The news of the tragic death of President Lech Kaczynski, along with nearly a hundred of Poland’s political, military, religious, and government leaders, has shocked the world. The Hoover Institution community mourns the untimely death of President and Mrs. Kaczynski and the Polish delegation who were traveling to Katyn, Russia.
Nuclear Tipping Point, a movie of a conversation with four men intimately involved in American and international diplomacy during the last four decades, will be screened on the campus of Stanford University on Tuesday, April 20, at 4:00 p.m. in the Paul Brest Hall, Munger Residence, Building 4.
The Hoover Institution today announced publication of four essays on Islamism and international order: Saudi Arabia and the New Strategic Landscape, by Joshua Teitelbaum; Syria through Jihadist Eyes: The Perfect Enemy, by Nibras Kazimi; The Ideological Struggle for Pakistan, by Ziad Haider; and Islamism and the Future of the Christians in the Middle East, by Habib C. Malik. This diverse group of foreign policy experts highlights different and complex facets of Islamism and the Middle East.
At Last, The Truth About Tea Partiers
Daily Beast, April 15, 2010
by Tunku Varadarajan
A new poll has forced The New York Times and liberal elites to admit Tea Partiers aren’t nuts—but rather passionate, educated, serious, and relatively prosperous.
How to End America's Addiction to Oil
Wall Street Journal, April 15, 2010
by James Woolsey
By using more electricity, natural gas and biofuels in our transportation fleet, we can quickly reduce our dependence on OPEC.
Why do so many Americans pay no income taxes?
KeithHennessey.com, April 15, 2010
by Keith Hennessey
Today many are discussing how many Americans do not owe income taxes. The traditional debate splits along partisan lines.
So What Happened to Iraq?
National Review, April 15, 2010
by Victor Davis Hanson
Looking back, almost all of what once passed for conventional wisdom has been proven wrong.
1. At Last, The Truth About Tea Partiers
2. Uncommon Knowledge classic: “The Sixties” with Hitchens and William F. Buckley: Chapter 5 of 5
3. Condoleezza Rice
4. Why do so many Americans pay no income taxes?
5. Authoritarianism vs. the Internet
6. Victor Davis Hanson -- War and History, Ancient and Modern
7. Power and Weakness
8. Thomas Sowell
9. Hitchens—The Morals of an Atheist
10. World War IV As Fourth-Generation Warfare
Hoover Archives in Phoenix TV Documentary on the Chiang Kai-shek Diaries
April 13, 2010
A Chinese-language television documentary about the Chiang Kai-shek diaries at the Hoover Archives can be viewed on YouTube. Released in February, the extensive footage from Hoover that appears in Part One was taped in August 2008...
The Good Librarian
April 6, 2010
Because of the collecting scope of the library and archives, the original impetus for which came from Herbert Hoover’s determination to document World War I in hopes that future conflicts could be prevented, many of its materials relate to episodes of collective violence.
Lithuanian KGB Files on Microfilm at Hoover
March 29, 2010
More than one thousand reels of microfilmed records of the KGB in Lithuania are available at the Hoover Archives, and the collection continues to grow.
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) Belarus Service Audiotapes Digitized
March 24, 2010
The entire collection of audiotapes at Hoover created by RFE/RL’s Belarus Service has been digitized for preservation and access. Use copies of the recordings are available for listening at the Hoover Archives.
April 16, 2010
Five hard truths about charter schools
Paul T. Hill is a distinguished visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution and a member of the Koret Task Force on K–12 Education. His book Learning as We Go: Why School Choice Is Worth the Wait, is profiled in this article. . . .
April 14, 2010
Uncommon Knowledge classic: “The Sixties” with Hitchens and William F. Buckley: Chapter 5 of 5
In this rereleased interview from 1998, Hoover media fellow Christopher Hitchens and William F. Buckley Jr. discuss how the Vietnam War might be viewed a century from now.
April 13, 2010
Hoover’s Abbas Milani: Democracy is solution to Iranian nuclear impasse
Abbas Milani is a research fellow and codirector of the Iran Democracy Project at the Hoover Institution and the Hamid and Christina Moghadam Director of Iranian Studies at Stanford University. His expertise is U.S./Iran relations and Iranian cultural, political, and security issues. . . .
April 13, 2010
Fouad Ajami, Marek Jan Chodakeiwicz, and Andy McCarthy are interviewed on Secure Freedom Radio by Frank Gaffney
Fouad Ajami, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the cochair of the Working Group on Islamism and the International Order, discusses the Obama doctrine and the current situation in the Middle East.