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The Robert L. Capp collection at the Hoover Institution Archives contains ten never-before-published photographs illustrating the immediate aftermath of the Hiroshima bombing. These photographs, taken by an unknown Japanese photographer, were found in 1945 among rolls of undeveloped film in a cave outside Hiroshima by U.S. serviceman Robert L. Capp, who was attached to the occupation forces. Unlike most photos of the Hiroshima bombing, these dramatically convey the human as well as material destruction unleashed by the atomic bomb. Mr. Capp donated them to the Hoover Archives in 1998 with the provision that they not be reproduced until 2008. Three...

As the trade deficit between the United States and China continues to increase, should Americans be worried? Or should they be cheering China’s trade liberalization and enjoying the bargains? The Hoover Institution has just released “The U.S.-China Trade Deficit: Reason for Worry?” It’s a good summary of the China-U.S. trading arrangement, and it addresses both benefits and concerns about the relationship as expressed by both Chinese and American parties. http://www.hoover.org/research/focusonissues/focus/12436706.html

It is hard to imagine a sadder group of people than the children of Americans who spied for the Soviet Union. I am thinking of the two sons of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, the son of Alger Hiss, and now Harry Dexter White’s two daughters, who in a recent letter to the New York Times Book Review rebuke a reviewer for referring to their father, a high-ranking Treasury official under Roosevelt and Truman, as a Soviet agent. What a tragedy the end of the Cold War has been for the kids and grandkids of the spies. How do they talk...

Some faculty and students at Stanford University say they are outraged by the fellowship appointment of former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. Rumsfeld, who resigned last year amid intense criticism of his handling of the Iraq war, has been given a one-year fellowship at the Hoover Institution at Stanford, the San Francisco Chronicle reported Sunday.

Former U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld, who directed the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and then resigned last November after months of mounting pressure, will join Stanford University's Hoover Institution as a visiting fellow. Rumsfeld, who also led the nation's response to Sept. 11, will participate in the institution's new task force of scholars and experts studying post-Sept. 11 ideology and terror, according to Hoover director John Raisian, in a statement released Friday afternoon. "I have asked Don to join the distinguished group of scholars that will pursue new insights on the direction of thinking that the United...

As he prepares to announce his candidacy for president, probably sometime next month, former Senator Fred Thompson is on a persuasion tour this week, not a listening tour. He heads to California, where his itinerary includes a series of private meetings at the conservative Hoover Institution, a public policy research center at Stanford University. Advisers say he hopes to win the backing of some of Hoover’s influential fellows. One of those fellows, George P. Shultz, the former Secretary of State in the Reagan administration, is already backing Senator John McCain, citing the steadfastness of his character and likening him to...

Protesters force Bush to move Stanford meeting President Bush's visit to Stanford University's Hoover Institution was quickly moved to another location after more than 1,000 protesters converged around the Hoover tower. The White House said the protesters blocked the only road into the central areaof the campus where Hoover is located, which forced a meeting with several Hoover fellows to be moved to the campus home of former Secretary of State George Shultz, a Hoover fellow who organized the gathering. The motorcade instead traveled to the house, which is on the outer edge of campus. The change in plans delayed...

snip... America-bashing is anti-Americanism at its most radical and totalizing. Its goal is not to advise, but to condemn; not to fix, but to destroy. It repudiates every thought of reform in any normal sense; it sees no difference between American liberals and American conservatives; it views every American action, both present and past, as an act of deliberate oppression and systemic exploitation. It is not that America went wrong here or there; it is that it is wrong root and branch. The conviction at the heart of those who engage in it is really quite simple: that America is...

WASHINGTON, May 28 - Without it, the Federalist Society might not exist, nor its network of 35,000 conservative lawyers. Economic analysis might hold less sway in American courts. The premier idea factories of the right, from the Hoover Institution to the Heritage Foundation, would have lost millions of dollars in core support. And some classics of the conservative canon would have lost their financier, including Allan Bloom's lament of academic decline and Charles Murray's attacks on welfare. Part Medici, part venture capitalist, the John M. Olin Foundation has spent three decades financing the intellectual rise of the right and exciting...

