George Shultz, the Thomas W. and Susan B. Ford Distinguished Fellow at the Hoover Institution, gave the opening remarks in a talk titled “Make Failure Tolerable.” (Photo courtesy of Stanford Visual Arts)

Historic piece of the Berlin Wall is located at Hoover

Hoover launches Defining Ideas.

Final report by the commission on California’s twenty-first-century economy. Hoover Fellows Michael Boskin (left) and John Cogan are commission members.

Conference on nuclear nonproliferation at Hoover Institution (Photo courtesy of Steve Gladfelter/Stanford Visual Arts Service)

Kevin M. Warsh, a member of the Federal Reserve System’s Board of Governors (Photo courtesy of Stanford Visual Arts)

The Road Ahead for the Fed

Liberating Learning: Technology, Politics, and the Future of American Education, by Hoover fellows Terry M. Moe and John Chubb

Stephen Haber, the Peter and Helen Bing Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and the A. A. and Jeanne Welch Milligan Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences at Stanford, where he is a professor of political science and professor of history

Hoover Institution fellows Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Kiron Skinner were appointed to the Committee on Behavioral and Social-Science Research to Improve Intelligence Analysis for National Security.

John B. Taylor (left), the Bowen H. and Janice Arthur McCoy Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, and James Hamilton of the University of California at San Diego evaluated the economic and policy implications of the expanded balance sheet. (Photo by Tin Tin Wisniewski/Hoover Institution Public Affairs)

The Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Awards for 2009 grant special recognition to Taxation in Colonial America.

Condoleezza Rice

Former U.S. secretary of state Condoleezza Rice, who has returned to the Hoover Institution and Stanford University, spoke to Hoover Institution overseers and guests during dinner on Monday night at the Board of Overseers meeting. Photo by Goodman/VanRiper Photography