In 2021, the Hoover Institution continued to follow the COVID-19 protocols while hosting virtual events and safely returning to our in-person events in the fall. In the programs listed, Hoover fellows discussed a range of topics and issues, including educational challenges, foreign policy, cybersecurity, economics, and US policies.
Re-Booting K–12 Education in the Post-Pandemic Era | A Speaker Series
In 2021, the Hoover Education Success Initiative (HESI) launched a six-part webinar series to explore how public education can improve amidst the disruption of in-person instruction caused by COVID-19-inspired restrictions.
WILL INCREASING TEACHER PAY HARM STUDENTS?
Wednesday, September 15, 2021This session featured Eric Hanushek, the Hoover Institution’s Paul and Jean Hanna Senior Fellow; Holly Boffy, District 7 representative of the Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education; and Kent McGuire, program director of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. Christopher Ruszkowski, distinguished policy fellow at the Hoover Institution, was the moderator of the discussion.
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Battlegrounds: International Perspectives on Crucial Challenges to Security and Prosperity, with H. R. McMaster
The Hoover-based interviews, based on Fouad and Michelle Ajami Senior Fellow H. R. McMaster’s book Battlegrounds: The Fight to Defend the Free World, promotes “strategic empathy,” a concept coined by the historian Zachary Shore that considers outside perspectives in the formulation of national security strategy. The series provides a needed forum for leaders from key countries to share their assessments of problem sets and opportunities that have implications for US foreign policy and national security strategy.
THE LONG WAR AND US POLICY IN SOUTH ASIA AND THE MIDDLE EAST
Thursday, August 26, 2021In this episode H. R. McMaster and General John Abizaid discuss the evolution of the “long war” against jihadist terrorist organizations, what is at stake across the greater Middle East, and what we might learn from our experiences since 9/11.
RWANDA AND THE AFRICAN UNION: THE PROMISE OF INCREASED US-AFRICA ENGAGEMENT
Wednesday, February 3, 2021H. R. McMaster and Rwandan president Paul Kagame discuss the African Union, security in the Great Lakes region, and the future of US diplomatic and economic relations with Rwanda and with Africa, the world’s youngest continent, in which 50 percent of the population is under 25 years old.
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Hoover’s Capital Conversations
Hoover’s Capital Conversations brings together Hoover Institution fellows and leading policy makers for informed discussions between those who generate ideas enabling a free society and those who turn them into actionable policy. The series examines the major policy challenges facing the United States and the world today, as well as those that may confront future generations.
THE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE REVOLUTION
Wednesday, June 30, 2021Featuring Hoover senior fellow Amy Zegart, executive director of the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence Yll Bajraktari, and founder and CEO of Rhombus Power Anshu Roy.
STATE OF EDUCATION: ONE YEAR INTO COVID
Thursday, April 15, 2021Featuring Hoover senior fellow Caroline Hoxby, Florida education commissioner Richard Corcoran, and Alaska education commissioner Michael Johnson.
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Hoover Book Club
In October 2021, the Hoover Institution started the Hoover Book Club to engage members in discussions with leading authors on the hottest policy issues of the day. Hoover scholars explore the latest books that delve into some of the most vexing policy issues facing the United States and the world.
VICTOR DAVIS HANSON ON THE DYING CITIZEN: HOW PROGRESSIVE ELITES, TRIBALISM, AND GLOBALIZATION ARE DESTROYING THE IDEA OF AMERICA
Thursday, October 7, 2021Hoover senior fellow Victor Davis Hanson leads a discussion of his latest book, The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America.
Project on China’s Global Sharp Power
The Hoover Institution’s Project on China’s Global Sharp Power is a research initiative chaired by Senior Fellow Larry Diamond and managed by Research Fellow Glenn Tiffert that tracks the People’s Republic of China’s efforts to subvert free and open societies and to control global narratives in favor of the ideals and ambitions of the Chinese Communist Party.
REFLECTIONS ON US-CHINA RELATIONS
Wednesday, March 10, 2021A discussion about the great-power competition between the United States and China examines the rising risks for Western businesses in China, and the strategic pitfalls the West must avoid.
Using Text as Data in Policy Analysis | A Workshop Series
The Hoover Institution’s new seminar series, co-organized by Steven J. Davis and Justin Grimmer, features applications of natural language processing, structured human readings, and machine learning methods to text as data to examine policy issues in economics, history, national security, political science, and other fields.
ADJUSTING FOR CONFOUNDING WITH TEXT MATCHING
Tuesday, April 27, 2021This first session features a conversation with Molly Roberts speaking on “Adjusting for Confounding with Text Matching.”
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Other Events
This category features virtual conversations about relevant policy issues.
