The latest issue of Defining Ideas is available onlineThe new issue features
The U.S. Economy Is Becoming Reliant on Government Fixes
Doubling Down on a Flawed Insurance Model
Property Rights and African Poverty
Hoover Fellows’ Commentary on Health Care
Hoover Fellows’ Commentary on the Economic Crisis
Hoover Fellow Robert Service Awarded Duff Cooper PrizeHoover fellow Robert Service was awarded the 2009 Duff Cooper Prize for his biography Trotsky. In his research for Trotsky, Service drew on collections from the Hoover Archives, noting that “the gem in the Hoover Archives is the first draft of Trotsky’s autobiography, which has much information he excluded from the printed version.”
Hoover Research Fellow Amy Zegart Named to the FBI Intelligence Analysts Association Advisory BoardThe Hoover Institution today congratulated Hoover research fellow, Professor Amy Zegart for having been named to the FBI Intelligence Analysts Association (IAA) external advisory board.
KSM's dispensable trial
Washington Post, March 19, 2010
by Jack Goldsmith, Benjamin Wittes
The Obama administration and its critics are locked in a standoff over whether to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and the other alleged Sept. 11 conspirators in a military commission or in federal court. . ...
Google In Italy: Lessons from Tobago
Financial Times, March 17, 2010
by Richard A. Epstein
As a student of the Yale Law School more than 40 years ago, I audited a course in conflicts of laws taught by the Israeli academic Avigdor Levontin. . . .
Was the “Considerable Period” or the “Measured Pace” More At Fault?
Economics One (blog), March 15, 2010
by John B. Taylor
In his recent review in The New York Review of Books of my book Getting Off Track, Roger Alcaly makes a very interesting point about the “too low for too long” hypothesis, according to which the Fed helped cause the housing boom...
Letter: Feeding the Propaganda of Anti-Technology Activists
Wall Street Journal, March 17, 2010
by Henry I. Miller
Peter Berkowitz is right to condemn abuses in the peer-review process ("Climategate Was an Academic Disaster Waiting to Happen," op-ed, March 13 ), many of which reflect the biases of both articles' referees and journal editors...
1. Is Food the New Sex?
2. The House Health-Care Vote and the Constitution
3. Hitchens—The Morals of an Atheist
4. Condoleezza Rice
5. War and history with Hoover senior fellow Victor Davis Hanson: Chapter 3 of 5
6. Sun and Socialism
7. How to Cure Health Care
8. A Primer on America's Schools
9. How China Won and Russia Lost
10. End of Dreams, Return of History
Slide Show of Poster Conservation at the Hoover Institution
March 17, 2010
The Hoover Institution houses a collection of more than 30,000 cataloged and an estimated 70,000 uncataloged posters. Those posters in the cataloged increment are encapsulated and stored in flat file drawers. . . .
Talk on the history of Hoover Library
March 5, 2010
Nicholas Siekierski, an assistant archivist and exhibit and outreach coordinator at the Hoover archives, will outline the history of the Hoover library and highlight some famous “treasures” from its archives at 11 a.m. Saturday, March 6, in the Fireside Room at Burgess Recreation Center, 700 Alma St...
One-of-a-Kind Commonwealth Club DATs Digitized
March 3, 2010
All digital audiotapes (DATs) of unique Commonwealth Club programs—that is, programs not also recorded on some other audio format—at the Hoover Institution Archives have been reformatted for preservation.
Hugh Gibson’s Diaries Documenting Herbert Hoover’s Post-World War II Food Mission Available Online
February 11, 2010
Gibson wrote this daily journal when he accompanied Herbert Hoover around the world on the so-called food mission to assess needs and coordinate efforts in alleviating the famine caused by severe droughts and the devastation wrought by World War II.
March 16, 2010
Hoover Media Fellow Shankar Vedantam Discusses The Hidden Brain
Hoover media fellow Shankar Vedantam spoke about his new book The Hidden Brain: How Our Unconscious Minds Elect Presidents, Control Markets, Wage Wars, and Save Our Lives at a seminar on Monday, March 15.
March 15, 2010
Don Boudreaux on public choice
In this podcast Russell Roberts, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and EconTalk host, discusses with Don Boudreaux of George Mason University public choice and the application of economics to the political process.
March 10, 2010
Hoover senior fellow Scott Atlas hosted health care forum
On Wednesday, March 10, Scott Atlas hosted a forum with Stanford University students to discuss health care policy and the current health care debate in Congress. Click here to watch the video. (45:24)