Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace

Background

The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace is a public policy think tank and library located on the campus at Stanford University in California. Founded in 1919 by Herbert Hoover, the Institution was originally known as the Hoover War Library, the “largest library in the world dealing with the Great War.”¹“About Herbert Hoover,” Hoover Institution Standford University. Archived April 5, 2016. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/dgftS

In 1946, as its agenda expanded to include more research activities, it was renamed the Hoover Institute and Library on War, Revolution and Peace. In 1956 it reached the name it holds today: the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace.²“About Herbert Hoover,” Hoover Institution Standford University. Archived April 5, 2016. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/dgftS

According to the Hoover Institution’s mission statement, the primary tenets of the organization are representative government, private enterprise, and to “limit government intrusion into the lives of individuals.”³“Mission Statement,” Hoover Institution Stanford University. Archived April 5, 2016. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/p4UGy

In 1959, the Institution stated that “the purpose of this institution must be, by its research and publications, to demonstrate the evils of the doctrines of Karl Marx — whether Communism, Socialism, economic materialism, or atheism—thus to protect the American way of life from such ideologies, their conspiracies, and to reaffirm the validity of the American System.”⁴Cited in Paul Dixon, (1971) Think Tanks, New York: Atheneum, p. 304. ⁵George H. Nash. Herbert Hoover and Stanford University. Hoover Press Publication, 1988. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/CTzTe

According to their website, the Institute’s overarching purpose is to:⁶“About Herbert Hoover,” Hoover Institution Standford University. Archived April 5, 2016. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/dgftS

• “Assemble the requisite sources of knowledge pertaining to, and to understand the causes and consequences of, economic, political, and social changes in societies, at home and abroad
• “Analyze the effects of government actions relating to public policy
• “Generate and disseminate ideas directed at positive policy formation using reasoned arguments and intellectual rigor, converting conceptual insights into practical policy initiatives judged to be beneficial to society”

Climate change skeptic Thomas Gale Moore, author of “Climate of Fear: Why We Shouldn’t Worry About Global Warming” is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, and he has also written a number of publications on their behalf.⁷“Thomas Gale Moore: senior fellow,” Hoover Institution, Stanford University. Archived April 5, 2016. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/1ufhT

Research Teams

The Hoover Institution maintains a number of research teams and task forces, including the following:⁸“Hoover Research,” Hoover Institution. Accessed April 6, 2016. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmogBlog. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/Sl73s

• Arctic Security Initiative
• Economic Policy Working Group
• Energy Policy Task Force
• Working Group on Foreign Policy and Grand Strategy
• Health Care Policy Working Group
• Immigration Reform Initiative
• Working Group on Intellectual Proprerty, Innovation and Prosperity
• Working Group on Islamism and the International Order
• K-12 Educational Task Force
• Working Group on the Role of Military History and Contemporary Conflict
• National Security and Law Task Force
• Property Rights, Freedom, and Prosperity Task Force
• Virtues of a Free Society Task Force

Stance on Climate Change

September 2015

“Regardless of whether global temperatures follow the historic trend and take half a millennium to rise by 4°C or follow a ‘hockey stick’ upturn predicted by the IPCC and take one half of a century to rise by 4°C, we have the time to adapt.”⁹Terry Anderson. “Climate Change And Human Ingenuity,” Defining Ideas (Hoover Institution Journal), September 10, 2015. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmogBlog. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/eiUuz

2014

“We agree with most scientists who have seriously studied the issue on the causal relationship between human CO2 emissions and a changing climate, and we also accept that it would be preferable to avoid the broad impacts that would likely result were global climate change to occur rapidly. Reaching such a conclusion, however, does not lead us to align with the global-warming alarmists who want us to precipitously abort our use of fossil fuels. To do so in the United States using current technology would be economically disastrous domestically and, on a worldwide basis, environmentally inconsequential. Climate change concerns should be an important input to our energy policies, not an overriding determinant. ”¹⁰Thomas F. Stephenson. “A More Balanced Approach to Climate Change Policy” (PDF), Hoover Institution, 2014. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmogBlog.

