The Shoe Finally Drops at Stanford
Hoover Institution gets $10 million gift
The Hoover Institution at Stanford University has received a $10 million gift from the Annenberg Foundation to establish a fund to study public policy development in economics, national security and foreign policy by Hoover scholars.
"The Hoover Institution is deeply interested in generating 'ideas defining a free society' -- indeed it is guiding principle within our mission," Hoover Director John Raisian said. "Funds from this magnificent and imaginative endowment will spawn such creative ideas that are especially new, sweeping and undeveloped. The Annenberg Strategic Initiative will allow scholars a means for taking intellectual risks in addressing new areas of inquiry with new approaches pertaining to important issues of the day."
As an example, a new Stanford project is exploring the possibility of a world free of nuclear weapons. Hoover Fellows Sydney Drell, a physicist and nuclear weapons expert, and former Secretary of State George Shultz l…