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January 10, 2011 | San Francisco Chronicle

The Shah, by Abbas Milani: biography review

Abbas M. Milani
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 US/Iran relations and Iranian cultural, political, and security issues. Nearly every chapter in Milani’s latest book, The Shah, a biography of Iran's last king, begins with a phrase from Shakespeare's King Richard II, a tragic figure who believes he is ordained by God to lead his people.
January 10, 2011 | EconTalk

Caldwell on Hayek

Russell D. Roberts
In this podcast Russell Roberts, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and EconTalk host, discusses, with Bruce Caldwell of Duke University, the general editor of the Collected Works of F. A. Hayek, Hayek, his life, his ideas, his books, and his articles.
January 7, 2011

Debate featuring Hoover senior fellow Richard Epstein

Hoover senior fellow Richard Epstein

Richard Epstein, the Peter and Kirsten Bedford Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, member of Hoover's Property Rights, Freedom, and Prosperity Task Force, the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Law at New York University, and the James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor of Law at the University of Chicago, will debate Pamela Karlan, a Stanford Law School professor, on Tuesday, January 11, 2011.

January 7, 2011

New Finding Aids Posted Online

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Finding aids to the collections described below are now available through the Online Archive of California.
January 5, 2011 | Bloomberg Television

Boskin says US tax overhaul has bipartisan interest

Michael Boskin

Michael Boskin, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the T. M. Friedman Professor of Economics at Stanford University, discusses the outlook for changes to US taxes on multinational corporations and a potential overhaul of the broader US tax code with Margaret Brennan on Bloomberg Television's InBusiness.

January 3, 2011 | NPR

Steele discusses the first wave of baby boomers turning 65 on NPR

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Shelby Steele, the Robert J. and Marion E. Oster Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, discusses the first wave of baby boomers—those Americans born after the soldiers returned home from World War II—many of whom will turn 65 this month. Seventy-nine million baby boomers, a quarter of the US population, according to the Pew Research Center, will turn 65 during the next eighteen years.

January 3, 2011

Photos from the Diaries of Ludwik Kowalski, Former Stalinist

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January 3, 2011 | Recorded on December 14, 2010

Thomas Sowell – Basic Economics

Thomas Sowell discusses Intellectuals and Society on Uncommon Knowledge.

Thomas Sowell has studied and taught economics, intellectual history, and social policy at institutions that include Cornell University, UCLA, and Amherst College. Now a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Sowell has published more than a dozen books, the latest of which is a revised and updated edition of his classic volume, Basic Economics.

January 3, 2011 | EconTalk

Hanson on the technological singularity

Russell D. Roberts

In this podcast Russell Roberts, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and EconTalk host, discusses, with Robin Hanson of George Mason University, the idea of technological singularity--a sudden, large increase in the rate of growth due to technological change.

January 3, 2011

The Diaries of Ludwik Kowalski, Former Stalinist, Donated to the Hoover Institution Archives

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The Ludwik Kowalski Papers available in the Hoover Institution Archives include the original notebook diaries (in Polish), hundreds of letters, and personal documents and photographs.