Photo, above: 1893-7: Herbert Hoover (seated, left) and other members of the Stanford surveying squad, 1893. (unknown copyright)

JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW

Co-host: Mary Kissel, Wall Street Journal editorial board; host of OpinionJournal.com

Hour One

Friday  10 May 2014 / Hour 1, Block A: Panel of scholars at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University; from Monday 5 May: Kiron Skinner, Kori Schake, Abbas Milani, Peter Berkowitz. (1 of 6)

Kiron K. Skinner is the W. Glenn Campbell Research Fellow and a member of the Shultz-Stephenson Task Force on Energy Policy, both at the Hoover Institution. At Carnegie Mellon University, she is the founding director of the Center for International Relations and Politics; director of the Institute for Strategic Analysis; university adviser on national security policy; and associate professor of political science. Her areas of expertise are international relations, US foreign policy, and political strategy.

Friday  10 May 2014 / Hour 1, Block B: Panel of scholars at Hoover Institution, Stanford University; from Monday 5 May: Kiron Skinner, Kori Schake, Abbas Milani, Peter Berkowitz. (2 of 6)

Kori Schake is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution. During the 2008 presidential election, she was senior policy adviser to the McCain-Palin campaign, responsible for policy development and outreach in the areas of foreign and defense policy. During President Bush's first term, she was the director for Defense Strategy and Requirements on the National Security Council. She was responsible for interagency coordination for long-term defense planning and coalition maintenance issues. Projects Schake contributed to include conceptualizing and budgeting for continued transformation of defense practices; the most significant realignment of US military forces and bases around the world since 1950; creating NATO's Allied Command Transformation and the NATO Response Force; and recruiting and retaining coalition partners for operations in Afghanistan and Iraq.

She has held the Distinguished Chair of International Security Studies at West Point, and also served in the faculties of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, the University of Maryland’s School of Public Affairs, and the National Defense University. She is on the boards of the journal Orbis and the Centre for European Reform and blogs for Foreign Policy’s Shadow Government.

Friday  10 May 2014 / Hour 1, Block C: Panel of scholars at Hoover Institution, Stanford University; from Monday 5 May: Kiron Skinner, Kori Schake, Abbas Milani, Peter Berkowitz. (3 of 6)

Peter Berkowitz is the Tad and Dianne Taube Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. At Hoover, he chairs the Jean Perkins Task Force on National Security and Law and cochairs the Boyd and Jill Smith Task Force on Virtues of a Free Society. He studies and writes about, among other things, constitutional government, conservatism and progressivism in the United States, liberal education, national security and law, and Middle East politics. He is the author of Constitutional Conservatism: Liberty, Self-Government, and Political Moderation (Hoover Institution Press, 2013), Israel and the Struggle over the International Laws of War (Hoover Institution Press, 2012), Virtue and the Making of Modern Liberalism (Princeton University Press, 1999) and Nietzsche: The Ethics of an Immoralist (Harvard University Press, 1995). He holds a JD and a PhD in political science from Yale University; an MA in philosophy from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem; and a BA in English literature from Swarthmore College.

Friday  10 May 2014 / Hour 1, Block D: Panel of scholars at Hoover Institution, Stanford University; from Monday 5 May: Kiron Skinner, Kori Schake, Abbas Milani, Peter Berkowitz. (4 of 6)

Abbas Milani is a research fellow and codirector of the Iran Democracy Project at the Hoover Institution. In addition, Milani is 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. Before going to Hoover, Milani was a professor of history and political science and chair of the department at Notre Dame de Namur University and a research fellow at the Institute of International Studies at the University of California at Berkeley, in addition to being an assistant professor in the faculty of law and political science at Tehran University and a member of the board of directors of Tehran University's Center for International Studies from 1979 to 1987. Milani was also a research fellow at the Iranian Center for Social Research from 1977 to 1978 and an assistant professor at the National University of Iran from 1975 to 1977

Hour Two

Friday  10 May 2014 / Hour 2, Block A: Panel of scholars at Hoover Institution, Stanford University; from Monday 5 May: Kiron Skinner, Kori Schake, Abbas Milani, Peter Berkowitz. (5 of 6)

 

Friday  10 May 2014 / Hour 2, Block B: Panel of scholars at Hoover Institution, Stanford University; from Monday 5 May: Kiron Skinner, Kori Schake, Abbas Milani, Peter Berkowitz. (6 of 6)

Friday  10 May 2014 / Hour 2, Block C:  Richard Sousa, Hoover.

