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

January 15, 2009

Since when is TV a need?

Diana Schaub

Since 1994, we have had National TV Turn−Off Week every April...

January 2, 2009 | Wall Street Journal (subscription required)

Conservatives Can Unite Around the Constitution

After their dismal performance in November, conservatives are taking stock...

January 1, 2009

Relativism as political absolutism

On the dangers of relativism to the nation−state...

December 3, 2008

The European Left And Ours

Bernard-Henri Lévy, on point and off

November 17, 2008

Supposing Obama Were a Bipartisan

In August 2004, a then-obscure Illinois state senator delivered a dazzling keynote address at the Democratic National Convention...

November 7, 2008

The Presidential Nomination Mess

It is a peculiarity of American government that after more than 200 years no fixed system exists for selecting the president of the United States...

November 3, 2008

Towering Ivories

Stanley Fish and his ideal of the American university.

October 27, 2008

Are Universities Above the Law?

Three lawsuits—against Dartmouth College and Duke and Princeton universities—may be the best things to happen to higher education in decades.

October 12, 2008

I’m OK—You’re a Selfish, Partisan Hypocrite

Selfish, Partisan Hypocrite by James Ceaser

A Hoover/ Economist survey of political attitudes finds voters in no mood for postpartisan lovey-dovey. By James W. Ceaser.

October 1, 2008

The 2008 Democratic Shift

Figure 1 Party Identification 1952–2004

How voters have changed and why