Key energy issues that could be favorably influenced by effective public policies at the state, local, and federal level were discussed at a conference hosted by the Hoover Institution’s Shultz-Stephenson Task Force on Energy on January 19 and 20.
After last summer’s antigovernment protests following the disputed presidential election in Iran, authorities set up show trials of more than 100 alleged opposition leaders. Following which, one of Hoover and Stanford’s own entered the spotlight. . . .
The 2009–2010 Drell Lecture will be a conversation between Sidney Drell, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and a professor of theoretical physics emeritus at Stanford’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. . . .
Health Care Is Hurting Democrats
Wall Street Journal, January 19, 2010
by David Brady, Daniel P. Kessler, Douglas Rivers
New polling data show that voters know exactly where candidates stand. . . .
The New Progressivism: Same as the Old Progressivism?
Pajamas Media, January 21, 2010
by Peter Berkowitz
To understand the sometimes glaring gaps between candidate Obama’s promises and President Obama’s policies, it is useful to appreciate an old tension in American progressivism. . . .
How to Protect Our Nuclear Deterrent
Wall Street Journal, January 19, 2010
by William J. Perry, George P. Shultz
Maintaining confidence in our nuclear arsenal is necessary as the number of weapons goes down. . . .
On Acetaminophen
Regulation, January 20, 2010
by Henry I. Miller
I must disagree with Jeremy Lott’s criticism (“Worse than the Cure,” Fall 2009) of a set of regulatory proposals formulated last summer by a Food and Drug Administration advisory panel...
1. Thomas Sowell discusses his new book Intellectuals and Society
2. Is Food the New Sex?
3. Controversial Essays
4. Condoleezza Rice
5. How China Won and Russia Lost
6. Crisis and Command with John Yoo: Chapter 5 of 5
7. Thomas Sowell
8. The Changing American Family
9. Condoleezza Rice returns to Hoover Institution, Stanford
10. Power and Weakness
Preparing an Archival Collection for Freezing
January 12, 2010
The Hoover Archives recently acquired a large manuscript collection that had been stored in a barn on the East Coast, where it was exposed to extreme temperatures. . . .
“Off the Record” and the Archival Record
January 5, 2010
It’s no secret that Herbert Hoover talked to Commonwealth Club audiences at nine “off- the-record” events between 1936 and 1947.
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.
January 20, 2010
New Hoover Study Suggests the Importance of Health Reform in Upcoming Midterm Elections
How could a little-known Republican possibly have won a competitive U.S. Senate race in Massachusetts, the bluest of blue states?
January 20, 2010
AIG bailout under scrutiny
John Taylor, the Bowen H. and Janice Arthur McCoy Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, provides insight on why full transparency concerning the AIG bailout is important for understanding what happened and for preventing future problems on CNBC.
January 18, 2010
Munger on many things
In this podcast, Russell Roberts, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and EconTalk host, talks with Mike Munger from Duke University about the ten most interesting questions listeners e-mailed to the show.
January 14, 2010
Hoover Institution Library and Archives Announces Opening of the papers of H. H. Kung
The papers of H. H. Kung, a confidant of Chiang Kai-shek, his brother-in-law, and the patriarch of one of the “four big families” of Nationalist China, opened at the Hoover Institution Library and Archives on January 19, 2010.