June 2014

“In other words mitigation to slow or halt GHG emissions will be costly today with little payout over the next 100, if not 1000, years, making it unlikely that large mitigation projects have a positive net present value. And for these results to occur, the United States would have to be joined by the rest of the industrialized nations as well as the developing ones, something that is not going to happen.”¹¹Terry Anderson. “Hot Air on Climate Change,” Defining Ideas (Hoover Institution Journal), June 12, 2014. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmogBlog. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/ZxT1R

July 30, 2004

“Because rich economies sequester more carbon than poor ones, stored carbon must be subtracted from emissions to determine an economy’s net addition to greenhouse gas emissions. McCormick’s data show that ‘rich countries take more carbon out of the air than poorer ones’ and that ‘the growth rate of net carbon emission per person will soon be negative in the United States.’ Put differently—richer may well be cooler.”¹²Terry Anderson. “Cooling the Global-Warming Debate,” Hoover Digest, July 30, 2004. Archived April 5, 2016. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmogBlog. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/q7zHf

July 2001

“The proposals to curb industry and energy consumption to avert global warming echo the ‘limits to growth’ alarms of the 1970s. Back then, groups like the Club of Rome proposed Draconian curbs on industrialization and urbanization because the world was supposedly about to run out of petroleum and other natural resources. These arguments resonated with the oil crises of the decade (even though these crises were, in fact, created by strategic, political, and economic factors, not true scarcity). Eventually deregulation and a saner foreign policy exposed these arguments for the shams that they were.”¹³Bruce Berkowitz. “The Pseudoscience of Global Warming,” Hoover Digest, No 3 (July 30, 2001). Archived .pdf on file at DeSmogBlog. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/2wUiA

Funding

The following is based on data archived at the Conservative Transparency project as well as research from publicly available 990 tax records. Note that not all individual funding records have been verified by DeSmog.¹⁴“Hoover Institution,” Conservative Transparency. Accessed May 18, 2017.

View the attached spreadsheet for additional information on Hoover Institution funding by year (.xlsx).

SourceWatch lists the following additional funding sources:¹⁵“Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace,” SourceWatch. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/goevX

• Archer Daniels Midland Foundation
• ARCO Foundation
• Boeing-McDonnell Foundation
• Chrysler Corporation Fund
• Dean Witter Foundation
• Exxon Educational Foundation
• Ford Motor Company Fund
• General Motors Foundation
• J.P. Morgan Charitable Trust
• Merrill Lynch & Company Foundation
• Procter & Gamble Fund
• Rockwell International Corporation Trust
• Transamerica Foundation

ExxonMobil Funding

Greenpeace’s ExxonSecrets reports that the Institution has received at least $295,000 from ExxonMobil since 1998.¹⁶ExxonSecrets Factsheet: HOOVER INSTITUTION ON WAR, REVOLUTION AND PEACE, STANFORD UNIVERSITY, HOOVER INSTITUTION. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/fVgaS

990 Forms

Key People

The Hoover Institution has been influential in the American conservative and libertarian movement with a number of notable scholars and fellows having connections to various Republican administrations.

High-profile conservative fellows have included Edwin Meese, Condoleezza Rice, George Shultz, Thomas Sowell, Shelby Steele, and Amy Zegart. In May, 2007 retired U.S. Army General John P. Abizaid, former commander of the U.S. Central Command, became the Institution’s first Annenberg Distinguished Visiting Fellow where he served until 2010.¹⁷“Former U.S. Central Command Chief General John Abizaid Appointed Hoover Distinguished Visiting Fellow” (Press Release), Hoover Institution Stanford University, May 7, 2007. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/tMAof, ¹⁸“Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace,” SourceWatch. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/goevX, ¹⁹“Former U.S. Central Command Chief General John Abizaid Appointed Hoover Distinguished Visiting Fellow” (Press Release), Hoover Institution Stanford University, May 7, 2007. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/4CejY

Below is a list of notable individuals present in the Hoover Institution’s staff list between 2004 and 2016. View the attached spreadsheet for a complete list of Hoover Institution people by category (.xlsx).

