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
May 21, 2012 | Advancing a Free Society
David Brady (Deputy Director; Davies Family Senior Fellow; (Acting) Director of Library and Archives; and cochair, Virtues of a Free Society Task Force);
Morris P. Fiorina (Senior Fellow); and
Tammy Frisby (Research Fellow) are interviewed
In this podcast, three of Hoover’s political scholars, David Brady, Morris Fiorina, and Tammy Frisby, discuss the two weeks down and the six months to go in the General election...
May 14, 2012 | Advancing a Free Society
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James W. Ceaser (senior fellow and member of the Task Force on Virtues of a Free Society)
The President steadfastly disavows any intent to foment division between economic classes, even as he works at every step to denounce the wealthy...
May 21, 2012 | Weekly Standard
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Tod Lindberg (Research Fellow and member of the Virtues of a Free Society Task Force)
Obama runs as the progressive that he is...
May 11, 2012 | John Batchelor Show
Peter Berkowitz (Tad and Dianne Taube Senior Fellow; Chair, National Security and Law Task Force; and Cochair, Virtues of a Free Society Task Force) and
Tunku Varadarajan (Virginia Hobbs Carpenter Fellow in Journalism) are interviewed
Guests: McKay Coppins, Buzzfeed; Gordon Chang, Forbes; Tunku Varadarajan, Newsweek International; Peter Berkowitz, Hoover...
May 7, 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)
At America's top schools, graduates leave without reading our most basic writings on the purpose of constitutional self-government...
April 27, 2012 | John Batchelor Show
Terry Anderson (John and Jean De Nault Senior Fellow and Cochair, Property Rights, Freedom, and Prosperity Task Force);
Peter Berkowitz (Tad and Dianne Taube Senior Fellow; Chair, National Security and Law Task Force; and Cochair, Virtues of a Free Society Task Force); and
Henry I. Miller (Robert Wesson Fellow in Scientific Philosophy and Public Policy) are interviewed
Guests: Co-Host Mary Kissel, WSJ; Terry Anderson, PERC; Susan Berfield, Bloomberg; Henry Miller, Hoover; Peter Berkowitz, Hoover...
April 24, 2012 | Weekly Standard
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James W. Ceaser (senior fellow and member of the Task Force on Virtues of a Free Society)
The personal dimension of the Romney-Obama face off...
April 11, 2012 | Wall Street Journal
Polls say Americans want higher rates on the rich. But when one poll asked how much lottery winners should pay, over half said 10% or less...
April 8, 2012 | Advancing a Free Society
David Brady (Deputy Director; Davies Family Senior Fellow; (Acting) Director of Library and Archives; and cochair, Virtues of a Free Society Task Force);
Tammy Frisby (Research Fellow); and
Bill Whalen (Research Fellow) are interviewed
In this podcast from the Hoover Institution’s 2012 In Perspective series, three of Hoover’s political scholars and analysts, David Brady, Tammy Frisby, and Bill Whalen, discuss the politics of the presidential race now that roughly half the delegates have been awarded...
April 5, 2012 | John Batchelor Show
Tod Lindberg (Research Fellow and member of the Virtues of a Free Society Task Force) is interviewed
Guests: Co-Host Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents; Moshen Sazegara; Hassan Shariatmadari; John Bolton, AEI; Tod Lindberg, Hoover...
