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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...
Policy Seminar with Michael Auslin
Michael Auslin, the Williams-Griffis Fellow in Contemporary Asia at Hoover, came to the policy workshop to discuss his book project "Before Empire: American Expansion and Great Power Competition in the Pacific Ocean In the 19th Century."
The History Of Nuclear Warfare And The Future Of Nuclear Energy
The first atomic strike in 1945 changed the world forever.
Finding a Founder
Sam Munson on Gouverneur Morris: An Independent Life by William Howard Adams
Drift
When does a powerful nation lose its spirit? And after a country’s sense of self goes adrift, can it be recovered? In the twentieth century, the gold standard of drift followed by recovery was Great Britain. More than 700,000 British soldiers were killed during WWI, roughly ten percent of all who served. Following the Treaty of Versailles, the British thought they had put war behind them. Certainly, when Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich Agreement in 1938, it seemed to signify that Great Britain has lost its grit.
Gentlemen Revolutionaries
Peter Berkowitz on Revolutionary Characters: What Made The Founders Different by Gordon Wood
THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE'S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE: Should We Abolish the Electoral College?
As required by the Constitution, the president of the United States is elected not by the national popular vote but by the vote of the Electoral College. In the Electoral College, each state receives as many votes as it has members of Congress. Because every state has two senators and is guaranteed at least one House member, votes of small states count more heavily than votes of large states. Has the Electoral College served the nation well? Or should it be abolished and replaced by a system in which every vote counts the same? Peter Robinson speaks with Jack Rakove and Tara Ross
Taking Swipes At Publius
Our politics has changed irreversibly since the founding, yet the Constitution has survived. Might that be because it rests on eternal truths?
As July 4th Approaches, Does California Freedom Have A Hollow Ring?
As circumstance would have it, for the second consecutive year this column precedes America’s Fourth of July weekend. As such, it seems like the proper moment to discuss California and liberty.
Idealism Derailed
A portrait of the late Robert S. McNamara. By Philip Bobbitt.
The Risks of a "Sputnik moment"
Do we really want the federal government to launch a national curriculum? By Williamson M. Evers.
World War III In Novels
Like hurricanes and volcanoes, most wars are not predictable even months before the event. In this regard, national intelligence estimates are no more soothsaying than novels. But unlike estimates by bureaucrats, novels are stories about human nature that entertain and often enlighten or remind us about the complexity called human nature. Consider these five novels about World War III.
Conservative Internationalism
Jefferson to Polk to Truman to Reagan
We the People
The Case of the Missing White House
N. C. Wyeth was one of the most famous illustrators of his day. So why can’t anyone—including the White House itself—locate the Wyeth painting on the cover of this issue of the Hoover Digest? By Christine B. Podmaniczky.
Unexceptional America
Teaching The Federalist
What happens when South Korean students take a close look at American democracy. By Peter Berkowitz.
Defusing the Bomb Culture
The growing effort to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons. By George P. Shultz, William J. Perry, Henry A. Kissinger, and Sam Nunn.
The Cuban Missile Crisis as Intelligence Failure
The Vietnam War Documentary: Doom And Despair
Ken Burns recently released a documentary entitled “The Vietnam War: An Intimate History.” The script concluded with these words, “The Vietnam War was a tragedy, immeasurable and irredeemable.” That damning hyperbole neatly summarized 18 hours of haunting, funereal music, doleful tales by lugubrious veterans, and an elegiac historical narration voiced over a collage of violent images and thunderous explosions.