HOOVER INSTITUTION'S
Boyd and Jill Smith Task Force on Virtues of a Free Society

The Virtues of a Free Society Task Force examines the evolution of America’s core values, how they are threatened, and what can be done to preserve them. The task force’s aims are to identify the enduring virtues and values on which liberty depends; chart the changes in how Americans have practiced virtues and values over the course of our nation’s history; assess the ability of contemporary associations and institutions—particularly schools, family, and religion—to sustain the necessary virtues; and discuss how society might nurture the virtues and values on which its liberty depends.

Peter Berkowitz and David Brady serve as cochairs of the Task Force on the Virtues of a Free Society.

Top row, left to right: Diana Schaub, David Brady, Gerard V. Bradley, James Ceaser, Clifford Orwin. Bottom row, left to right: Robert P. George, Peter Berkowitz, Harvey C. Mansfield, Russell Muirhead. Not shown: William Damon and Tod Lindberg Photo by Stanford Visual Art Services.

Robert George, Princeton's McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and member of the Hoover Institution's Virtues Task Force, received the Presidential Citizens Medal at a ceremony at the White House on Dec. 10