Richard Sousa is senior associate director and a research fellow at the Hoover Institution. He served as director of the library and archives from 2007 to 2012. He has been at Hoover since 1990.

Sousa, an economist, specializes in human capital, discrimination, labor market issues, and K–12 education. He coauthored School Figures: The Data behind the Debate (Hoover Institution Press, 2003). Using facts and figures, this volume provides a concise and understandable analysis of the state of K–12 education in the United States. He is coeditor of Reacting to the Spending Spree: Policy Changes We Can Afford (Hoover Institution Press, 2009), an early assessment of what the Obama administration faced and how it was reacting to the economic crisis of 2008–9.

Friday  10 May 2014 / Hour 2, Block D:  David Henderson, Hoover. 

David R. Henderson is a research fellow with the Hoover Institution. He is also an associate professor of economics at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California.

Henderson's writing focuses on public policy. His specialty is in making economic issues and analyses clear and interesting to general audiences. Two themes emerge from his writing: (1) that the unintended consequences of government regulation and spending are usually worse than the problems they are supposed to solve and (2) that freedom and free markets work to solve people's problems.

David Henderson is the editor of The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics (Warner Books, 2007), a book that communicates to a general audience what and how economists think. The Wall Street Journal commented, "His brainchild is a tribute to the power of the short, declarative sentence." The encyclopedia went through three printings and was translated into Spanish and Portuguese. It is now on the web at http://www.econlib.org/library/CEE.html. He coauthored Making Great Decisions in Business and Life (2006). Henderson's book, The Joy of Freedom: An Economist's Odyssey (Financial Times Prentice Hall, 2001), has been translated into Russian. Henderson also writes frequently for the Wall Street Journal and Fortune and, from 1997 to 2000, was a monthly columnist with Red Herring, an information technology magazine. He currently serves as an adviser to LifeSharers, a nonprofit network of organ and tissue donors. Henderson has been on the faculty of the Naval Postgraduate School since 1984 and a research fellow with Hoover since 1990.

Hour Three

Friday  10 May 2014 / Hour 3, Block A: Panel of scholars at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University: Terry Moe, Williamson Evers, William Damon. (1 of  4)

Terry M. Moe is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, a member of the Institution's Koret Task Force on K–12 education, and the William Bennett Munro Professor of political science at Stanford University.  Moe has written extensively on the politics and reform of American education. In his new book, Special Interest: Teachers Unions and America’s Public Schools (2011), he provides the first comprehensive study of America’s teachers unions: exploring their historical rise to power, the organizational foundations of that power, the ways it is exercised in collective bargaining and politics, and its consequences for the nation’s public schools.

His seminal book with John E. Chubb, Politics, Markets, and America's Schools, is among the most influential and controversial works on education to be published during the last two decades—showing how politics shapes and undermines the public schools and arguing the value of school choice. In Liberating Learning: Technology, Politics, and the Future of America (2009), Moe and John E. Chubb map out a dynamic vision of the nation's educational future, showing how the ideas and innovations of information technology will ultimately transform the public schools to the benefit of the nation and its children. For more information, visit the Liberating Learning website.

Moe is also the author of Schools, Vouchers, and the American Public (2001), the first detailed analysis of public opinion on the voucher issue. In addition, he is editor of A Primer on America's Schools (Hoover Institution Press, 2001) and the author of many published articles. In 2005, Moe received the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation Prize for Excellence in Education. As a political scientist, Moe’s research interests extend well beyond public education. He has written extensively on public bureaucracy and the presidency, and the theory of political institutions more generally. His most prominent articles include "The New Economics of Organization," "The Politicized Presidency," "The Politics of Bureaucratic Structure," "Political Institutions: The Neglected Side of the Story," "Presidents, Institutions, and Theory," “The Presidential Power of Unilateral Action” (with William Howell), and “Power and Political Institutions.” In addition to his positions at Stanford and Hoover, Moe has served as a senior fellow at the Brookings Institute in Washington, D.C.

