Significant gifts for the support of this task force are acknowledged from
- Boyd and Jill Smith
- William E. Simon Foundation
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.
Featured Commentary and News
February 10, 2012 | Defining Ideas (Hoover Institution)
What does being a good citizen require...?
February 8, 2012 | Advancing a Free Society
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Eryn Witcher (Bechtel Director of Public Affairs)
David Brady (Deputy Director; Davies Family Senior Fellow; and cochair, Virtues of a Free Society Task Force);
Morris P. Fiorina (Senior Fellow); and
Tammy Frisby (Research Fellow) are interviewed
In part 1 shown here, Brady, Fiorina, and Frisby discuss the question dominating this Republican primary season...
February 8, 2012 | Advancing a Free Society
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Eryn Witcher (Bechtel Director of Public Affairs)
David Brady (Deputy Director; Davies Family Senior Fellow; and cochair, Virtues of a Free Society Task Force);
Morris P. Fiorina (Senior Fellow); and
Tammy Frisby (Research Fellow) are interviewed
This is part 3 of 3, looking at races for the House and Senate...
February 7, 2012 | Wall Street Journal
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Robert P. George (Senior Fellow and member of the Task Force on Virtues of a Free Society) and
O. Carter Snead
The abortion provider uses a vast media and political network to maintain its subsidies from government and private charities...
February 4, 2012 | Wall Street Journal
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Peter Berkowitz (Tad and Dianne Taube Senior Fellow; Chair, National Security and Law Task Force; and Cochair, Virtues of a Free Society Task Force)
The university has tarnished a student's reputation, and its own...
February 1, 2012 | Policy Review
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Peter Berkowitz (Tad and Dianne Taube Senior Fellow; Chair, National Security and Law Task Force; and Cochair, Virtues of a Free Society Task Force)
Peter Berkowitz on Justice and the Enemy: From the Nuremberg Trials to Khalid Sheikh Muhammad by William Shawcross...
January 20, 2012 | John Williams Show (WGN)
Tod Lindberg (Research Fellow and member of the Virtues of a Free Society Task Force) is interviewed
Mitt Romney's latest slip up was revealing that the $374,328 he makes from speaking in one year is pocket change. Tod Lindberg, Columnist for the Weekly Standard, joins the show to elaborate...
January 23, 2012 | Baltimore Sun
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Diana Schaub (member of the Task Force on Virtues of a Free Society)
City's rate of terminated pregnancies is indicative of a wayward society...
January 23, 2012 | Weekly Standard
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Tod Lindberg (Research Fellow and member of the Virtues of a Free Society Task Force)
Could inflict considerable pain...
January 10, 2012 | Daily Wrap (Wall Street Journal Radio Network)
David Brady (Deputy Director; Davies Family Senior Fellow; and cochair, Virtues of a Free Society Task Force) is interviewed
Mitt Romney takes the New Hampshire primary; a look at where the independent votes could go; a look at the Super PAC's shaping this race and why more businesses are enjoying a tax-free lifestyle... (Interview begins around 09:10)
