(A) Politics, Political Parties, Election Regulations

Ed Feulner Built Institutions in Support of American Values

By Mike Pence - July 21, 2025

Principles of Government · February 6, 2024 ·

By Mike Pence – As the founder of the Heritage Foundation, Ed was a leading voice of conservatism for more than 50 years. Under his leadership, Heritage became both a center for scholarship and a powerhouse of strategic influence.

What concerned him, as always, was the long-term health of the American Republic, and the strength of the institutions that would defend it for generations to come.

Ed didn’t just build up institutions; he cultivated a movement that brought ivory tower ideas into the public square and never lost sight of the moral and spiritual foundations of liberty. Read More

‘Follow the Science’ Leads to Ruin A

By Bjorn Lomborg - March 13, 2024

Principles of Government · January 21, 2022 ·

Over the past two centuries, global life quality has dramatically improved, to a large extent because of an incredible increase in energy, mostly from the harnessing of fossil fuels. That has made agriculture, industry and transportation vastly more productive. Average life spans have more than doubled, hunger has dramatically declined, and real income has increased tenfold. We risk all that progress if we just stop using fossil fuels.
The world still gets four-fifths of its energy from fossil fuels, because renewable sources rarely provide good alternatives. Half the world’s population entirely depends on food grown with synthetic fertilizer produced almost entirely by natural gas. If we rapidly ceased using fossil fuels, four billion people would suddenly be without food. Read More

Isolationism Makes a Perilous Moment More So A

By Paul A. Gigot - Nov. 12, 2023

Principles of Government · December 2, 2023 ·

By Paul A. Gigot – The relevant questions are: How did we get here? And what to do about it? The answer to the first question is that we forgot the lesson of history. One of my military mentors was Andy Marshall, the legendary Pentagon strategist, who liked to say that peace is best understood as an interlude between wars. Robert Gates issued a similar warning as he retired as defense secretary in 2011 when he said that, when wars end, the U.S. always makes the mistake of drawing down defenses and leaving ourselves vulnerable. We ignored him. So what do we do about it? The obvious initial answer is to spend more on defense, and soon. But that is the easy part; we know the policy solution. The harder issue is finding the political will to do it, while persuading adversaries that we are credible enough to restore American deterrence. As we have learned in Ukraine and now in the Middle East, U.S. deterrence has faded. And the world’s rogues are on the march. Read More

‘Not Accountable’ Review: Unelected Legislators A

By John Ketcham - March 13, 2023

Principles of Government · August 26, 2023 ·

By John Ketcham – In short, the union thwarted the mayor’s authority over the city’s schools and commandeered the state’s legislative power. In this case and many others, a public-sector union served its own interests at the expense of the public’s. In “Not Accountable,” Philip Howard shows in vivid detail how such practices have made government at all levels unmanageable, inefficient and opposed to the common good. He argues that, in fact, public unions—that is, unions whose members work for the government—are forbidden by the Constitution. Read More

Ed Feulner Built Institutions in Support of American Values

‘Follow the Science’ Leads to Ruin A

Isolationism Makes a Perilous Moment More So A

‘Not Accountable’ Review: Unelected Legislators A

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