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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...
Hoover’s Uncommon Knowledge Featured Nov. 29 On New Fox Nation
The Hoover Institution’s Uncommon Knowledge with Peter Robinson will appear on the new Fox Nation streaming service on Nov. 29 with an exclusive interview of economist and Hoover senior fellow Thomas Sowell.
A Teacher of Character
James Q. Wilson was a modest man of outsize achievements—a professor and a lifelong student of human nature. By Harvey C. Mansfield.
The Day Cornell Died
As gun-wielding black students seized control of a campus building in April 1969, Cornell University descended into anarchy. An account thirty years later by Hoover fellow Thomas Sowell, who was teaching at Cornell at the time.
School for $6 a Month
When governments abroad fail to offer decent schools, entrepreneurs rush in. By Chester E. Finn Jr.
All Twitter, No Twain
Americans may be reading online, but that’s not literature. Without the great authors, where are the great thoughts? By Diane Ravitch.
Smaller Is Better
The evidence is coming in: Smaller schools produce results. By Hoover fellow Hanna Skandera and Hoover senior associate director Richard Sousa.
How Affirmative Action Falls Short
Only skills improvement—starting with better schools—can begin to close racial achievement gaps.
Fear as a Tax
How an overconcern with security can distort the face America shows the world. By Josef Joffe.
The Risks of a "Sputnik moment"
Do we really want the federal government to launch a national curriculum? By Williamson M. Evers.
Exploring Contemporary Chinese History: Hoover Holds Annual Summer Workshop On Modern China
The fifth annual Hoover Institution Workshop on Modern China, entitled “Crossing the 1949 Divide: The Hoover Archives and Contemporary Chinese History,” was held during July 31 and August 4, 2017. Co-organized and cosponsored with the Seminar of East Asian Studies, Free University of Berlin, this year the workshop featured seven speakers from the United States, Germany, Austria, and Taiwan who explored Hoover’s unique modern China collections and evaluated how these historical treasures help reshape our understanding of contemporary China and post-1949 Taiwan. Workshop attendees presented their research to over three hundred audience from the Hoover/Stanford community as well as to researchers and mass media in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Teaching The Federalist
What happens when South Korean students take a close look at American democracy. By Peter Berkowitz.
One Nation Under God
Restoring religious freedom to public schools
Honor in the Task
How can we shore up the American work ethic? By honoring good work. By Russell Muirhead.
How Not To Teach American History
The importance of civics in American education
Paying the Piper
Will vouchers undermine the mission of religious schools?
The Naughty Professor
Henrik Bering on Maurice Bowra: A Life by Leslie Mitchell
After Michigan
In June the Supreme Court issued a definitive—if narrow—ruling that permits the consideration of race in university admissions. This may have been bad law—but was it a bad decision? By Robert Zelnick.
Home Front
Chastity programs shatter sex-ed myths
The Gender Refs
Federal regulators lock arms with college athletic departments to gut men’s sports in the name of equality
Fraternities on the Rocks
College administrators' political siege on the Greeks