Board of Overseers

Chair

Name	200420 “About Hoover: Board of Overseers,” Hoover Institution. Archived October 12, 2004. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/8MSmK	200721“Board of Overseers,” Hoover Institution. Archived November 10, 2007.  Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/VYc94	201222“Board of Overseers,” Hoover Institution. Archived November 2, 2012. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmogBlog. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/4CejY	201623“Board of Overseers,” Hoover Institution. Archived April 5, 2016. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmogBlog. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/o0ucL
Herbert M. Dwight			Y
Peter B. Bedford		Y
Thomas J. Tierney				Y
W. Kurt Hauser	Y

Vice Chairs

Name	200424 “About Hoover: Board of Overseers,” Hoover Institution. Archived October 12, 2004. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/8MSmK	200725“Board of Overseers,” Hoover Institution. Archived November 10, 2007.  Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/VYc94	201226“Board of Overseers,” Hoover Institution. Archived November 2, 2012. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmogBlog. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/4CejY	201627“Board of Overseers,” Hoover Institution. Archived April 5, 2016. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmogBlog. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/o0ucL
Boyd C. Smith			Y	Y
David T. Traitel		Y
Peter B. Bedford	Y
Robert J. Oster			Y
Thomas F. Stephenson				Y

Key Board Members (Overseers)

Name	200428 “About Hoover: Board of Overseers,” Hoover Institution. Archived October 12, 2004. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/8MSmK	200729“Board of Overseers,” Hoover Institution. Archived November 10, 2007.  Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/VYc94	201230“Board of Overseers,” Hoover Institution. Archived November 2, 2012. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmogBlog. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/4CejY	201631“Board of Overseers,” Hoover Institution. Archived April 5, 2016. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmogBlog. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/o0ucL
Barbara Barrett			Y	Y
Burton J. McMurtry	Y	Y	Y	Y
David B. Kennedy	Y	Y	Y
David M. Rubenstein		Y
Donald L. Lucas		Y
George E. McCown	Y
Heather R. Higgins	Y		Y	Y
Howard H. Leach		Y	Y	Y
James E. Piereson	Y		Y
James Q. Wilson	Y
Jay A. Precourt			Y	Y
John E. Swearingen	Y
John W. Madigan	Y
Kenneth T. Derr	Y
Lewis W. Coleman	Y
Margaret Hoover		Y	Y	Y
Martin Anderson	Y	Y	Y
Michael Gleba			Y	Y
Paul M. Wythes	Y		Y
Peter A. Thiel		Y	Y
Richard M. Scaife	Y	Y	Y
Robert J. Herbold	Y	Y
Stephen D. Bechtel Jr.		Y	Y
Thomas F. Stephenson	Y		Y	Y
Thomas J. Healey	Y	Y
Thomas J. Tierney	Y	Y	Y	Y
Wendy H. Borcherdt	Y	Y	Y
William D. Walsh		Y
William E. Simon Jr.		Y	Y
William H. Draper III		Y
William J. Hume	Y	Y
William K. Bowes Jr.	Y	Y	Y	Y

