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Education Futures Council Unveils Report ‘Ours To Solve - Once, And For All’ Highlighting Path To Revitalize Public Education In America
The Education Futures Council (EFC) has released its report, “Ours to Solve, Once - and For All,” to address the public education crisis in America. The report outlines a new framework for revitalizing public K–12 education across the nation.
The Perils Of Isolationism
In times of uncertainty, people reach for historical analogies. After 9/11, George W. Bush administration officials invoked Pearl Harbor as a standard comparison in processing the intelligence failure that led to the attack. Secretary of State Colin Powell referred to Imperial Japan’s attack in making the case that Washington should deliver an ultimatum to the Taliban, saying, “Decent countries don’t launch surprise attacks.”
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The Hoover Institution Establishes New Initiative And Names Senior Fellow To Study Immigration
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2025 Hoover Fellowship Programs
Applications are now open for the 2025 Hoover Fellowship Programs with opportunities for early-career scholars. For more information on the Hoover Fellows program and National Fellows program, click the links below.
Issues Affecting American Democracy | Elections 2024
To help inform citizens as they gear up for the 2024 elections, the Hoover Institution is offering "Issues Affecting American Democracy," a non-partisan compendium of fellows' insights into key policy issues. A few recent highlights are featured below. Click the button below to explore more content.
Which Way, America? Condoleezza Rice On America’s Foreign Policy Challenges
Condoleezza Rice joins Uncommon Knowledge with Peter Robinson at a perilous moment for the United States and the world at large, even more dangerous than the Cold War, Rice argues.
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Good Teachers Hold The Key To Learning Loss Recovery
By identifying, enabling, and incentivizing our best classroom teachers, we can revive flatlining student achievement.
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Axis Of Aggressors: H.R. McMaster On Defending America’s Interests
An increasingly formidable emerging axis of China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea are united in their determination to undermine the United States and counter its core interests.
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The Status Of Possible Legislative Changes To Direct Primary Care (DPC) Arrangements
DPCs are the rare bipartisan health care reform that everyone loves, once they hear about them.
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The State of American Citizenship 2023
We are troubled but unsurprised by fresh evidence of American civic decline, evidence that comes from an August 2023 survey conducted by YouGov on behalf of the Working Group on Good American Citizenship (GoodAmCiv), based at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. At the same time, we’re heartened by several rays of hope that penetrate the gloom.
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Benjamin Ginsberg On 60 Minutes
Hoover Institution fellow Ben Ginsberg discusses the integrity of the elections.
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Which Way, America? Condoleezza Rice On America’s Foreign Policy Challenges
Condoleezza Rice joins Uncommon Knowledge with Peter Robinson at a perilous moment for the United States and the world at large, even more dangerous than the Cold War, Rice argues.
Core Institutional Priorities
Featured Fellows
Eric Bettinger
Senior Fellow
Thomas Sowell
Rose and Milton Friedman Senior Fellow on Public Policy
Michael McConnell
Senior Fellow
Josiah Ober
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Stephen Haber
Peter and Helen Bing Senior Fellow
Featured Work:
The Classroom Is A Laboratory
Do education innovations add up to real and lasting progress?
May 23, 2024
interview Eric Bettinger
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'We All Want To Solve Poverty But The Trouble Is That A Minimum Wage Doesn’t Achieve That Goal'
Economist Dr Thomas Sowell cites a tragic example in which well-meaning advocates for social justice shut down a so-called “sweat shop” in a struggling south-east-Asian region. The net result was that the young employees, who had previously been happy to work for a minimum wage, were then forced to turn to crime and prostitution instead.
August 13, 2024
cited Thomas Sowell
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Constitution Day 2024: A Lesson In History From An Originalist Liberal
Michael McConnell, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, provided welcome remarks on Constitution Day, highlighting its focus on educating the American people about the central legal document that has governed the country for more than 235 years.
October 14, 2024
quote Michael McConnell
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The Civic Bargain: How Democracy Survives
The United States faces no shortage of challenges from political polarization, institutional distrust, to economic uncertainty. But through devoted efforts towards civic engagement, civic education, and civic bargaining, American citizens can ensure American democracy survives and thrives.
July 2, 2024
Josiah Ober
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The Political Economy of the Middle Income Trap
Governments in many middle income countries promote the interests of a small set of firms while erecting barriers to entry and threatening the property rights of other economic actors. We show how such economic favoritism yields second-best outcomes that are nevertheless welfare-superior to scenarios with no property rights, but fall short of the first-best outcome of free entry and open competition. We develop a model to explain how such policies are politically feasible and can be optimal from the perspective of rulers when first-best policies are not.
August 30, 2024
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FEATURED PUBLICATIONS
Strategika
An online journal that analyzes ongoing issues of national security in light of conflicts of the past.
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The Caravan
The Caravan is a quarterly publication on the contemporary dilemmas of the Greater Middle East
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Western Democracies Face Not Only Hamas The Physical Organization But Also Hamas The Idea, Part Of A Broader Islamist Infrastructure
California on Your Mind
Analysis, politics, and the economics of the Golden State
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Butterfly Wings & Hurricanes: The GoodFellows & Andrew Roberts Revisit Historical Counterfactuals
Imagine an alternate universe in which the American Revolution fails or where Russia rejects Leninism in its infant stage.
The Early 2020s: Former World Bank President David Malpass On COVID, Inflation, China, And Climate
Jon Hartley and David Malpass discuss David’s career in business and government, his leadership of the World Bank Group during the COVID-19 crisis, China’s role in international finance, and the impact of 2020s inflation on developing countries, economic growth, and climate policy.
John Bew Applies History To Foreign Policy-Making
Professor John Bew’s knowledge as the biographer of Lord Castlereagh and Clement Attlee and the historian of Realpolitik was put to good use when he became the senior foreign policy advisor to no fewer than four British prime ministers.
The Three Historians: Niall Ferguson, Victor Davis Hanson, And Andrew Roberts
The most prestigious and popular historians in the world have appeared together in a public forum for the first time to discuss: the recent controversy regarding Winston Churchill’s role in World War II, the false premise of the 1619 Project, the Cold War, World War II, and more.
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Founded by Herbert Hoover in 1919, the Hoover Institution Library & Archives is home to some of the world's most renowned collections documenting war, revolution, peace, and political, economic, and social change in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Free and open to all, discover how to search the collections, arrange a research visit, or explore exhibitions by clicking below.
Exhibitions | Now On View
The exhibitions Un-Presidented: Watergate and Power in America (February 12–August 11, 2024) and Hoover@100: Ideas Defining A Century (ongoing) are open and free to all visitors to Hoover Tower, at the heart of Stanford University campus.
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Planning an onsite visit to the reading room? Conducting your research from afar? Staff are ready to connect you with the most relevant materials through reference consultations, assisting with registration and material requests, digitization, and more.
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Acquiring, preserving, and making accessible collections of enduring value, including more than one million library volumes and over six thousand archival collections.
Digital First Initiative
Our aim is to make full archival collections accessible to researchers around the world through the digitization of textual, graphical, sound, and moving-image materials.
Engagement & Outreach
Building connections to our collections by sparking curiosity in audiences interested in the meaning and role of history through exhibitions, classes, tours, and special programing.
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