The Hoover Institution has expanded its online outreach with Defining Ideas, a journal, and Advancing a Free Society, an information channel.

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The president of the Republic of Chile, Sebastián Piñera and Russian president Dmitry Medvedev visited in 2010.

Commissioner Troy Paredes, of the Securities and Exchange Commission, is seen here speaking to members of the Hoover Institution’s John and Jean De Nault Task Force on Property Rights, Freedom, and Prosperity on Thursday, May 6.

In 2010, the Hoover Institution continued to expand its web-based technologies, including using social networking tools to make its work accessible and connect with its supporters.

Government public finance officials from the United States and Poland, guest speakers at the Hoover Institution, opined on their experiences during financial crises and what they learned from them.

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Former US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice, the Thomas and Barbara Stephenson Senior Fellow on Public Policy at the Hoover Institution, recently published her memoir, Extraordinary, Ordinary People: A Memoir of Family (Crown Archetype, 2010).

Posters from the Hoover Archives’ Political Poster Collection featured in a segment of the PBS series Antiques Roadshow, which aired Monday, May 24.

Thomas Sowell has studied and taught economics, intellectual history, and social policy at institutions that include Cornell University, UCLA, and Amherst College. Now a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Sowell has published more than a dozen books, the latest of which is Dismantling America.

In Nuclear Tipping Point, a film featuring Hoover distinguished fellow George P. Shultz and Henry Kissinger, former US secretaries of state; Hoover senior fellow William Perry, former US secretary of defense; and Sam Nunn, former US senator, the four men share the experiences that led them to write the now famous Wall Street Journal op-eds that describe their efforts to reduce reliance on nuclear weapons, to prevent their spread into potentially dangerous hands, and ,ultimately to end them as a threat to the world.

Hoover fellow John B. Taylor is perhaps best known for formulating an equation on setting interest rates that has become known as the Taylor rule, but the economist has also been recognized throughout his career for his contributions to teaching, research, and public service, in addition to policy making.

Beginning with the assertion that “war is inseparable from the human condition,” Victor Hanson proceeds to explain the ways in which the American way of war is distinctive. For one, “Americans are united…by shared ideas and commitments, such as the ideals of equal opportunity and individual merit….Our military functions…as a reflection of our national meritocracy.”

Throughout 2010, the task forces were extremely productive, publishing numerous works exploring their area of expertise. The Herbert and Jane Dwight Working Group on Islamism and the International Order and the Working Group on Health Care Policy, in particular, contributed many publications this year, as did the Working Group on Economic Policy and the Koret Task Force on K–12 Education. Publications also emanated from the Koret-Taube Task Force on National Security and Law, the Boyd and Jill Smith Task Force on Virtues of a Free Society, and the John and Jean De Nault Task Force on Property Rights, Freedom, and Prosperity.