
Hoover Institution fellow Peter Berkowitz discusses free speech on college campuses.
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."
Peter Berkowitz On The John Batchelor Show (9:48)
Hoover Institution fellow Peter Berkowitz discusses his Real Clear Politics article "An Assault On Due Process At UC Berkeley."
Peter Berkowitz On The John Batchelor Show
Hoover Institution fellow Peter Berkowitz discusses his Wall Street Journal article "How State Lawmakers Can Restore Freedom on Campus."
Peter Berkowitz: Free Speech On College Campuses Under Attack
Hoover Institution fellow Peter Berkowitz discusses free speech on college campuses and notes that it is vital for universities to uphold the first amendment and the free exchange of ideas on college campuses.
Peter Berkowitz On MPR News: The First Amendment On College Campuses
Hoover Institution fellow Peter Berkowitz discusses the state of free speech on college campuses as well as whether students and faculty understand what the First Amendment means.
Peter Berkowitz’s Five Books
His reading list focuses on how liberty is won, lost, and neglected. By Jonathan Rauch.
Substance versus style
Hoover Fellow Peter Berkowitz has a scathingly accurate analysis of higher education in today’s Wall Street Journal op-ed page. . . .
Berkowitz discusses liberal bias on college campuses on KQED’s Forum
Peter Berkowitz, the Tad and Dianne Taube Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, discusses whether or not students at the University of California are receiving a biased and compromised education from activist professors.
Berkowitz: How Marx Transformed The Mission Statements Of Ivy League Universities
In his “Theses on Feuerbach,” the young Karl Marx proclaimed, “[P]hilosophers have only hitherto interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it” (emphasis in original). The mission statements of several preeminent colleges and universities in the United States follow suit, an analyst noted.
Berkowitz discusses his op-ed “Professors Proselytizing Liberalism”
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.
The Battle For Religious Liberty Will Be Won On The Field Of Education
A striking correlation exists between the decay of liberal education and the belief that government should push American citizens toward progressivism.
'Sexual Paranoia Comes To Campus'
Liberal Education And Liberal Democracy
Colleges foster smugness on the left and resentment on the right.
Yale Gives In To The Grievance Culture
On Tuesday, November 17, Yale University president Peter Salovey sent an email addressed to “Members of the Yale Community,” including the university’s far flung alumni. In the wake of unrest on campus the last few weeks over Halloween costumes, “safe spaces,” diversity, and free speech, Salovey expressed his determination “to build a more inclusive Yale.”
Colleges' Big Fail: Protecting Feelings, But Not Speech
The annual ritual of freshman orientation, which begins in mid-summer and extends through mid-September, is in full swing. Colleges are welcoming students and showing them around, acquainting them with classmates and college facilities, and making them aware of the full range of campus activities, clubs, and programs.
Peggy Noonan's Words To Live By
In a June 4, 2010, Wall Street Journal column, republished in her new collection, “The Time of Our Lives,” Peggy Noonan tells the heartbreaking story of 28-year-old Detroit Tigers’ pitcher Armando Galarraga.
A Plan To Restore Free Speech On Campus
The slowly metastasizing assault on free speech that has played out on American college campuses since the 1960s has reached a crisis point. What’s needed is a concrete plan to restore liberty of thought and discussion to the American academy — a plan capable of focusing the support of sympathetic students, faculty, parents, alumni, administrators, trustees, and citizens, and their elected representatives.
Marxist Spirit Underpins Campus Protests
The latest rounds of student rage over alleged racial discrimination—and the subsequent administrative acquiescence to student demands—at American universities should come as no surprise. For decades U.S. institutions of higher education have cultivated an obsession with supposedly hidden-but-ubiquitous oppression.