Key Fellows

Name	200432“Fellows: Index By Title,” Hoover Institution. Archived November 4, 2004. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/d0bqd	200733“Senior Fellows,” Hoover Institution. Archived September 16, 2007. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/XRwrD, 34“Research Fellows,” Hoover Institution. Archived September 16, 2007. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/aGbEj,35“Distinguished Visiting Fellows,” Hoover Institution. Archived September 17, 2007.  Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/1Jrp3,36“National Security Affairs Fellows,” Hoover Institution. Archived September 13, 2007.  Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/6WKtw,37“Senior Research Fellows,” Hoover Institution. Archived September 16, 2007.  Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/p1nKm,38“W. GLENN CAMPBELL AND RITA RICARDO–CAMPBELL NATIONAL FELLOWS,” Hoover Institution. Archived October 29, 2007.  Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/MhwZt,39“Distinguished Fellow,” Hoover Institution. Archived September 13, 2007. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/Y2FfX, 40“Honorary Fellows,” Hoover Institution. Archived September 16, 2007. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/eZjuI	201241“2010 Report: Fellows,” Hoover Institution. Archived October 21, 2012. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmogblog. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/SQd7Z	201642“Hoover Fellows,” Hoover Institution. Accessed April 5, 2016. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmogBlog. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/ufyJk
Abbas M. Milani	Y	Y	Y	Y
Alberto Mingardi			Y
Alejandro Toledo		Y	Y
Alex Inkeles	Y	Y
Allan H. Meltzer			Y	Y
Alvin Rabushka	Y	Y	Y	Y
Anne Applebaum			Y
Boaz Ganor			Y
Bobby Inman	Y		Y	Y
Charles Blahous			Y	Y
Charles Hill	Y	Y	Y	Y
Chester E. Finn Jr.	Y	Y	Y	Y
Clint Bolick		Y	Y	Y
Condoleezza Rice	Y	Y	Y	Y
Daniel Pipes			Y
David Davenport	Y	Y	Y	Y
David R. Henderson	Y	Y	Y	Y
David W. Brady	Y	Y	Y	Y
Deborah Amos			Y
Dennis L. Bark	Y	Y	Y	Y
Diane Ravitch	Y	Y
Dinesh D’Souza	Y	Y
Donald Rumsfeld		Y
Douglass C. North	Y	Y	Y	Y
Edward Paul Lazear	Y	Y	Y	Y
Edwin Meese III	Y	Y	Y	Y
Fouad Ajami			Y
Fred Barnes			Y
Gary S. Becker	Y	Y	Y
George P. Shultz	Y	Y	Y	Y
Helene Cooper			Y
Henry A. Kissinger				Y
Henry I. Miller	Y	Y	Y	Y
Henry S. Rowen	Y	Y	Y	Y
Herbert J. Walberg	Y	Y	Y
Herbert Weiss			Y
Jack Goldsmith				Y
James C. Miller III	Y	Y	Y	Y
James E. Goodby			Y	Y
James L. Sweeney	Y	Y	Y	Y
John A. Bohn	Y
John A. Ferejohn	Y	Y	Y
John Abizaid		Y	Y
John B. Dunlop		Y
John B. Taylor	Y	Y	Y	Y
John E. Chubb	Y	Y	Y	Y
John H. Bunzel	Y	Y	Y	Y
John Podhoretz			Y
John Raisian	Y	Y	Y	Y
John Shoven	Y	Y	Y	Y
Kanan Makiya			Y
Kenneth Anderson	Y
Kevin M. Murphy	Y	Y	Y	Y
Kiron K. Skinner	Y	Y	Y	Y
Kori Schake			Y	Y
Larry J. Diamond	Y		Y	Y
Laura E. Huggins	Y	Y	Y
Lawrence Chickering	Y
Lawrence Silberman			Y
Mara Liasson			Y
Marc Alexander Thiessen			Y
Mark Harrison		Y
Martin Anderson	Y	Y	Y
Michael A. McFaul	Y	Y	Y	Y
Michael Goldfarb			Y
Michael H. Armacost	Y	Y	Y
Michael J. Boskin	Y	Y	Y	Y
Michael Mcconnell			Y	Y
Milton Friedman	Y	Y
Morris P. Fiorina	Y	Y	Y	Y
Newt Gingrich	Y	Y
Niall Ferguson	Y	Y	Y	Y
Nick Schmidle			Y
Paul E. Peterson	Y	Y	Y	Y
Paul T. Hill	Y	Y	Y
Pete Wilson	Y	Y	Y	Y
Peter Berkowitz	Y	Y	Y	Y
Peter Jones				Y
Philip J. Romero	Y
R. James Woolsey			Y
Richard A. Epstein	Y	Y	Y	Y
Richard Cummings			Y
Richard Sousa	Y	Y	Y	Y
Richard V. Allen	Y	Y	Y	Y
Robert E. Hall	Y	Y	Y	Y
Robert Zelnick	Y	Y	Y
Sam Nunn				Y
Sarah Anderson		Y
Seymour Martin Lipset	Y	Y
Shelby Steele		Y
Sidney D. Drell	Y	Y	Y	Y
Stewart A. Baker			Y
Terry L. Anderson	Y	Y	Y	Y
Terry M. Moe	Y	Y	Y	Y
Terry Ryan	Y		Y
Thomas Bethell			Y
Thomas Gale Moore	Y	Y	Y	Y
Timothy Garton Ash	Y	Y	Y	Y
Timothy Kane				Y
William Damon	Y	Y	Y	Y
William J. Perry	Y	Y	Y	Y
Williamson M. Evers	Y	Y	Y	Y
Spencer Abraham		Y
Bruce Berkowitz		Y
Robert J. Myers	Y	Y

Other People

⁴³ExxonSecrets Factsheet: HOOVER INSTITUTION ON WAR, REVOLUTION AND PEACE, STANFORD UNIVERSITY, HOOVER INSTITUTION. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/fVgaS ⁴⁴“S. Fred Singer,” Hoover Institution. Archived April 6, 2016. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/oJwBv

	2004	2016
Donald Rumsfeld	Y
Gale Norton	Y
James M. Poterba	Y
Richard Geddes	Y
S. Fred Singer	Y	Y
Sallie Baliunas	Y

