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James Ceaser is the Harry F. Byrd Professor of Politics at the University of Virginia, director of the Program for Constitutionalism and Democracy, and was a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. He is the author of several books on American politics and American political thought, including...
Paul Gregory On The John Batchelor Show
Paul Gregory discusses his book, Women of the Gulag: Portraits of Five Remarkable Lives
Harvey Mansfield On The Marshall Center Lecture Series
Harvey Mansfield discusses “Machiavelli’s Enterprise”
The House That Stalin Built
Anyone unfamiliar with the quality of Stephen Kotkin’s four earlier books on the Soviet Union might well question whether we need a new, voluminous tome about the first fifty years of Joseph Stalin’s life. Stalin, like Hitler, has been the subject of numerous biographies, ranging from Boris Souvarine’s pioneering work to Robert C. Tucker’s multivolume study. Is there anything important to add?
Stephen Kotkin Review: Capturing The Life Of Stalin The Despot Is A Massive Undertaking
In his memoirs of the Russian revolutions of 1917, their Boswell, the ubiquitous left-winger Nikolai Sukhanov, observed Joseph Stalin as "a grey blur, emitting a dim light every now and then and not leaving any trace.
‘Please Stop Helping Us’ And ‘Shame’
One of the few things conservatives and liberals agree on about the ’60s is that it was a decade of radical change in the nation’s politics, ethnoracial and gender relations, popular culture and international policies.
Radiolab Episode On Japanese Balloon Bombs
This is an excellent bit of radio about one of the weirder forms of attack during World War II—the only one I know of that produced casualties in the continental United States: balloon bombing.
Paul Samuelson's Take On The Great Depression
In jumping around through the blogosphere last night, I came across this quote from Paul Samuelson, in an interview he did in 2009 with Conor Clarke.
Presidential Libraries: Taking Stock As Obama Readies His Own
By voting yesterday to approve release of 20 acres of public parkland to the University of Chicago, the local City Council finally cleared the last obstacle to its pending hometown bid for the Barack Obama Library and Museum.
Shelby Steele’s Thankless Task
‘You,’ a character in Ossie Davis’s 1961 play “Purlie Victorious” says to another, “are a disgrace to the Negro profession.” The line recurs to me whenever I see Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson making perfunctory rabble-rousing remarks in Ferguson, Mo., Madison, Wis., current-day Selma, Ala., or any other protest scene where their appearance, like Toni Morrison on a list of honorary-degree recipients, has become de rigueur.
Stalin’s Man In Spain
‘Between a Communist and a traitor there can be no relations of any kind,’ Carrillo told his father, a Socialist party member, in 1939.
The Ghastly Shadow Of Munich
The Western capitulation to Adolf Hitler in the 1938 Munich Agreement is cited as classic appeasement that destroyed Czechoslovakia, backfired on France and Britain, and led to World War II.
Stephen Kotkin On Book Nook (1:18)
Hoover fellow Stephen Kotkin discusses his recent book on Stalin and the regime that Stalin built.
Philip Bobbitt On The John Batchelor Show
Philip Bobbitt, a member of Hoover's National Security & Law Task Force, discusses his latest book The Garments of Court and Palace: Machiavelli and the World That He Made.
Online Polish Collections From The Hoover Institution Archives
In the early 1990s, roughly 1.5 million documents on microfilm were transferred from the Hoover Institution to the Polish National Archives. These documents, the records of the Polish government-in-exile, had originally been entrusted to the Hoover Institution following World War II and the subjugation of Poland by the Soviet Union.
Adam Smith, Life Coach
The great economist pondered not just markets but the people who use them—and how honorable, happy citizens represent the true wealth of nations. Hoover fellow Russ Roberts explains.
Abraham Lincoln's War On Inequality
Abraham Lincoln would be embarrassed about the polarization of U.S. politics today, 150 years after his assassination. Make no mistake, Lincoln was a polarizing president.
Irreconcilable Differences—Perhaps
A two-state solution could give Israel and the Palestinians the “fair divorce” they want. But it would require two willing partners, not just one.
Policy Powerhouse
Both a scholar and a skillful practitioner of the art of practical politics, the late Hoover fellow Martin Anderson took transformative ideas and made them real.
Remembering the Lusitania
The sinking of the famed liner, torpedoed within sight of land, helped draw the United States into the war. It remains a source of fascination—and speculation.
Stalin’s Monstrous Will
The first book of Hoover fellow Stephen Kotkin’s new history of the Soviet Union presents a portrait of absolute power.