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Peter Berkowitz

Peter Berkowitz is the Tad and Dianne Taube Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. In 2019 and 2020, he served as Director of Policy Planning at the U.S. State Department. His writings are posted at www.PeterBerkowitz.com.

Latest Content

  1. Observation ·

    Podcast: Peter Berkowitz and Gadi Taub on the Deeper Causes of Israel’s Internal Conflict

    By Peter Berkowitz, Gadi Taub, Tikvah Podcast at Mosaic

    Committed to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.

    Podcast: Peter Berkowitz and Gadi Taub on the Deeper Causes of Israel’s Internal Conflict
  2. Observation ·

    The Clash Within Liberal Democracy: Israel, the United States, and the West

    By Peter Berkowitz

    Committed to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.

    The Clash Within Liberal Democracy: Israel, the United States, and the West
  3. Observation ·

    Podcast: Peter Berkowitz on Connecting Unalienable Rights to Foreign Policy

    By Tikvah Podcast at Mosaic, Peter Berkowitz

    Committed to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.

    Podcast: Peter Berkowitz on Connecting Unalienable Rights to Foreign Policy
  4. Observation ·

    How to Confront a Crisis of Cultural Confidence

    By Peter Berkowitz

    Committed to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.

    How to Confront a Crisis of Cultural Confidence
  5. Observation ·

    Best Books of the Year, as Selected by Mosaic Authors

    By Elliott Abrams, Peter Berkowitz, Daniel Polisar, Neil Rogachevsky, Michael Weingrad, Ruth R. Wisse, David Wolpe

    Committed to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.

    Best Books of the Year, as Selected by Mosaic Authors
  6. Observation ·

    A Balm for the Pathologies of Postmodernism

    By Peter Berkowitz

    Committed to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.

    A Balm for the Pathologies of Postmodernism
  7. Observation ·

    The Illusory Quest for a Vital American Center

    By Peter Berkowitz

    Committed to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.

    The Illusory Quest for a Vital American Center
  8. Response ·

    A Salutary Thesis Overestimates the Bible, and Underestimates Modern Thought

    By Peter Berkowitz

    Despite the manifold threats confronting freedom today, the two major-party nominees in this year’s U.S. presidential campaign have devoted astonishingly few words to its defense. This is alarming not...

    A Salutary Thesis Overestimates the Bible, and Underestimates Modern Thought
  9. Response ·

    The Battle for Religious Liberty Will Be Won on the Field of Education

    By Peter Berkowitz

    The first clause of the first of the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution enshrines religious liberty. The opening words of the Bill of Rights accord this honor to religious liberty...

    The Battle for Religious Liberty Will Be Won on the Field of Education
  10. Observation ·

    What Was Wrong with the Old Zionism?

    By Peter Berkowitz

    Committed to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.

    What Was Wrong with the Old Zionism?
  11. Response ·

    The Nation-State Is Needed Now More Than Ever

    By Peter Berkowitz

    In his introduction to Democracy in America (1835), Alexis de Tocqueville explained that Europeans could learn much about their future from the United States: the place where equality of social rela...

    The Nation-State Is Needed Now More Than Ever
  12. Response ·

    The Long Rise of the Secular Faith

    By Peter Berkowitz

    Bruce Abramson illuminates the dangerous tendency in contemporary American politics and law to supplant respect for the diversity of religious belief with a homogenizing doctrine that punishes the exp...

    The Long Rise of the Secular Faith
  13. Response ·

    How Not to Help the Ultra-Orthodox

    By Peter Berkowitz

    In the short space of 66 years, Israel has established a kind of polity never before seen in the Middle East, a polity that promises all citizens individual freedom and equality before the law. To an...

    How Not to Help the Ultra-Orthodox