Actions

March 16, 2020

The Hoover Institution’s Richard A. Epstein wrote an article titled “Coronavirus Perspective.” In the article, Epstein estimated deaths from the virus at under 5,000 (he later revised this guess to 50,000) and claimed that “even though self-help measures like avoiding crowded spaces make abundant sense, the massive public controls do not. In light of the available raw data, public officials have gone overboard. To begin with, the word pandemic should not be lightly used.”⁴⁵Richard A. Epstein. “Coronavirus Perspective,” defining ideas (Hoover Institution), March 16, 2020. Archived April 9, 2020. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/4PgbW

It was reported that “Conservatives close to Trump and numerous administration officials have been circulating an article by Richard A. Epstein of the Hoover Institution, titled ‘Coronavirus Perspective,’ which plays down the extent of the spread and the threat.”⁴⁶Isaac Chotiner. “The Contrarian Coronavirus Theory That Informed the Trump Administration,” The New Yorker, March 30, 2020. Archived April 9, 2020. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/A5pSg

In the article, Epstein made the comparison to the standard flu:⁴⁷Isaac Chotiner. “The Contrarian Coronavirus Theory That Informed the Trump Administration,” The New Yorker, March 30, 2020. Archived April 9, 2020. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/A5pSg

“The World Health Organization recently declared coronavirus a pandemic at a time when the death count was at 4,000, presently being just over 6,500. It will surely rise no matter what precautions are taken going forward, but what is critical is some estimate of the rate.⁴⁸Isaac Chotiner. “The Contrarian Coronavirus Theory That Informed the Trump Administration,” The New Yorker, March 30, 2020. Archived April 9, 2020. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/A5pSg

By way of comparison, the toll from the flu in the United States since October ran as follows: between 36 to 51 million infections, between 370 thousand to 670 thousand flu hospitalizations, and between 22 thousand to 55 thousand flu deaths. That works out to between roughly between 230,000 to 320,000 new infections per day, and between 140 to 350 deaths per day for an overall mortality rate of between 0.044 percent to 0.152 percent.”

According to Epstein, “ Good news is more likely than bad, notwithstanding the models that predict otherwise. The deaths in Washington have risen only slowly, even as the number of infections mount. The New York cases have been identified for long enough that they should have produced more deaths if the coronavirus was as dangerous as is commonly believed.”⁴⁹Isaac Chotiner. “The Contrarian Coronavirus Theory That Informed the Trump Administration,” The New Yorker, March 30, 2020. Archived April 9, 2020. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/A5pSg

He added that he believed shutting down public facilities was not called for (Emphasis added):⁵⁰Isaac Chotiner. “The Contrarian Coronavirus Theory That Informed the Trump Administration,” The New Yorker, March 30, 2020. Archived April 9, 2020. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/A5pSg

“Clearly, the impact on elderly and immunocompromised individuals is severe, with nearly 90% of total deaths coming from individuals 60 and over. But these data do not call for shutting down all public and private facilities given the extraordinarily low rates of death in the population under 50. The adaptive responses should reduce the exposures in the high-risk groups, given the tendency for the coronavirus to weaken over time. My own guess is that the percentage of deaths will decline in Korea for the same reasons that they are expected to decline in the United States. It is highly unlikely that there will ever be a repetition of the explosive situation in Wuhan, where air quality is poorer and smoking rates are higher.”⁵¹Isaac Chotiner. “The Contrarian Coronavirus Theory That Informed the Trump Administration,” The New Yorker, March 30, 2020. Archived April 9, 2020. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/A5pSg

On April 6, 2020, after facing what he described as a “torrent of criticism,” Epstein wrote a correction where he described his previous article as having “the single largest unforced intellectual error in my entire academic career, when I included numerical estimates about the possible impact of the coronavirus in terms of life and death. Those estimates were obviously ridiculously too low.”⁵²Richard A. Epstein. “Coronavirus Perspective—Revised,” Hoover Institution, April 6, 2020. Archived April 9, 2020. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/i4vZv

“Unfortunately, those responses detracted from the main purpose of that initial essay, which was to question some of the basic assumptions of the standard model. I regret those mistakes, and of course, I retract them,” Epstein wrote. However, he reiterated: “It is, however, important to stress that those errors were in no way essential to the central point that I made there, and continue to put forward—namely the serious overprojection of cases and deaths found in the New York Times graphic below, and in similar studies that predict tens of millions of coronavirus cases, and upwards of one million deaths.”⁵³Richard A. Epstein. “Coronavirus Perspective—Revised,” Hoover Institution, April 6, 2020. Archived April 9, 2020. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/i4vZv

