Steven F. Hayward

Steven F. Hayward (born October 16, 1958) is an American conservative author, political commentator, and policy scholar. He is a senior resident scholar at the Institute of Governmental Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and a visiting lecturer at the UC Berkeley School of Law.

Hayward was previously the Ronald Reagan Distinguished Visiting Professor at Pepperdine University's Graduate School of Public Policy, and was the inaugural visiting scholar in conservative thought and policy at the

From 2002 to 2012, he was the F.K Weyerhaeuser Fellow in Law and Economics at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C., and has been senior fellow at the Pacific Research Institute in San Francisco since 1991.^[2][3][4][5]

Early life and education

Hayward was born in 1958. In 1980, he earned a

• Intercollegiate Studies Institute – Weaver Fellow (1985–86)^[2]
• Ashland University – Distinguished Fellow at John M. Ashbrook Center^{[6][2][3][9][4]}
• Mont Pelerin Society – Olive Garvey Fellow (1990, 1992)^[2]
• Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy – senior fellow (1991–Present)^{[10][11][3][4][5]}
• The Heritage Foundation – Fellow (1993–1994, 1997–1998)^[2][11]
• American Enterprise Institute – Fellow (2002–2012?)^{[2][11][3][4][5]}
• Georgetown University – visiting lecturer in the Government Department (2003–Present)^[11][3]
• The Fund for American Studies – inaugural visiting scholar (2013–2014)^[12]
• University of Colorado Boulder – First Visiting Scholar in Conservative Thought and Policy (2013–2014)^[10][11]
• Pepperdine University as Visiting Ronald Reagan Professor of Public Policy (2014–2014)^[10][3]
• Boalt Hall^[10][4]

For more than a decade, he has directed the Ashbrook Center's new program in political economy at Ashland University.[6]^[14]

He often hosts for William Bennett's radio show Morning in America on the broadcasting network of Salem Media Group.^{[6][14][3][4]}

Views

Environment and global warming

Hayward has said, "we talk as though the earth is so fragile that, you know, we're endlessly insulting it in its doom." He has also said that "environmental concern rightly understood as now a settled middle class value in wealthy countries and will become more so in other countries around the world as they prosper and that's a key point." He supports the idea of an

He created and starred in the documentary An Inconvenient Truth...Or Convenient Fiction?, a rebuttal of many of the claims in Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth, saying that while Gore is right about many things, he goes too far in predictions of doom.^[19] In 1994, he has co-authored an annual Index of Leading Environmental Indicators (1996–2008), published by the Pacific Research Institute, issued each Earth Day.^[2][9]

Ronald Reagan

In his books about Reagan, Hayward argued that Reagan had the important

• Philadelphia Society^[24][25]
• National Tax Limitation Committee^[24][26]
• Interfaith Stewardship Alliance^[24]
• Center of the American Experiment^[24]
• Donors Trust^[24][27]

Writings

Articles written by Hayward appeared in The Weekly Standard starting in 2001^[28] and in National Review-related publications since 2002. He has also published writings in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Policy Review, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Daily News, County Reporter, The San Diego Union-Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, The Sacramento Bee, The Washington Times, The Columbus Dispatch, The Plain Dealer (Cleveland, Ohio), and The Kansas City Star.^[29]

He is the author of a two-volume biography of Ronald Reagan (The Age of Reagan, 1964–1980: The Fall of the Old Liberal Order (

• Churchill on Leadership: Executive Success in the Face of Adversity (
  Crown Forum
  , 1998)
• The Age of Reagan: The Fall of the Old Liberal Order, 1964–1980 (Prima Publishing, Forum, 2001)
• The Real Jimmy Carter: How Our Worst Ex-President Undermines American Foreign Policy, Coddles Dictators and Created the Party of Clinton and Kerry (Regnery Publishing, 2004)
• Greatness: Reagan, Churchill, and the Making of Extraordinary Leaders (Crown Forum, 2005)
• The Age of Reagan: The Conservative Counterrevolution: 1980–1989 (
  Crown Forum
  , 2010)
• Mere Environmentalism: A Biblical Perspective on Humans and the Natural World (Values and Capitalism) (
  AEI Press
  , 2010)
• The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Presidents: From Wilson to Obama (Politically Incorrect Guides) (Regnery Publishing, 2012)
• Patriotism Is Not Enough: Harry Jaffa, Walter Berns, and the Arguments that Redefined American Conservatism (Encounter Books, 2017)

See also

• List of American Enterprise Institute scholars and fellows
• An Inconvenient Truth...Or Convenient Fiction?

Notes

References

External links

• Steven F. Hayward at Powerline
• Appearances on C-SPAN