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2 unusual facts about Hoover Institution


America's Secret Establishment

America's Secret Establishment (ISBN 0-937765-02-3) is a 1986 book by Hoover Institution scholar Antony C. Sutton in which, among other things, he details the business and political network of secret society Skull and Bones and its parent, the Russell Trust Association.

Research Centre for East European Studies

Furthermore international networks exist with institutions in the USA (e.g. Hoover, Harvard and the Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick) and Western Europe (e.g. ETH Zürich, the University of Amsterdam and Cambridge University).


Emil Mosbacher

His numerous other offices included Commodore of the New York Yacht Club, chairman of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, and directorships of Chemical Bank, Chubb, Abercrombie & Fitch, and other companies.

Enviro-Capitalists: Doing Good While Doing Well

Policy Review, published by the Hoover Institution, noted that the book views the growth of enviro-capitalism as a vindication of the views of conservationist Aldo Leopold.

Greg Waldorf

Waldorf remains actively involved at Stanford, where he is a member of the Hoover Institution Board of Overseers, and was a founding member of the Stanford Graduate School of Business Management Board.

Hall–Rabushka flat tax

The Hall–Rabushka flat tax is a fully developed flat tax on consumption designed by American economists Robert Hall and Alvin Rabushka at the Hoover Institution.

In My Time: A Personal and Political Memoir

Military historian Victor Davis Hanson praised the memoir in Defining Ideas, a journal published by the Hoover Institution, and he likened Cheney to the mythical Greek figure Ajax.

Modern Language Association

The president in 2011 was Russell A. Berman (Stanford University and Hoover Institution); the first vice president was Michael Bérubé (Pennsylvania State University), who assumed the MLA presidency in 2012; and the second vice president was Marianne Hirsch (Columbia University), who advanced to first vice president in 2012 and became MLA President in 2013.

Russell Trust Association

The business and political network of the Skull and Bones was detailed by Hoover Institution scholar Antony C. Sutton in the exposé, America's Secret Establishment.

Same-sex marriage and the family

Stanley Kurtz of the Hoover Institution contends that same-sex marriage separates the ideas of marriage and parenthood, thereby accelerating marital decline.

The Frankenfood Myth

The Frankenfood Myth: How Protest and Politics Threaten the Biotech Revolution is a book written by Hoover Institution research fellow Henry I. Miller and political scientist Gregory Conko and published by Praeger Publishers published in 2004.


see also

Bueno de Mesquita

Bruce Bueno de Mesquita - a political scientist, professor at New York University, and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution