Posted on December 29, 1999 in Precepts
Bill Clinton and Mrs. Albright have one and only one method of operation in international relations, and Israel should beware.
Posted on December 17, 1999 in Writings
Our fellows take a close look at Wisconsin and Minnesota and find the best and worst of welfare reform.
Posted on December 17, 1999 in Writings
Fidel Castro's regime is vulnerable as never before. It's about time, writes Publius Fellow Roman Martinez.
Posted on December 12, 1999 in Writings
A number of policy analysts and scholars have raised the specter of a growing gap between the U.S. military and the society it is sworn to protect. Our Adjunct Fellow takes a closer look.
Posted on December 9, 1999 in Writings
Posted on December 9, 1999 in Precepts
Posted on December 1, 1999 in Precepts
Convergence is not a fact on the horizon but a contrivance of human vanity, writes Mark Helprin.
Posted on November 30, 1999 in Writings
Posted on November 24, 1999 in Precepts
Unless American students receive an education in the fundamental principles of a free society, freedom will not survive.
Posted on November 23, 1999 in Writings
Posted on November 19, 1999 in Precepts
Senior fellow Patrick Garrity reviews
The Passing of an Illusion by Francois Furet.
Posted on November 12, 1999 in Writings
When is a human being a human being? Posing the question only produces anger and incoherence on the part of Barbara Boxer and others on the Left, writes adjunct fellow Hadley Arkes.
Posted on November 12, 1999 in Writings
Many doctors have made themselves victims of perplexities from which a single spark of direct perception might have spared them, writes adjunct fellow Hadley Arkes.
Posted on November 3, 1999 in Writings
With Edward C. Banfield's death at 83, conservatism lost a profound student of American politics, one of the most influential social scientists of the age, and a discerning critic of liberal optimism and self-congratulation, writes senior fellow Charles Kesler.
Posted on October 28, 1999 in Writings
November 9, 1999 will mark ten years since the fall of the Berlin Wall, a triumph of Ronald Reagan's foreign policy. Senior fellow Charles Kesler offers these reflections.
Posted on October 20, 1999 in Writings
Posted on October 1, 1999 in Writings
Senior fellow Edward Erler examines the American Founders' understanding of the right to property and the recent property rights case law.
Posted on September 27, 1999 in Writings
Politicians make a big deal about the "illegal weapons" for sale at gun shows. But there is less to these claims than meets the eye, writes Ben Boychuk.
Posted on August 30, 1999 in Writings
Posted on August 30, 1999 in Writings
The recent New Jersey Supreme Court decision was a blow to the Boy Scouts, but victory is still possible, writes Larry Arnn.
Posted on August 25, 1999 in Writings
Senior fellow Charles Kesler writes: Clare Boothe Luce once observed that in the popular memory a president gets a single sentence. What will be Bill Clinton's sentence?
Posted on August 13, 1999 in Writings
With the recent decision by the New Jersey Supreme Court, we face the very real prospect of the death of scouting as it has been practiced for almost a century, writes Larry Arnn.
Posted on August 5, 1999 in Writings
Gov. Gray Davis has been wrong about Proposition 209, California's voter-approved constitutional amendment that outlawed race- and gender-based preferences and discrimination. But last week, Davis took a strong step to uphold the constitution. For that, Davis deserves our thanks, writes Larry Arnn.
Posted on August 4, 1999 in Writings
Most Americans know the income tax is expensive, intrusive, and highly politicized. Not so well known, perhaps, is that this was intentional.
Posted on July 23, 1999 in Writings
Thomas Jefferson was born on April 13, 1743. We honor him not just as the author of the Declaration of Independence, but as one of the great statesman and political prognosticators of the American Founding.
Posted on July 22, 1999 in Writings
Posted on July 19, 1999 in Writings
Rep. Loretta Sanchez, D-Calif., recently called education a "national security" issue. The solution, according to her: More Washington bureaucracy.
Posted on July 15, 1999 in Writings
First Amendment absolutists in Congress opposed the recently defeated non-binding resolution calling for a national day of prayer. But prayer is as old as the Republic itself.
Posted on July 9, 1999 in Writings
The standard of the Declaration of Independence is one every American must learn and know if we wish to remain a free people.
Posted on July 6, 1999 in Writings
Lawmakers and educators who wave off the principles of the Declaration out of a concern for fairness and freedom reject the only ground that supports fairness and freedom.
