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 University of Colorado at Boulder. In 2023, he returned to Pepperdine to serve as the Edward L. Gaylord Visiting Professor of Public Policy at the Pepperdine University School of Public Policy.

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.

Early life and education Hayward was born in 1958. In 1980, he graduated with a Bachelor of Science in business from Lewis and Clark College. He then received an M.A. in government in 1984 and a Ph.D. in American studies in 1986, both from the Claremont Graduate School. Hayward has testified before the Committee on Energy and Commerce at the United States House on two occasions. University of Colorado Boulder – First Visiting Scholar in Conservative Thought and Policy (2013–2014) In January 2011, Hayward began writing for the political/general-interest blog Power Line. and labeled climate scientists analysts fearful of change as "climateers," "climatistas," "alarmists," and the "environmental Politburo." He has advocated that the world engage in geoengineering projects to mitigate global warming, such as spraying saltwater in the air to increase cloud cover over the oceans and thus reflect back sunlight. He advocates that the U.S. build more nuclear power plants as another necessary solution.

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. 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.

Hayward is or has been a member of the: Philadelphia Society National Tax Limitation Committee Interfaith Stewardship Alliance

Writings Articles written by Hayward appeared in The Weekly Standard starting in 2001 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.

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 in 2001 and The Age of Reagan: The Conservative Counterrevolution: 1980–1989 in 2009), which received favorable reviews. Churchill on Leadership: Executive Success in the Face of Adversity (Prima, 1997) (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) M. Stanton Evans: Conservative Wit, Apostle of Freedom (Encounter Books, 2022)