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- How to Cure Health Care
- Condoleezza Rice
- Here’s a Second Opinion
- Thomas Sowell
- Milton Friedman
- The Case for Free Trade
- Power and Weakness
- A Primer on America's Schools
- How to Measure the War
- Is Food the New Sex?
Former U.S. secretary of state Condoleezza Rice, who has returned to the Hoover Institution and Stanford University, speaks to the Hoover Institution overseers and guests.
Radosław Sikorski, minister of foreign affairs of Poland, speaks on Poland’s position in international politics to Hoover guests.
Herbert Hoover is featured in a PBS documentary about his presidency.
An Empire at Risk
Newsweek, December 7, 2009
by Niall Ferguson
Call the United States what you like—superpower, hegemon, or empire—but its ability to manage its finances is closely tied to its ability to remain the predominant global military power. . . .
10 Surprising Facts about American Health Care
National Center for Policy Analysis, March 24, 2009
by Scott W. Atlas
Medical care in the United States is derided as miserable compared to health care systems in the rest of the developed world...
Hanson: Iraq, Afghanistan demonstrate the unpredictability of war
San Jose Mercury News, December 17, 2009
by Victor Davis Hanson
We don’t hear all that much about Iraq these days, do we?
Exploding debt threatens America
Financial Times, May 26, 2009
by John B. Taylor
Standard and Poor’s decision to downgrade its outlook for British sovereign debt from “stable” to “negative” should be a wake-up call for the US Congress and administration...
1. Is Food the New Sex?
2. How China Won and Russia Lost
3. How to Cure Health Care
4. Putting Fowler Back in Fowler's
5. Condoleezza Rice
6. Thomas Sowell
7. The Terror Fringe
8. The Root of the Financial Crisis
9. Shelby Steele
10. Power and Weakness
What's in a Label?
December 29, 2009
In an earlier post I alluded to some issues in describing sound recordings.
Culture Shock
December 17, 2009
In organizing and describing materials in archives such as ours, with collections from all over the globe, the exotic can sometimes seem routine.
Delegation from the Party Literature Research Center of the Chinese Communist Party Central Committee visits Hoover
December 16, 2009
The delegation was led by Shengqun Yang, deputy director (vice minister) of the center, accompanied by Jianqi Yan, the center’s deputy secretary general, and four officials and researchers from the center.
How Does a Pie Thrown in the Face Sound?
December 15, 2009
Is it a thwack or more of a splat? You can decide for yourself if you come to the Hoover Archives and listen to the sound recording of Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling speaking at the Commonwealth Club on June 21, 2001.
December 16, 2009
Keynes vs. Hayek
Russell Roberts, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and EconTalk host, discusses the legacy of economist John Maynard Keynes, who first introduced the concept of government intervention in the economy, and his intellectual opponent Friedrich Hayek on PBS’s Newshour.
December 11, 2009
Behind the headlines
Timothy Garton Ash, a Hoover senior fellow and internationally acclaimed contemporary historian whose work has focused on Europe since 1945, released a new book, Facts Are Subversive: Political Writing from a Decade without a Name.
December 11, 2009
The lessons of history
Hoover senior fellow Niall Ferguson is interviewed on PBS’s Wealth Track concerning the economy. Ferguson discusses what the seismic global economic and market shifts of recent years mean for our future, particularly the longer-term implications of America’s exploding debt. . . .
December 9, 2009
Insights with Rene Girard
Rene Girard, author of works published in more than two dozen languages, including The Scapegoat and Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World, explains how he makes sense of, “On Earth peace, good will toward men.”