Posted on July 4, 1999 in Writings
Is it a good idea for students to recite from the Declaration of Independence in class? Some New Jersey state lawmakers don't think so.
Posted on July 2, 1999 in Writings
The results in Kosovo suggest that in the Age of Clinton, victory ain't what it used to be.
Posted on June 25, 1999 in Writings
The national security crisis exposed by the Cox Report demands immediate attention, not Clinton administration games.
Posted on May 24, 1999 in Writings
We must re-establish a proper understanding of the relation of biblical morality to government and of the proper, desirable role of religion in the public square.
Posted on May 22, 1999 in Writings
Posted on May 16, 1999 in Writings
The appeal of the original trilogy is not special effects but the movies' rejection of the doctrine of moral equivalence.
Posted on May 13, 1999 in Writings
Instead of adding to the list of current gun laws, perhaps we should try something novel: enforcing the laws we already have.
Posted on April 29, 1999 in Writings
The real solution to the shootings in Littleton is far more complicated than banning trench coats, which the Denver schools have done.
Posted on April 27, 1999 in Writings
When today's students are taught that the study of politics is nothing more than the boring survey of facts and information, we shouldn't be surprised that they are not interested in studying it.
Posted on April 24, 1999 in Writings
In protecting "small markets," big league baseball is talking the entitlement language of the bureaucratic governments that subsidize it. What baseball really needs is more competition.
Posted on April 13, 1999 in Writings
If Paul Weyrich hopes to make the majority moral again, he must not give up on politics, but instead present a reasoned case to the American people.
Posted on April 1, 1999 in Writings
It is the responsibility of the politicians who send young men to war to make sure they have a good plan for winning. We lack such a plan today in Yugoslavia.
Posted on March 26, 1999 in Writings
Bill Clinton's flawed foreign policy might ultimately strengthen our potential adversaries.
Posted on March 26, 1999 in Writings
Welfare dependency is falling. So why are some bureaucrats and politicians contemplating measures to reverse the trend?
Posted on March 25, 1999 in Writings
With all due respect to Paul Weyrich, his defeatist strategy will only lead to disaster for conservatives and the country.
Posted on March 16, 1999 in Writings
Posted on March 9, 1999 in Writings
Baseball requires an uneasy combination of individual excellence and selfless teamwork. Senior Fellow Doug Jeffrey remembers Joe DiMaggio.
Posted on March 5, 1999 in Writings
Senor fellow Thomas G. West reviews
The Lustre of Our Country: The American Experience of Religious Freedom, by John T. Noonan, Jr.
Posted on March 1, 1999 in Writings
The author forced himself to watch the NBC mini-series "The Sixties" in February, and he was reminded once again that a "culture war" rages today for the soul of America.
Posted on February 26, 1999 in Writings
The independent counsel statute, which brought us Judge Lawrence Walsh and Judge Kenneth Starr expires June 30. Good riddance.
Posted on February 22, 1999 in Writings
California's welfare laws should incorporate the kind of tough sanctions that have proved so successful in reducing welfare dependency in other states.
Posted on February 21, 1999 in Writings
Posted on February 17, 1999 in Writings
There is plenty to criticize in the recent NBC mini-series "The Sixties." But the worst aspect of this dreadful contribution to the popular culture is the fact that it slanders an entire generation of fighting men.
Posted on February 13, 1999 in Writings
In nothing is the alienation from the principles of the Founding — of conservatives no less than of liberals — shown more clearly than in the debate between the advocates of a "living Constitution" and the advocates of a jurisprudence of "original intent," writes distinguished fellow Harry V. Jaffa.
Posted on February 9, 1999 in Writings
What sort of man would have the sight to see the limits on the government and the courage to stand up for them? Justice Clarence Thomas.
Posted on February 9, 1999 in Writings
"We should learn from Abraham Lincoln and from Professor Harry V. Jaffa, but learn what? Slavery is no longer with us. Yet, as we stand on the threshold of the 21st Century, many of our fellow citizens have forgotten — or rather, our modern world has rejected — 'the laws of Nature and Nature's God.'"
Posted on February 9, 1999 in Writings
Is partisanship always bad? American history teaches otherwise.
Posted on January 7, 1999 in Writings
President Clinton has undermined the moral authority of commanders at all levels, ultimately making it more difficult for them to carry out this very difficult compromise.
Posted on January 4, 1999 in Writings