January 28, 2015

Hoover Institution senior fellows Edward Paul Lazear published an article in the Wall Street Journal (republished in the Hoover Digest ) which suggests that we should adapt to climate change, rather than follow “far-reaching policies to reduce carbon emissions and mitigate climate change” suggested by the Obama administration.⁵⁴Edward Paul Lazear. “Climate Change Realism,” Hoover Digest No 1. (Winter 2015) pp. 74. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/5ETkF ⁵⁵Edward P. Lazear. “The Climate Change Agenda Needs to Adapt to Reality,” The Wall Street Journal, September 2, 2014. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmogBlog. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/ityxl

“Carbon math makes clear that without major effort and a good bit of luck,  we are unlikely to control the growth of emissions enough to meet the standards that many climate scientists suggest are necessary. It is time to end the delusions and start thinking realistically about what can and will be done,” Lazear writes.⁵⁶Edward P. Lazear. “The Climate Change Agenda Needs to Adapt to Reality,” The Wall Street Journal, September 2, 2014. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmogBlog. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/ityxl

December 20, 2014

Jeremy Carl, Research Fellow and Energy Policy Task Force member at the Hoover Institution, writes at CNN:⁵⁷Jeremy Carl. “Why New York is wrong about Fracking,” CNN, December 20, 2014. Archived April 6, 2016. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/TSS8G

“[T]he new ban on hydraulic fracturing in New York has nothing to do with public health or good science. Instead, it’s an anti-scientific, political decision that will harm the country as it panders to far-left environmentalists.”⁵⁸Jeremy Carl. “Why New York is wrong about Fracking,” CNN, December 20, 2014. Archived April 6, 2016. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/TSS8G

New York became the first state to ban Fracking in the U.S. However, Carl says he is “reflexively hostile to deception, especially when undertaken by people who cloak themselves in the mantle of science. And that’s exactly what is happening here.”⁵⁹Jeremy Carl. “Why New York is wrong about Fracking,” CNN, December 20, 2014. Archived April 6, 2016. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/TSS8G

2007

A number of the Hoover Institution’s fellows have been actively skeptical of man-made climate change. Take the example of Thomas Gale Moore who has produced a large number of articles suggesting that global warming may actually be “good for you.”

Here is a PDF capture and summary of Moore’s publication profile, courtesy of Greenpeace. The original web page here.  His papers and presentations include:⁶⁰“Recent Publications and Working Papers:Thomas Gale Moore,” standford.edu. Archived April 6, 2016. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/jwdx2

• “Why Global Warming would be Good for You,” Public Interest, Winter 1995.
• “Global Warming: A Boon to Humans and Other Animals,” Essays in Public Policy, Hoover Institution 1995. This is an exanded version of “Why Global Warming would be Good for You” with footnotes.
• “Testimony before the House Committee on Science,” November 1995 on Global
  Warming.
• “Happiness is a Warm Planet,” Op-ed in The Wall Street Journal, October 7, 1997.
• “A Very Dangerous Treaty,” Op-ed in The Asian Wall Street Journal, December 10, 1997.
• “Testimony before the House Subcommittee on National Economic Growth,
  Natural Resources, and Regulatory Affairs,” The Economics of the Kyoto
  Protocol on April 23, 1998.
• “Health and Amenity Effects of Global Warming,” Published in Economic
  Inquiry, July 1998,471-88. NEW September 23, 1998.
• Thomas Moore also wrote a monthly column in the World Climate Report from June 1996 to August 1998.

Moore’s “Global Warming: A Boon to Humans and Other Animals” (1995) and “In Sickness or in Health: The Kyoto Protocol versus Global Warming” (2000) were both published in the “Hoover Essays in Public Policy.”⁶¹ExxonSecrets Factsheet: HOOVER INSTITUTION ON WAR, REVOLUTION AND PEACE, STANFORD UNIVERSITY, HOOVER INSTITUTION. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/fVgaS

December 1995

The Hoover Institution launched what it called the “Program on American Institutions and Economic Performance.” According to a Greenpeace web capture of the program (PDF), the aims of the project included:⁶²“The Hoover Institution Program on American Institutions and Economic Performance,” (PDF), December 6, 1995. Retrieved from Greenpeace USA. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmogBlog.

