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

September 3, 2012 | Wall Street Journal
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Cardinal Dolan Goes to Charlotte

by Robert P. George (Senior Fellow and member of the Task Force on Virtues of a Free Society)
August 15, 2012 | Project Syndicate
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Why Are Governments Paralyzed?

by David Brady (Deputy Director; Davies Family Senior Fellow; (Acting) Director of Library and Archives; and cochair, Virtues of a Free Society Task Force) and Michael Spence (Senior Fellow)
August 1, 2012 | Policy Review
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The Constitution and Globalization

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)
July 3, 2012 | Defining Ideas (Hoover Institution)
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The Wisdom of George Washington

by Diana Schaub (member of the Task Force on Virtues of a Free Society)
June 23, 2012 | Washington Post
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What Would Thomas Jefferson Think of the U-Va. Turmoil?

by James W. Ceaser (senior fellow and member of the Task Force on Virtues of a Free Society)
Whenever there is a controversy at the University of Virginia — such as the current one over the abrupt removal of president Teresa Sullivan — the natural reflex is to ask: What would the school’s founder, Thomas Jefferson, think?...
June 3, 2012 | Wall Street Journal
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Who's Number One?

by James W. Ceaser (senior fellow and member of the Task Force on Virtues of a Free Society)
James W. Ceaser reviews "Where They Stand," the latest attempt to assess and rank the greatness of America's many presidents...
June 14, 2012 | Defining Ideas (Hoover Institution)
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Why We Can't All Just Get Along

by William Damon (Senior Fellow and member of the Virtues of a Free Society Task Force)
A review of Jonathan Haidt’s The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion...
May 22, 2012 | Claremont Institute
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Restoring the Constitution

by James W. Ceaser (senior fellow and member of the Task Force on Virtues of a Free Society)
If the Constitution is being offered as the solution, it is necessary to specify what the problem is and how a revival of constitutionalism would help to fix it...
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...