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Hoover Daily Report by topic: America's Founding

August 18, 2009 | Uncommon Knowledge

Lincoln & More with Harry Jaffa, Part II: Chapter 2 of 5

Can democracy survive if it abandons its Judeo-Christian roots?...

August 6, 2009 | National Review

A Constitutional Moment for American Education?

Vacation gave me the opportunity to catch up with a bit of early American history, particularly the eventful last two decades of the 18th century...

July 30, 2009 | Freedom Communications

Individualism root of revolution

The idea that sound revolutions rest on the past may appear to be an oxymoron, but it isn’t...

July 17, 2009 | Forbes

Harry Jaffa's Affair With The Lincoln-Douglas Debates

One day in 1946, Harry Jaffa wandered into a used bookstore in Manhattan and picked up a copy of the Lincoln-Douglas debates...

July 13, 2009 | Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription required)

Private Effort to Create Courses Draws Praise — and Charges of 'Buying' Curricula

On a humid day in June, a few dozen young historians and political scientists have gathered in a sunlit, high-ceilinged, book-lined seminar room along the University of Virginia's central quadrangle...

June 22, 2009 | Weekly Standard (subscription required)

Consequential Ideas

Paul Rahe is a distinguished and prolific historian in the field of intellectual history who ventures with deliberate intent into political philosophy, judging what he sees...

May 22, 2009 | Freedom Communications

Conservatism is not same thing as libertarianism

The other day I was awoken from my occasional complacency and shocked to be told that Glenn Beck, Fox TV's most recent addition of conservative commentators, has been calling himself a libertarian...

May 13, 2009 | Wall Street Journal

Chrysler and the Rule of Law

The rule of law, not of men -- an ideal tracing back to the ancient Greeks and well-known to our Founding Fathers -- is the animating principle of the American experiment...

April 24, 2009 | Freedom Communications

Democracy in free society not about majority

If you object to having your liberty and property taken by the majority, be prepared for some political theorists to reject your opposition...

April 17, 2009 | Forbes

A Modern-Day George III?

At the "tea party protests" that took place on Wednesday, hundreds of thousands of Americans took to the streets and asserted an outrageous claim...