Documenting the strengths and weaknesses of the American economy.
Identifying changes in social norms and institutions.
Examining the direct effects of government policies on economic performance.
Investigating the indirect effects of government policies.
In particular, the program will examine the ways in which government policies toward families, schools, and which government policies toward families, schools, and other basic American institutions provide incentives or disincentives for economic growth. Recommending public policy reforms that seek greater prosperity for Americans.

According to the Institution, the study’s findings would “shape public
policy debates well into the next century,” and that to disseminate the program findings they would “employ books, television, videotapes, essays, and editorials to make their work known to policy makers and the public alike.”⁶³“The Hoover Institution Program on American Institutions and Economic Performance,” (PDF), December 6, 1995. Retrieved from Greenpeace USA. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmogBlog.

One of the additional research projects under consideration included a project titled “The Burden of Government Regulation” which would examine the question of “How much do agencies such as the Environmental Protection Agency or the Occupational Safety and Health Administration cost private enterprise? Are there more efficient ways of pursuing their aims?”⁶⁴“The Hoover Institution Program on American Institutions and Economic Performance,” (PDF), December 6, 1995. Retrieved from Greenpeace USA. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmogBlog.

Another of their research projects proposes to search for evidence that “In dealing with problems such as pollution and health care costs, much work in the field of economics suggests that market solutions are far more efficient than government solutions.”⁶⁵“The Hoover Institution Program on American Institutions and Economic Performance,” (PDF), December 6, 1995. Retrieved from Greenpeace USA. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmogBlog.

The individuals participating in this study would all be from the Hoover Institute’s resident and visiting fellows. They would be directed by the advisory board, which at the time included director of the Hoover Institution, John Raisian, Hoover fellows Gary S. Becker and Milton Friedman, and Hoover fellow and former Secretary of State George P. Shultz.⁶⁶“The Hoover Institution Program on American Institutions and Economic Performance,” (PDF), December 6, 1995. Retrieved from Greenpeace USA. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmogBlog.

Hoover Institution Contact & Location

As of June, 2016, the Hoover Institution listed the following contact information in its website:⁶⁷“Contact Information,” Hoover Institution. Archived June 8, 2016. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/ke5Wu

Hoover Institution
434 Galvez Mall
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-6003
650-723-1754

Hoover Institution in Washington
The Johnson Center
1399 New York Avenue NW, Suite 500
Washington, DC 20005
202-760-3200

Related Organizations

Hoover Publications and projects include:

• Hoover Digest
• Uncommon Knowledge
• Defining Ideas
• Policy Review
• China Leadership Monitor
• Educationnext.org
• Hoover Institution Press
• Hoover Daily Report
• Talk of the Tower
• Advancing a Free Society

Social Media

• @HooverInst on Twitter.
• “Hoover Institution” on Facebook.
• “The Hoover Institution, Stanford University” on LinkedIn.

Other Resources

• “Hoover Institution,” Wikipedia.
• “Hoover Institution,” Right Web, January 30, 2012.

