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Boyd and Jill Smith Task Force on Virtues of a Free Society: Op-eds and Articles

May 21, 2012 | Weekly Standard
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The Once and Future Liberal

by Tod Lindberg (Research Fellow and member of the Virtues of a Free Society Task Force)
Obama runs as the progressive that he is...
May 7, 2012 | Wall Street Journal
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Why Colleges Don't Teach the Federalist Papers

by 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 24, 2012 | Weekly Standard
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The Businessman vs. the Professor

by 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
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What's a 'Fair' Tax for the Mega Millionaires?

by Brian J. Gaines (W. Glenn Campbell and Rita Ricardo-Campbell National Fellow, 2011–12) and Douglas Rivers (Senior Fellow)
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...
March 30, 2012 | Policy Review
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Reconsidering the Arab Spring

by 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 The Arab Awakening: America and the Transformation of the Middle East by Kenneth M. Pollack, et al...
March 31, 2012 | Wall Street Journal
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How California's Colleges Indoctrinate Students

by Peter Berkowitz (Tad and Dianne Taube Senior Fellow; Chair, National Security and Law Task Force; and Cochair, Virtues of a Free Society Task Force)
A new report on the UC system documents the plague of politicized classrooms. The problem is national in scope...
April 2, 2012 | Weekly Standard
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A Model Intervention

by Tod Lindberg (Research Fellow and member of the Virtues of a Free Society Task Force)
Has the Libya precedent paralyzed the Obama ­administration on Syria?...
March 14, 2012 | Defining Ideas (Hoover Institution)
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Democracy Without Politics?

by Harvey C. Mansfield (Carol G. Simon Senior Fellow and member of the Task Force on Virtues of a Free Society)
America thrives on an openness that has its limits...
March 11, 2012 | Real Clear Politics
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A Misreading of Law and History on Preemptive Strikes

by Peter Berkowitz (Tad and Dianne Taube Senior Fellow; Chair, National Security and Law Task Force; and Cochair, Virtues of a Free Society Task Force)
Liberalism these days seems to encourage an illiberal and anti-democratic tendency to turn hard questions of morality and politics into easy questions of law...
March 2, 2012 | Real Clear Politics
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Would a Military Strike Against Iran Be Legal?

by Peter Berkowitz (Tad and Dianne Taube Senior Fellow; Chair, National Security and Law Task Force; and Cochair, Virtues of a Free Society Task Force)
Having the law on their side as they grapple with the momentous decision is for [Israel and Iran] -- the leaders and the people -- a strategic and political asset...