Friday  10 May 2014 / Hour 3, Block B: Panel of scholars at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University: Terry Moe, Williamson Evers, William Damon. (2 of 4)

Williamson M. Evers, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and a member of the Institution’s Koret Task Force on K–12 Education, specializes in research on education policy especially as it pertains to curriculum, teaching, testing, accountability, and school finance from kindergarten through high school. Evers was the US assistant secretary of education for policy from 2007 to 2009. He was a senior adviser to US secretary of education Margaret Spellings during 2007. From July to December 2003, Evers served in Iraq as a senior adviser for education to Administrator L. Paul Bremer of the Coalition Provisional Authority.

Former governor Arnold Schwarzenegger appointed Evers to the California State Academic Content Standards Commission in 2010. In 1996 Governor Pete Wilson appointed Evers to the earlier California State Commission for the Establishment of Academic Content and Performance Standards. He is the only individual to have served on both standards commissions, both of which proposed the subject matter that students should learn in each grade. Evers was elected in November 2004 to the Santa Clara County Board of Education, on which he served until February 2007. He is the immediate past president of the board of directors of the East Palo Alto Charter School on which he served from 1997 until 2004.

Friday  10 May 2014 / Hour 3, Block C: Panel of scholars at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University: Terry Moe, Williamson Evers, William Damon. (3 of  4)

William Damon is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, the director of the Stanford Center on Adolescence, and a professor of education at Stanford University. Damon's research explores how people develop integrity and purpose in their work, family, and civic life. Damon's current work focuses on civic and entrepreneurial purpose among the young. He examines how young Americans can be educated to become devoted citizens and successful entrepreneurs. Damon's work has been used in professional training programs in fields such as journalism, law, and business and in character and civic education programs in grades K–12.

Damon’s most recent book is Failing Liberty 101 (Hoover Press, 2011). Other recent books include The Path to Purpose: How Young People Find Their Calling in Life (2008) and Taking Philanthropy Seriously (2006); Damon’s earlier books include Bringing in a New Era in Character Education (Hoover Press, 2002); Greater Expectations: Overcoming the Culture of Indulgence in Our Homes and Schools (1995); and The Moral Child (1992). Damon is editor in chief of The Handbook of Child Psychology, fifth and sixth editions (1998 and 2006). He is an elected member of the National Academy of Education and a fellow of the American Educational Research Association.  Damon has received awards and grants from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the John Templeton Foundation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Spencer Foundation, the Thrive Foundation for Youth, and the Pew Charitable Trusts.

Friday  10 May 2014 / Hour 3, Block D: Panel of scholars at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University: Terry Moe, Williamson Evers, William Damon. (4 of  4)

Hour Four

Friday  10 May 2014 / Hour 4, Block A:  George H. Nash, author, The Crusade Years, 1933–1955: Herbert Hoover's Lost Memoir of the New Deal Era and Its Aftermath.  A forty-minute video, to which this is the audio. Superbly introduced and edited by the acclaimed Herbert Hoover biographer George H. Nash, The Crusade Years is far more than a simple apologia pro vita sua  (1 of 4)

Friday  10 May 2014 / Hour 4, Block B:  George H. Nash, author, The Crusade Years, 1933–1955: Herbert Hoover's Lost Memoir of the New Deal Era and Its Aftermath.  A forty-minute video, to which this is the audio. George Nash, always the curious academic detective, has discovered and published the private thoughts of Hoover on the New Deal . . . (2 of 4)

Friday  10 May 2014 / Hour 4, Block C: George H. Nash, author, The Crusade Years, 1933–1955: Herbert Hoover's Lost Memoir of the New Deal Era and Its Aftermath.  A forty-minute video, to which this is the audio. Herbert Hoover’s life, despite his difficult presidency, was followed by his many humanitarian works. After World War II, he worked to provide food for the new Germany . . . (3 of 4)

Friday  10 May 2014 / Hour 4, Block D:  George H. Nash, author, The Crusade Years, 1933–1955: Herbert Hoover's Lost Memoir of the New Deal Era and Its Aftermath.  A forty-minute video, to which this is the audio. With unparalleled and meticulous scholarship, the editor George Nash reveals the Herbert Hoover we never knew  . . .  (4 of 4)