Hoover Press imprint: 226 books
Terrorism, the Laws of War, and the Constitution
Debating the Enemy Combatant Cases
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Terrorism, the Laws of War, and the Constitution examines three enemy combatant cases that represent the leading edge of U.S. efforts to devise legal rules, consistent with American constitutional principles, for waging the global war on terror. The distinguished contributors analyze the crucial questions...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
The authors provide a unique perspective on what is needed to make character education an effective, lasting part of our educational agenda. Each chapter points out the directions that character education must take today and offers strategies essential for making progress in the field.
Motherland Lost
The Egyptian and Coptic Quest for Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Samuel Tadros provides a clear understanding of Copts—the native Egyptian Christians—and their crisis of modernity in conjunction with the overall developments in Egypt as it faced its own struggles with modernity. He argues that the modern plight of Copts is inseparable from the crisis of modernity...
Invisible Slaves
The Victims and Perpetrators of Modern-Day Slavery
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
In Invisible Slaves, W. Kurt Hauser discusses slavery around the world, with research and firsthand stories that reframe slavery as a modern-day crisis, not a historical phenomenon or third-world issue. Identifying four types of slavery—chattel slavery, debt bondage, forced labor, and sex slavery—he...
Soviet Defectors
The KGB Wanted List
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
The topic of defection is taboo in the USSR, and the Soviets, are anxious to silence, downplay, or distort every case of defection. Surprisingly, Vladislav Krasnov reports, the free world has often played along with these Soviet efforts by treating defection primarily as a secretive matter best left...
Discovering the Hidden Listener
An Empirical Assessment of Radio Liberty and Western Broadcasting to the USSR during the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
This overview of the impact of Western radio and Radio Liberty—from the listeners' perspective—addresses questions of audience size and listening trends over time, listeners' demographic traits and attitudes, and more. Based on more than 50,000 interviews with Soviet citizens, the book sheds light on what these broadcasts meant to listeners as the USSR moved toward a freer society.
State of Disrepair
Fixing the Culture and Practices of the State Department
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Kori Schake shows how the deficiencies in focus, education, and programmatic proficiency impede the work of the State Department and suggests how investing in those areas could make the agency significantly more successful at building stable and prosperous democratic governments around the world....
Neither Left nor Right
Selected Columns
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
In Neither Left nor Right, a collection of his columns, Machan, a relentless advocate of the political philosophy of libertarianism, offers his always well-reasoned, often controversial opinions on the variety of threats to individual liberty in the United States and around the world.
by Tibor R. Machan
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
In Liberty and Democracy, contributors grapple with the issue of the proper role of democracy in a society that is committed to respecting protecting the individual rights of all. They challenge conventional thinking, offering provocative ideas on democracy and individual freedom.
by Peter Berkowitz
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Varieties of Progressivism in America focuses on the debates within the party of progress about how best to increase opportunity in America and to make social and political life more egalitarian. The contributors to this volume offer different expertise and varying perspectives as they examine the...
Leviathan
The Growth of Local Government and the Erosion of Liberty
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
In Leviathan, renowned public interest attorney Bolick describes how the unchecked growth of local governments is eroding our nation's productive vitality and threatening us with "grassroots tyranny"—and ultimately reveals that, although the rules are often rigged in favor of local governments and against ordinary citizens, we can take action to rein in these bureaucracies.
by Richard A. Epstein
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
With the Obama administration in the White House and an overwhelmingly Democratic Congress, passage of the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) appears likely. But it can and should be stopped if at all possible, given the adverse impact that it will have on the workplace and the overall economy. In The...
Swing Dance
Justice O'Connor and the Michigan Muddle
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
With a journalist's eye for detail, Robert Zelnick looks at Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's key role in the controversial University of Michigan affirmative action cases of 2003, providing key background information, detailed descriptions of daily arguments, and an evaluation of the final rulings.
Social Security
The Unfinished Work
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Arguing that an equitable Social Security solution will be unattainable unless we bring stakeholders together around a common understanding of the facts and of the need to take action to address them, former White House adviser Charles Blahous presents some often misunderstood, basic factual background...