Resources

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  “Mission Statement,” Hoover Institution Stanford University. Archived April 5, 2016. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/p4UGy
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  Cited in Paul Dixon, (1971) Think Tanks, New York: Atheneum, p. 304.
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  George H. Nash. Herbert Hoover and Stanford University. Hoover Press Publication, 1988. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/CTzTe
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  Thomas F. Stephenson. “A More Balanced Approach to Climate Change Policy” (PDF), Hoover Institution, 2014. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmogBlog.
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  Terry Anderson. “Hot Air on Climate Change,” Defining Ideas (Hoover Institution Journal), June 12, 2014. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmogBlog. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/ZxT1R
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  “Former U.S. Central Command Chief General John Abizaid Appointed Hoover Distinguished Visiting Fellow” (Press Release), Hoover Institution Stanford University, May 7, 2007. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/4CejY
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  “Board of Overseers,” Hoover Institution. Archived November 2, 2012. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmogBlog. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/4CejY
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  “Board of Overseers,” Hoover Institution. Archived November 2, 2012. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmogBlog. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/4CejY
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  “Board of Overseers,” Hoover Institution. Archived April 5, 2016. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmogBlog. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/o0ucL
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  “National Security Affairs Fellows,” Hoover Institution. Archived September 13, 2007.  Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/6WKtw
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  “Senior Research Fellows,” Hoover Institution. Archived September 16, 2007.  Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/p1nKm
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  “W. GLENN CAMPBELL AND RITA RICARDO–CAMPBELL NATIONAL FELLOWS,” Hoover Institution. Archived October 29, 2007.  Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/MhwZt
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  “Distinguished Fellow,” Hoover Institution. Archived September 13, 2007. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/Y2FfX
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  “Honorary Fellows,” Hoover Institution. Archived September 16, 2007. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/eZjuI
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  “2010 Report: Fellows,” Hoover Institution. Archived October 21, 2012. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmogblog. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/SQd7Z
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  “S. Fred Singer,” Hoover Institution. Archived April 6, 2016. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/oJwBv
• 45
  Richard A. Epstein. “Coronavirus Perspective,” defining ideas (Hoover Institution), March 16, 2020. Archived April 9, 2020. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/4PgbW
• 46
  Isaac Chotiner. “The Contrarian Coronavirus Theory That Informed the Trump Administration,” The New Yorker, March 30, 2020. Archived April 9, 2020. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/A5pSg
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  Isaac Chotiner. “The Contrarian Coronavirus Theory That Informed the Trump Administration,” The New Yorker, March 30, 2020. Archived April 9, 2020. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/A5pSg
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  Isaac Chotiner. “The Contrarian Coronavirus Theory That Informed the Trump Administration,” The New Yorker, March 30, 2020. Archived April 9, 2020. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/A5pSg
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  Isaac Chotiner. “The Contrarian Coronavirus Theory That Informed the Trump Administration,” The New Yorker, March 30, 2020. Archived April 9, 2020. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/A5pSg
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  Isaac Chotiner. “The Contrarian Coronavirus Theory That Informed the Trump Administration,” The New Yorker, March 30, 2020. Archived April 9, 2020. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/A5pSg
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  Isaac Chotiner. “The Contrarian Coronavirus Theory That Informed the Trump Administration,” The New Yorker, March 30, 2020. Archived April 9, 2020. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/A5pSg
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  Richard A. Epstein. “Coronavirus Perspective—Revised,” Hoover Institution, April 6, 2020. Archived April 9, 2020. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/i4vZv
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  Richard A. Epstein. “Coronavirus Perspective—Revised,” Hoover Institution, April 6, 2020. Archived April 9, 2020. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/i4vZv
• 54
  Edward Paul Lazear. “Climate Change Realism,” Hoover Digest No 1. (Winter 2015) pp. 74. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/5ETkF
• 55
  Edward P. Lazear. “The Climate Change Agenda Needs to Adapt to Reality,” The Wall Street Journal, September 2, 2014. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmogBlog. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/ityxl
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  Edward P. Lazear. “The Climate Change Agenda Needs to Adapt to Reality,” The Wall Street Journal, September 2, 2014. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmogBlog. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/ityxl
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  Jeremy Carl. “Why New York is wrong about Fracking,” CNN, December 20, 2014. Archived April 6, 2016. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/TSS8G
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  Jeremy Carl. “Why New York is wrong about Fracking,” CNN, December 20, 2014. Archived April 6, 2016. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/TSS8G
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  Jeremy Carl. “Why New York is wrong about Fracking,” CNN, December 20, 2014. Archived April 6, 2016. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/TSS8G
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  “Recent Publications and Working Papers:Thomas Gale Moore,” standford.edu. Archived April 6, 2016. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/jwdx2
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  “The Hoover Institution Program on American Institutions and Economic Performance,” (PDF), December 6, 1995. Retrieved from Greenpeace USA. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmogBlog.
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  “The Hoover Institution Program on American Institutions and Economic Performance,” (PDF), December 6, 1995. Retrieved from Greenpeace USA. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmogBlog.
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  “The Hoover Institution Program on American Institutions and Economic Performance,” (PDF), December 6, 1995. Retrieved from Greenpeace USA. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmogBlog.
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  “The Hoover Institution Program on American Institutions and Economic Performance,” (PDF), December 6, 1995. Retrieved from Greenpeace USA. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmogBlog.
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  “The Hoover Institution Program on American Institutions and Economic Performance,” (PDF), December 6, 1995. Retrieved from Greenpeace USA. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmogBlog.
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  “Contact Information,” Hoover Institution. Archived June 8, 2016. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/ke5Wu