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- 1From:AEI Paper & StudiesIntroduction: What Is Your Abbey? MICHAEL Q. McSHANE "Does conservative political thought have a place in America today?" If you are an American college student, I'd have to imagine this is a question you are...
- 2From:AEI Paper & StudiesWhen it comes to K-12 schooling, conservatives have been far better at explaining what we oppose than what we favor. Everyone knows we are broadly against federal overreach, reckless spending, and teachers unions. But...
- 3From:AEI Paper & StudiesDue to the recent wave of momentum behind universal vouchers and education savings accounts, charter schools have become an afterthought for some conservative school choice advocates. For tens of millions of families,...
- 4From:AEI Paper & StudiesConservatives often say that Big Tech companies, especially Facebook and Twitter, discriminate against conservative viewpoints. However, conservatives make two assumptions that, on closer inspection, are faulty: (1) that...
- 5From:AEI Paper & StudiesKey Points * The stability of the Constitution promotes reverence among the public, which in turn facilitates social order. * This suggests that conservatives should be hesitant to amend the Constitution, for...
- 6From:AEI Paper & StudiesIn the first two pages of this edition of Political Report, we display the public's initial reaction to Court nominees as measured by several different pollsters. Initial readings are usually more positive than negative...
- 7From:AEI Paper & StudiesIn all 2016 contests thus far where entrance or exit polls were taken, higher percentages of voters in Democratic contests identified as liberal than in 2008. The share of voters in Republican contests identifying as...
- 8From:AEI Paper & StudiesIn the 27 states where GOP entrance or exit polls have been taken thus far, Ted Cruz carried the white born-again evangelical vote in eight. In a separate question, he did better among "very conservative" voters,...
- 9From:Encyclopedia of World BiographyBIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY Author, editor, and political activist, William F. Buckley, Jr. (born 1925) helped to create the modern conservative political movement. His journal, National Review, prepared the way for the...
- 10From:Encyclopedia of World BiographyBIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY Hailed as Time's "Man of the Year" in 1995 and touted by some historians as this century's most influential Speaker, U.S. Representative Newt Gingrich (born 1943) held on to his Speaker's post by a...
- 11From:Encyclopedia of World BiographyBIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY After a classic education and diplomatic career, Douglas Hurd (born 1930) turned to English Conservative Party politics. He became home secretary in 1985 and, under Margaret Thatcher (and later...
- 12From:Encyclopedia of World BiographyBIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY Barry Goldwater (1909-1998) was elected as a Republican to the U.S. Senate five times between 1952 and 1980, leaving temporarily to run unsuccessfully for president in 1964. His outspoken...
- 13From:Encyclopedia of World BiographyBIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY Yegor Kuz'mich Ligachev (born 1920) was a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union beginning in 1966. During the 1980s he became a leading advocate of a more...
- 14From:AEI Paper & StudiesIntroduction FREDERICK M. HESS AND MAX EDEN Opportunity is the watchword of American conservativism. Our nation's creed presumes that every American has the right to strive to make the most of his or her gifts....
- 15From:Encyclopedia of World BiographyBIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY H. L. Hunt (1889-1974) was an entrepreneur who built a financial empire from a small early investment in oil in Arkansas. In his later years he was perhaps the world's richest man. Born on his...
- 16From:The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know (3rd ed.)A general preference for the existing order of society, and an opposition to efforts to bring about sharp change. (Compare liberalism.)...
- 17From:Encyclopedia of World BiographyBIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY In 1981 Sandra Day O'Connor (born 1930) became the first woman to serve as a justice of the United States Supreme Court. During the final month of the 1980 presidential campaign, candidate...
- 18From:Encyclopedia of World BiographyBIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY William Hubbs Rehnquist (1924-2005), one of the most Conservative members of the Supreme Court, became the court's Chief Justice when he succeeded Justice Warren Burger in 1986. William Hubbs...
- 19From:Encyclopedia of World BiographyBIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY Jesse Helms (born 1921), a conservative Senator from North Carolina, was well liked by the religious right for his position on abortion rights, school prayer, and school busing. Born in Monroe,...
- 20From:Encyclopedia of World BiographyBIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy (born 1936) was appointed by Ronald Reagan in 1988. His votes generally tipped the balance in favor of conservative decisions. Anthony M. Kennedy,...