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James Ceaser is the Harry F. Byrd Professor of Politics at the University of Virginia, director of the Program for Constitutionalism and Democracy, and was a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. He is the author of several books on American politics and American political thought, including...
President Franklin Delano Obama Addresses The Threat Of 1930s Violent Extremism
Imagine Obama as an American president in 1939.
Paul Samuelson's Take On The Great Depression
In jumping around through the blogosphere last night, I came across this quote from Paul Samuelson, in an interview he did in 2009 with Conor Clarke.
Presidential Libraries: Taking Stock As Obama Readies His Own
By voting yesterday to approve release of 20 acres of public parkland to the University of Chicago, the local City Council finally cleared the last obstacle to its pending hometown bid for the Barack Obama Library and Museum.
Abraham Lincoln's War On Inequality
Abraham Lincoln would be embarrassed about the polarization of U.S. politics today, 150 years after his assassination. Make no mistake, Lincoln was a polarizing president.
Policy Powerhouse
Both a scholar and a skillful practitioner of the art of practical politics, the late Hoover fellow Martin Anderson took transformative ideas and made them real.
Lee Kuan Yew And Henry Kissinger
As the debates rage along the Potomac regarding the Iran nuclear framework, ISIS, the Ukraine crisis, the rise of Chinese power and a half dozen other important U.S. foreign policy challenges, how better to think about these problems than to seek council from the two most impressive strategists of the post World War II era – the late Lee Kuan Yew and Henry Kissinger.
CPAC must honor Reagan coalition
Efforts to divide conservatives against themselves must be renounced and put to rest...
"To Hell With the Constitution!"
In 1902 Theodore Roosevelt intervened in a strike by Pennsylvania coal miners, exceeding his Constitutional authority as president. When this was pointed out to him by Republican House whip James E. Watson, Roosevelt allegedly yelled, “To hell with the Constitution when the people want coal!”
The War That Must Never Be Fought: Dilemmas Of Nuclear Deterrence
Shultz, who served as U.S. secretary of state from 1982 to 1989, and Goodby, a former U.S. arms negotiator, make the case for governments to take urgent steps toward abolishing nuclear weapons.
Mansfield Examines Origins Of US Government
Harvey Mansfield, a political philosopher and professor at Harvard, gave a talk on Friday afternoon as part of BC’s John Marshall Project, which studies the citizenship and statesmanship required by a constitutional republic. Mansfield’s talk focused on The Federalist Papers and the way in which James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay formulated their argument for America’s current system of government.
Another Brutal Review Of Nancy Maclean, Democracy In Chains
As readers will recall, Duke history professor Nancy MacLean wrote a widely-publicized book, Democracy in Chains, that purports to be an intellectual history of the late public choice economist James Buchanan, and his asserted vast influence on current American politics. Critics, most but not all of them libertarians intimately familiar with Buchanan's life and legacy, have been harshly dismissive.
Jim Mattis On Leadership And Staying Mum On Trump
Hoover Institution fellow James Mattis discusses his latest book Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead, and his time as secretary of defense.
Unstable Majorities
Democratic and Republican lawmakers are farther removed from each other than ever—but they’re also farther removed from the views of most ordinary voters. Hoover fellow Morris P. Fiorina explores this hollow political center.
New nuclear treaty is the latest crusade of George Shultz--at 90
History is made by individuals, and once in a while events come along to remind us of that...
Mattis: We Haven’t Gotten A Military Intervention Right Since Desert Storm
Hoover Institution fellow James Mattis says military interventions must have clear end states, something he says the US has not gotten right since 1991.
Mattis On Moving Pentagon Money To Construction Of Wall: I Don't Comment On Current Policies
Hoover Institution fellow James Mattis talks about his life and lessons he has learned along the way, as well as his latest book Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead.
Distinguished Voices Series With Jim Mattis
Hoover Institution fellow James Mattis discusses his latest book Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead.
Don’t Demonize The Electoral College — Or The Framers — As Racist
To Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, it embodies “a shadow of slavery’s power.” To the New York Times editorial board it represents “a living symbol of America’s original sin.” To filmmaker Michael Moore, it advances a “racist idea.”
Pacific Century: Suing China?
Can the US Hold China Responsible for the Pandemic?