The more difficult times are, the more intense the demand for simple solutions. This seems to be the case for both individuals and groups, be they corporations, religions, or nations. The February 25, 2010 issue of the New York Review of Books carried some short essays on Isaiah Berlin (1909-1997). Nicholas Kristof of the New […]
Matt Latimer, Speech-less: Tales of a Wh...
Speech-less tells an all-too-familiar tale—an idealistic twenty-something comes to DC to work for the government and ends up disillusioned. Matt Latimer grew up in a humble town in Michigan, the son of two committed liberal Democrats. He caught the fever for conservatism, which included a philia for Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson. A clever chap, Latimer […]
Research Resource: Online Archive of The...
The Public Interest was founded in 1965 by Daniel Bell and Irving Kristol and ceased publication in 2005. It was a very influential journal of policy and political thought, and at its best featured top writers from across the political spectrum. The Public Interest often was critical of the status quo, and regularly argued for […]
Sam Tanenhaus, The Death of Conservatism...
A Thoughtful Take on the Travails of Modern Conservatism, by Kevin R. Kosar, October 29, 2009 A cacophony of voices have taken up the topic of “what’s wrong with the right?” Sam Tanenhaus, editor of the New York Times Book Review, has written an engaging book on the subject. Tanenhaus’s stated interest is in conservatism […]
Lecture on Unintended Consequences and I...
Christopher DeMuth, former head of the American Enterprise Institute, and now its D. C. Searle Senior Fellow, gave a lecture on public policy this past June. He reviewed the neoconservative and Chicago free market criticisms of government action, and focuses much of his lecture on regulatory policy. DeMuth forcefully argued that regulation frequently has unintended […]