Citizen Leadership

The wrong lessons, as usual, are being taken from the weekend attacks in Tucson, AZ. The first reports on the shooting of some 18 people in Arizona—with six dead, including a federal judge, and the critical wounding of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords of Tucson—led almost at once to speculation that the shooter might have been someone influenced by the tea parties Read More ›

‘Tis the season to be litigious. In Pittsburgh, Staten Island, Brookville, Ind., and Jackson, Miss., Nativity scenes have been challenged, sometimes removed, then (in Pittsburgh) eventually replaced. The manger scene has become such a potent symbol in the “war over Christmas” that its revolutionary meaning is being lost — even by some who “embrace the Christian label,” as news articles Read More ›

This article, published by National Review, mentions Discovery Institute Senior Fellow George Gilder: Eric Cantor, who is poised to become the House majority leader, reads voraciously. At one point, one of his staffers, Neil Bradley, recommended that he read George Gilder’s The Israel Test. Cantor replied that he had read it six months earlier. The rest of the article can be Read More ›

This article, published by The Washington Examiner, quotes Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Jay Richards: The polls are not necessarily conflicting though, said Jay Richards, senior fellow of Discovery Institute and author of “Money, Greed, and God.” The rest of the article can be found here.

This article, published by the Daily Review Atlas, refers to a speech made by Bruce Chapman of Discovery Institute: West Central Leadership, a part of the University of Illinois Extension, hosted its fall luncheon Tuesday, with Bruce Chapman as the keynote speaker. The rest of the article can be found here.

Jerry Brown, as candidate for Governor of California in 2010, is presenting himself as a strong friend of immigration, but when he was governor in 1975 he was the nation’s most outspoken and active foe of immigration by political refugees from Vietnam. It is astonishing, as I visit California this week, to see how this relevant history seemingly has been forgotten. Read More ›

Those of us who love the sport insist that baseball’s status as our distinctive “national pastime” means that a visit to any major league game can help place America’s present predicament in proper perspective. That’s particularly true if your favorite team has been going through a lousy season that mirrors the nation’s own recent economic and political struggles. My hometown Seattle Read More ›

Tonight’s victories by Tea Party candidates in Delaware, New York and New Hampshire will be all over the news in the morning, and happily commenting on them will be Scott Rassmussen (of the Rassmussen Poll) and Doug Schoen. They are authors of Mad as Hell: How the Tea Party Movement is Fundamentally Remaking Our Two-Party System. Their book’s pub date is Read More ›

The Hebrew Republic: Jewish Sources and the Transformation of European Political Thought by Eric Nelson Harvard, 240 pp., $27.95 Created Equal: How the Bible Broke with Ancient Political Thought by Joshua A. Berman Oxford, 264 pp., $39.95 In the longstanding, periodically eruptive political fight over whether the United States is historically a “Christian nation,” the hotspot was recently the state Read More ›

Tom Alberg, who helped found Discovery Institute in 1990 and was president of its Board for many years (and still serves as a Director), is one of the most innovative entrepreneurs around. He knows the importance of pro-growth economic policies and is keenly aware of the dangers of the present moment. So it is with delight that I note that Read More ›