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

January 7, 2011 | Pajamas Media

What Would a Return to the Constitution Entail?

Rather than the New York Times' outdated vision of "Progressivism," conservatives should become proponents of progress understood as the crafting of better laws to protect individual freedom...
December 1, 2010

Obama and the State of Progressivism, 2011

Playing to the people’s prejudices while disparaging their preferences
November 10, 2010 | Real Clear Politics

The 2010 Verdict

A check [on presidential programmatic power] seems to be exactly what the public had in mind in 2010, ending liberal hopes that Obama's presidency would inaugurate a "new" New Deal...
November 5, 2010 | Wall Street Journal

The Thinker

The president as intellectual and political philosopher...
October 30, 2010 | Weekly Standard

President McCain at Midterm

...[T]his is not fiction but rather an attempt to take what we know about American politics and ask what would have happened if, mirabile dictu, the 2008 election had gone the other way and John McCain were president of the United States today...
October 16, 2010 | Wall Street Journal

Why Liberals Don't Get the Tea Party Movement

Our universities haven't taught much political history for decades. No wonder so many progressives have disdain for the principles that animated the Federalist debates...
October 1, 2010

The Cheshire Cat Conservative

Peter Berkowitz on Athwart History: Half a Century of Polemics, Animadversions, and Illuminations: A William F. Buckley Jr. Omnibus. by Linda Bridges and Roger Kimball, eds.

September 13, 2010 | Weekly Standard

Partisanship Isn't Enough (but It Is Essential)

Glenn Beck’s rally for Restoring Honor on August 28 took most everyone by surprise with its nonpartisan appeal...
September 4, 2010 | National Review Online

The President’s Stem-Cell Dollars and the Judge’s Rebuke

Advancing science does not justify the destruction of human life...
August 28, 2010 | Wall Street Journal

The Death of Conservatism Was Greatly Exaggerated

In 2008 liberals proclaimed the collapse of Reaganism. Two years later the idea of limited government is back in vogue...