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

October 1, 2011 | Policy Review
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Religion in America

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 American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us by Robert D. Putnam and David E. Campbell, with the assistance of Shaylyn Romney Garrett...
September 29, 2011 | Defining Ideas (Hoover Institution)
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The Fall of Compassionate Conservatism

by Clifford Orwin (member of the Task Force on Virtues of a Free Society)
George W. Bush first embraced the idea and then let it die...
September 16, 2011 | Defining Ideas (Hoover Institution)
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The Education of Steve Jobs

by William Damon (Senior Fellow and member of the Virtues of a Free Society Task Force)
Why do so many talented entrepreneurs drop out of school...?
September 7, 2011 | Wall Street Journal
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The Myth of Conservative Purity

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)
Adam Smith, the Founding Fathers, Ronald Reagan—all practiced the art of wise compromise...
September 1, 2011 | Defining Ideas (Hoover Institution)
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The Vexing Virtue

by Harvey C. Mansfield (Carol G. Simon Senior Fellow and member of the Task Force on Virtues of a Free Society)
In a new book, Eric Felten offers a charming and erudite account of loyalty...
August 23, 2011 | Weekly Standard
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The New California

by Tod Lindberg (Research Fellow and member of the Virtues of a Free Society Task Force)
Whether he wins the nomination or not, Rick Perry’s August charge into the top echelon of GOP presidential hopefuls marks at least this turning point: In national Republican politics, Texas is the new California...
July 1, 2011 | Defining Ideas (Hoover Institution)
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American Amnesia

by William Damon (Senior Fellow and member of the Virtues of a Free Society Task Force)
Young people in this country are failing civics, which is a crisis for the nation...
July 1, 2011 | Wall Street Journal
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Clarence Thomas, Plato and 'Grand Theft Auto'

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)
Debates over free expression and educating the young are as old as our civilization...
June 3, 2011 | Defining Ideas (Hoover Institution)
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Reviving Memorial Day

by Diana Schaub (member of the Task Force on Virtues of a Free Society)
What Frederick Douglass taught us about the holiday...
May 31, 2011 | Weekly Standard
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Obama in the Abstract

by Tod Lindberg (Research Fellow and member of the Virtues of a Free Society Task Force)
Spokesman for the ‘international community...’