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

May 30, 2011 | Weekly Standard
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Manliness and Morality

by Harvey C. Mansfield (Carol G. Simon Senior Fellow and member of the Task Force on Virtues of a Free Society)
The transgressions of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Dominique Strauss-Kahn...
May 14, 2011 | Wall Street Journal
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The Visionary Generation

by James W. Ceaser (senior fellow and member of the Task Force on Virtues of a Free Society)
Our premier student of the Founding looks at the ideas that shaped the revolution and the early republic...
May 10, 2011 | Boston Review
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Building a Majority

by David Brady (Deputy Director; Davies Family Senior Fellow; (Acting) Director of Library and Archives; and cochair, Virtues of a Free Society Task Force)
Solving the problems so clearly set out by Representative Cooper will not be achieved by tinkering with House and Senate rules and norms. Rather, the solution is for leaders to build majorities for their views...
April 22, 2011 | Defining Ideas (Hoover Institution)
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Compassionate Conservatism, An Idea in Tension

by Clifford Orwin (member of the Task Force on Virtues of a Free Society)
Can a house divided between conflicting defining ideas stand...?
April 18, 2011 | Wall Street Journal
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Is Yale University Sexist?

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)
Allegations about a 'hostile environment' for women could cost the university a half-billion in federal funding...
April 11, 2011 | Weekly Standard
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Upon Further Review...

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)
Judge Goldstone withdraws his charge of Israeli war crimes...
April 4, 2011 | Weekly Standard
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The U.N. Effect

by Tod Lindberg (Research Fellow and member of the Virtues of a Free Society Task Force)
Obama’s quest for ‘international legitimacy’ makes for a dishonest Libya policy...
March 13, 2011 | New York Times
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Is the Imperial Presidency Inevitable?

by Harvey C. Mansfield (Carol G. Simon Senior Fellow and member of the Task Force on Virtues of a Free Society)
The executive outranks the other coequal branches, a pair of law professors maintain. And we should learn to accept that...
March 1, 2011 | Defining Ideas (Hoover Institution)
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Compassionate Conservatism: A Primer

by Clifford Orwin (member of the Task Force on Virtues of a Free Society)
The historical and political origins of a philosophy...
February 5, 2011 | Wall Street Journal
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To the Heart of American Exceptionalism

by Harvey C. Mansfield (Carol G. Simon Senior Fellow and member of the Task Force on Virtues of a Free Society)
Surveying Alexis de Tocqueville's thoughts on American Exceptionalism and democracy, Harvey Mansfield says we can hardly read too much Tocqueville these days...