REFLECTING ON SEPTEMBER 11TH: 20 YEARS LATER
Friday, September 10, 2021A cohort of Hoover fellows, all of whom served in prominent leadership and military positions in the administration of George W. Bush, reflect on their personal experiences during the terror attacks of September 11, 2001.
RECALL: HOW DID CALIFORNIA GET TO THIS POINT?
Tuesday, September 7, 2021For the second time in less than two decades, California held a recall election to decide the fate of its governor. Hoover senior fellows Michael Boskin and Lee Ohanian, along with policy fellow Bill Whalen, discuss the economic, social, and political factors weighing on the Golden State’s electorate.
FROM PAST TO PRESENT: AN ONLINE DISCUSSION REFLECTING ON THE IMPACT OF HOOVER TOWER UPON ITS EIGHTIETH ANNIVERSARY
Monday, June 21, 2021On June 20, 1941, in conjunction with the fiftieth anniversary of Stanford University, Hoover Tower was dedicated as the new home for the expansive special collections of the Hoover Library. Eighty years later, Stanford University director of architecture Sapna Marfatia, University of Cincinnati architecture professor Jeffrey Tilman, and Hoover Institution Library & Archives director Eric Wakin discuss Hoover Tower’s construction, structural evolution, and symbolic importance.
“TEAR DOWN THIS WALL”: REFLECTING ON PRESIDENT REAGAN’S 1987 BERLIN WALL SPEECH
Friday, June 11, 2021The Hoover Institution and the Ronald Reagan Institute co-hosted this virtual event to celebrate President Reagan’s 1987 Berlin Wall speech, in which he famously called for Soviet general secretary Mikhail Gorbachev to “tear down this wall.” The panel conversation reflected on the speech 34 years later and discussed its continuing relevance to the challenges we face today.
THE UNITED STATES, CHINA, AND TAIWAN—A STRATEGY TO PREVENT WAR
Thursday, April 15, 2021Robert Blackwill and Philip Zelikow introduce their report on the growing danger of war between China and the United States over Taiwan and propose a new US strategy to prevent it as part of a collaboration of the Hoover Institution projects on China’s Global Sharp Power and Taiwan in the Indo-Pacific Region and its National Security Task Force.
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY @ THE HOOVER INSTITUTION | A FOCUS ON WOMEN IN NATIONAL SECURITY
Monday, March 8, 2021In celebration of International Women’s Day, the director of the Hoover Institution and the 66th secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice, hosted a conversation with four of Hoover’s leading female national security and foreign policy scholars: Elizabeth Economy, Rose Gottemoeller, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, and Amy Zegart. Through the lens of their own experiences, Secretary Rice and these scholars discussed women’s leadership, diversity, talent, and accomplishments in national security, as well as the challenges and rewards of working in this environment.
A DECADE OF US CYBER STRATEGY: A HOOVER CHAT SERIES WITH CYBER EXPERTS AND DEFENSE LEADERS
Friday, January 29, 2021 to Friday, March 26, 2021This series of discussions looked at the evolution of US cyber strategy over the last decade and featured authors from Ten Years In: Implementing Strategic Approaches to Cyberspace, including both academics and Department of Defense cyber leaders, as well as Hoover experts that discuss the history of cyber strategy, cyber warfare, cyberspace talent, and public-private innovation in cyberspace.
Finally, Hoover mourned the loss of four of our fellows this year. While their intellectual contributions to the institution and to society will live on, their presence and continued work will be greatly missed.
In Remembrance of
GEORGE P. SHULTZ: FEBRUARY 6, 2021
George P. Shultz was the Thomas W. and Susan B. Ford Distinguished Fellow at the Hoover Institution. He had a distinguished career in government, in academia, and in the world of business. Shultz was one of two individuals who have held four different federal cabinet posts; he taught at three of this country’s great universities; and for eight years he was president of a major engineering and construction company.
GERALD A. DORFMAN: MARCH 15, 2021
Gerald A. Dorfman was an emeritus senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and professor (by courtesy) of political science at Stanford. He was formerly associate director for research at the Hoover Institution.
Charles Hill was a career minister in the US Foreign Service and a research fellow at the Hoover Institution. Hill was executive aide to former US secretary of state George P. Shultz (1985–89) and served as special consultant on policy to the secretary-general of the United Nations (1992–96). He was also the Brady-Johnson Distinguished Fellow in Grand Strategy and a senior lecturer in humanities at Yale.
ANGELO M. CODEVILLA: SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
Angelo M. Codevilla, a native of Italy, was professor emeritus of international relations at Boston University. He was a US naval officer and Foreign Service officer and served on the Senate Intelligence Committee as well as on presidential transition teams. For a decade he was a senior research fellow at the Hoover Institution and a member of Hoover Military History Working Group.