STANFORD, Calif. (AP) - Still locked in a stalemate with legislators over a state budget, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger was scheduled to deliver a private speech Wednesday at the Hoover Institution, the Stanford University think tank he turned to as a candidate to help shape his economic vision and budget plans. Schwarzenegger was to be the keynote speaker at an annual meeting of Hoover's board of overseers, as well as about 1,000 Stanford community members and their guests. But despite being embroiled in a high-stakes showdown with legislators over the state budget - specifically, how to fund state and local governments...

The economics of school choice December 20, 2003BY HERBERT J. WALBERG AND JOSEPH L. BAST It's a paradox that is causing increasing alarm among the advocates of school choice: While polls show increasing majorities of parents -- especially black and other nonwhite parents -- favor school choice, little progress is being made legislatively.After the U.S. Supreme Court victory for school vouchers last year, many school choice supporters cautiously predicted legislative breakthroughs in 2002 and 2003. But the school choice movement has seen few victories since then, besides modest expansion of the three pilot voucher programs in Milwaukee, Cleveland and...

<p>A leading conservative foundation has named two newspaper columnists, a law professor and a presidential adviser on bioethics as recipients of its inaugural Bradley Prizes.</p> <p>The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation announced yesterday that the prizes &#8212; worth $250,000 each &#8212; were awarded to Harvard law professor Mary Ann Glendon, bioethicist Leon R. Kass, Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer and Hoover Institution economist Thomas Sowell, whose syndicated column appears in The Washington Times.</p>

Remember the old conservative charge that many of the Democrats here in America were playing footsie with the Soviets? Some Republicans even said the Russians viewed the Democrats as their favorite party. Now bombshell revelations prove these accusations beyond a shadow of a doubt. Peter Schweizer, a Hoover Institution research fellow, has just written a new book, "Reagan's War: The Epic Story of His Forty-Year Struggle and Final Triumph Over Communism." This book may well force historians to revise the history of the Cold War. Schweizer, after scouring once-classified KGB, East German Stasi and Soviet Communist Party files, discovered incontrovertible...

California gubernatorial candidate Arnold Schwarzenegger is looking for advice from the same conservative think tank President Bush looks to for ideas. The actor has recruited advisors from the famed Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace whose members helped President Bush put together his economic plan according to the Associated Press. The AP reports that the Stanford University based institute's economists who helped Bush with his tax cut programs are assisting Schwarzenegger in devising his policies on taxes, the economy and unemployment The Hoover Institution on the Stanford campus in Palo Alto was founded by Herbert Hoover in 1919...

PALO ALTO, Calif. (AP) — Arnold Schwarzenegger has been vague about his economic plans for California, but clues may come from his advisers, many of whom hail from a conservative think tank whose members helped develop President Bush's economic plan. Hoover Institution economists are advising the Republican actor on taxes, unemployment and the economy in his race to replace Gov. Gray Davis on Oct. 7. They also helped Bush develop his economic plans, including two major income tax cuts. Founded in 1919 by Republican Herbert Hoover, Stanford University's Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace espouses a free-market approach in...

FRIEDMAN FOR ARNOLD: Nobel Laureate Milton Friedman of Stanford University's Hoover Institution told HUMAN EVENTS' John Gizzi on August 21 that he would be endorsing Arnold Schwarzenegger for governor of California. "My impression is that he is fundamentally a small- government libertarian, although that is belied to some extent by the proposition he got through last year [providing tax dollars for after-school programs]," said Friedman. He added that he and wife Rose were "favorably impressed" with Schwarzenegger when they met over dinner and discussed the free market more than twenty years ago. *NO NEW TAXES? When asked about Schwarzenegger's refusal...