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The Weekly Bell (late August catch-up version!)
It’s been a busy summer! Angelo Codevilla tells what it will take to stop ISIS. His new book, To Make and Keep Peace Among Ourselves and with All Nations (Hoover Institution Press Publication), was...
View ArticleRichard M. Scaife, R.I.P.
Paul Kengor offers a lovely tribute to Richard M. Scaife, who passed away July 4.…
View ArticleIn Preparation for Grand Rapids
Recent pieces by members and others provide background fodder for our upcoming fall meeting on The Failure–and Future?–of the Welfare State: Here are two takes on Paul Ryan’s recent proposals for...
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Wesley McDonald, R.I.P.
W. Wesley McDonald 1946 – 2014 Wesley McDonald, a professor of Political Science at Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania, an author, and a leading authority on the scholar, Russell Kirk, died on...
View ArticleLeonard P. Liggio, R.I.P.
On Tuesday, October 14, 2014, Leonard P. Liggio, Distinguished Member and two-time president of The Philadelphia Society, passed from this mortal life into the Eternal realm. I first met Leonard in the...
View ArticleDon Devine: The Enduring Tension
Don Devine elaborates on his panel remarks at the 2015 Spring Meeting on The Roots of Conservatism–and Its Future....
View ArticleGeorge Nash on Hoover’s Crusade Against Collectivism
George Nash lecture at The Hoover Institute on April 20, 2015. …
View ArticleApril 2015 Members on the Web
Daniel Oliver, Tell A Joke. Save A Culture. Richard Bishirjian, The Conservative Rebellion (Buy the Book) George Leef, The Attack on The First Amendment Isn’t New: Employers Have Been Silenced Since...
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David Clemens, With Friends like These, the Humanities Don’t Need Enemies Warren Coats, Dennis Hastert and the Law Warren Coats, Greece’s Banking Sector Options (TV Interview) (Atlas Network) George...
View ArticleYou are invited: Magna Carta Anniversary Celebration in Wheaton,IL
On June 15, 1215, at Runnymede, in England, King John signed Magna Carta. The rest, as they say, is history. On June 15, 2015, at Wheaton, in Illinois, King John, under the watchful eyes of wary...
View ArticleBernard W. Sheehan, R.I.P.
Bernard W. Sheehan, 81 Feb. 24, 1934—June 13, 2015 BLOOMINGTON — Bernard W. Sheehan died June 13, 2015, at Hospice House in Bloomington, Indiana. He was born February 24, 1934, in New York City. He...
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Recent Books Paul Kengor, Takedown Recent Essays David Keene, Countering the GOP’s Nation-Building Mindset George Leef, The Court should rehear Fisher Warren Coats, Crony Capitalism and the Export...
View Article7/4/15: William Ford, RIP
From Joe Morris: With great sorrow I advise of the death this morning — Independence Day — at Park Ridge, Illinois, of William “Bill” Ford, 77 ((June 26, 1938 – July 4, 2015). A lifelong Chicagoan,...
View ArticleJuly 2015 Member Updates
Tracy Mehan has been named Executive Director of Government Affairs for the American Water Works Association. He will begin his duties in Washington, D.C. on Aug. 3, succeeding Tom Curtis in leading...
View ArticleDonald Devine: A Libertarian View of Francis’ Laudato Si
July 30, 2015 Pope Francis’ encyclical Laudato Si (“Be Praised”) has been acclaimed by the international media as a call to action on global warming, to combat its threat to world survival. It has been...
View ArticleJohn Zmirak: Planned Parenthood’s Bill Cosby Moment?
The fourth and most horrifying video has appeared exposing Planned Parenthood and its profiteering off of the bodies of unborn children it kills. In the most appalling moment in recent American...
View ArticleGeorge Leef: Valdosta State Case
Occasionally, you come across a legal case so strange that it makes you stop and wonder, “Is this even for real?” Such a case has recently come to an end with a strong victory for student free speech...
View ArticleForrest McDonald (1985): Why Yankees Won’t (and Can’t) Leave the South Alone
Reprinted at The Imaginative Conservative: Southerners rarely while away their leisure hours by contemplating Yankees, for there is no point in thinking of unpleasant things if one is not obliged to do...
View ArticleMilton Friedman: 20 Quotes in Honor of His 103rd Birthday Anniversary
Collected at Townhall.com 20) “A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.” 19) “Because we live in a...
View ArticleWilliam F. Buckley Jr: Best of Enemies
A new film, Best of Enemies, looks back at the Buckley vs Vidal debates of 1968. See the trailer here.…
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