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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...
What Obama Isn't Saying
The apolitical politics of progressivism. . . .
Hoover May Retreat Features Presentations on Current Issues
Campaign strategies for the upcoming presidential election, the state of the economy, and the Middle East were the topics at the Hoover Institution’s May 28–29 retreat.
Intelligence and Security with James Woolsey
James Woolsey discusses the failure of the intelligence community in the run-up to the Iraq war and considers Barak Obama’s selection of Leon Panetta to head the CIA in light of the historical relationship between the president and the CIA director. He outlines the challenges the intelligent community faces in what he calls America’s war against “theocratic totalitarianism.” Finally, he asserts that it is imperative for us to destroy oil as a strategic commodity – not only for our security but also for the good of the planet. (36:56 ) Video transcript
October 2012 Retreat at the Hoover Institution
The Hoover Institution hosted its fiftieth retreat, beginning on Sunday, October 21, 2012, and ending on Tuesday, October 23, 2012. On Sunday, the Honorable Bob McDonnell, governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia since January 2010 who also currently chairs the Republican Governors’ Association, the Southern Growth Policies Board, and the Southern Regional Education Board, gave the before-dinner remarks. His topics included job creation, economic development, our current debt crisis, and deficit spending. He also touched on two competing visions in the world; the first, which he calls an “entitlement society” with more guarantees, more taxes, more spending, and more regulation as a way to promote success; the second, an “opportunity society” which individuals can work hard, dream big, and use all their talents to be successful with limited government interference.
Postpartisan Preening
“Beyond politics,” the latest mantra in Washington, is at best astoundingly naive. By Harvey C. Mansfield.
The Businessman and the Intellectual
Despite endless debate about the issues, the presidential contest comes down to character. By James W. Ceaser.
Area 45: California: Back In Blackouts Again?
James Sweeney explains the differences between crises present and past, and suggests ways California can better balance population and environmental concerns.
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.
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.
Pacific Century: Suing China?
Can the US Hold China Responsible for the Pandemic?
Area 45: US Military
The peaks and valleys of a US military buildup.
The California Electricity Crisis
California's electric power: from opportunity through crisis to blight.
GoodFellows: One Nation Under A Groove
In the final episode of the series for 2020, Hoover senior fellows Niall Ferguson, H. R. McMaster, and John Cochrane reflect on lessons learned from the pandemic, Donald Trump’s future, the ruinous state of the Golden State, how society will differ in 2021, plus what gets them through their daily routines—a mixtape of UK punk, Philly-brand funk, and the soothing sounds of “Sweet Baby James” Taylor.
Porkbusters
The congressional addiction to pork—and how the president can force the Hill to kick the habit. A primer by James C. Miller III.
Perspectives on 2015
In 2015 Americans faced a broad array of issues at home and abroad. Perennials such as the listless economic recovery, healthcare reform, turmoil in the Middle East, ISIS, and the presidential race remained in the forefront, to be joined by the crisis in Syria, refugees, and immigration. Throughout it all, in publications across the country, Hoover fellows offered their unique brand of thoughtful and scholarly insight and ideas.
The Perfect Pitch: Baseball And Hoover Sound Recordings
Just in time for the opening of the baseball season, sound recordings of speeches by legendary baseball managers, executives, and journalists from Hoover’s Commonwealth Club of California collection are now digitized and available to researchers. The collection features such heavy hitters as Bob Lurie, Tony La Russa, Dusty Baker, and Billy Beane.
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.
Hoover Institution Hosts Conference on Promoting Global Entrepreneurship
U.S. secretaries of state George P. Shultz and Condoleezza Rice and Stanford University president John Hennessy were among the featured speakers at a conference at the Hoover Institution on the “How and Why of Promoting Entrepreneurship Abroad.”
Summer 2013 Board of Overseers’ Meeting at Hoover
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.”