Defining Ideas by topic: Politics: United States

August 9, 2012
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In Praise of Polarization

by Bruce Thornton (Research Fellow and W. Glenn Campbell and Rita Ricardo-Campbell National Fellow, 2009–10, 2010–11)
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Bipartisan compromise is deeply over-rated.
August 1, 2012
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The Foreign Policy of David Axelrod

by Fouad Ajami (Senior Fellow and cochair, Working Group on Islamism and the International Order)
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In the Obama administration, politics trumps grand strategy.
July 2, 2012
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The Brewing Crisis in Science

by Henry I. Miller (Robert Wesson Fellow in Scientific Philosophy and Public Policy)
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Federal agencies are funding research on baby-naming and meditation rather than the field’s Next Big Thing.
June 19, 2012
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Psychology vs. Public Policy

by Richard A. Epstein (Peter and Kirsten Bedford Senior Fellow and member of the Property Rights, Freedom, and Prosperity Task Force)
Why do moral intuitions break down in complex social institutions?
June 14, 2012
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Why We Can't All Just Get Along

by William Damon (Senior Fellow and member of the Virtues of a Free Society Task Force)
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A review of Jonathan Haidt’s The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion.
May 11, 2012
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How Not to Cure Chronic Diseases

by Henry I. Miller (Robert Wesson Fellow in Scientific Philosophy and Public Policy)
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Have Congress pass costly legislation that fails to address the problem it’s trying to solve.
February 24, 2012
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The Dark Side of the Payroll Tax Cut

by Charles Blahous (Research Fellow)
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The left wants to bail out Social Security with income redistribution.
February 22, 2012
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“Nature Fakery”

by Bruce Thornton (Research Fellow and W. Glenn Campbell and Rita Ricardo-Campbell National Fellow, 2009–10, 2010–11)
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The vogue of environmentalism stems from two ancient myths disguised today by a thin veil of scientific authority.
February 20, 2012
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The Oil Market Panic

by Richard A. Epstein (Peter and Kirsten Bedford Senior Fellow and member of the Property Rights, Freedom, and Prosperity Task Force)
Politicians on both sides of the aisle must embrace the principle of laissez-faire.
February 17, 2012
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The Father of the Green Revolution

by Henry I. Miller (Robert Wesson Fellow in Scientific Philosophy and Public Policy)
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How agronomist Norman Borlaug fed and saved the world.