Defining Ideas by topic: Politics: United States

October 19, 2012
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Is Mitt Romney Likable Enough?

by Morris P. Fiorina (Senior Fellow)
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Despite what the chattering classes say, likability plays a minor role in deciding modern presidential elections.
October 16, 2012
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The New Yorker’s Closet Libertarian

by Richard A. Epstein (Peter and Kirsten Bedford Senior Fellow and member of the Property Rights, Freedom, and Prosperity Task Force)
James Surowiecki’s attack on “Corporate Welfare Queens” is like something out of Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations.
October 10, 2012
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Obama's Death by Jobs

by Henry I. Miller (Robert Wesson Fellow in Scientific Philosophy and Public Policy)
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Everything you wanted to know about killing jobs, but were too afraid to ask.
October 2, 2012
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David Brooks, You're Wrong.

by Richard A. Epstein (Peter and Kirsten Bedford Senior Fellow and member of the Property Rights, Freedom, and Prosperity Task Force)
Government, not the market, poses the largest threat to human flourishing.
September 25, 2012
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How to Stymie the Teachers Unions

by Richard A. Epstein (Peter and Kirsten Bedford Senior Fellow and member of the Property Rights, Freedom, and Prosperity Task Force)
Want to prevent another Chicago? Let charter schools flourish.
September 19, 2012
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One Nation, Under God?

by Bruce Thornton (Research Fellow and W. Glenn Campbell and Rita Ricardo-Campbell National Fellow, 2009–10, 2010–11)
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The decline of religion in the United States has troubling consequences for public life.
September 11, 2012
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The Preacher-in-Chief

by Richard A. Epstein (Peter and Kirsten Bedford Senior Fellow and member of the Property Rights, Freedom, and Prosperity Task Force)
The president’s DNC speech was long on rhetoric and short on coherent policy.
August 30, 2012
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Are You Smarter Than a Freshman?

by Harvey C. Mansfield (Carol G. Simon Senior Fellow and member of the Task Force on Virtues of a Free Society)
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What political philosophy has to say about elections.
August 28, 2012
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Paul Ryan’s Intellectual Muse

by Richard A. Epstein (Peter and Kirsten Bedford Senior Fellow and member of the Property Rights, Freedom, and Prosperity Task Force)
The wisdom of Hayek is exactly what this country needs right now.
August 21, 2012
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Franklin Delano Obama

by Richard A. Epstein (Peter and Kirsten Bedford Senior Fellow and member of the Property Rights, Freedom, and Prosperity Task Force)
Will the New Deal revive itself in 2012?