Paul D. Miller, associate director at the University of Texas-Austin’s Clements Center for National Security, spoke at the conservative think tank Heritage Foundation to discuss his book, American Power and Liberal Order: A Conservative Internationalist…
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What’s Next for Trump and Taiwan?
Before President-elect Trump’s recent exchange of greetings with Taiwanese leaders, Gordon G. Chang, author of The Coming Collapse of China, spoke at the conservative think tank Heritage Foundation , giving his take the incoming administration and…
North Korean Defector Outlines Struggles of Leaving Children Behind
Don’t expect the word “communist” to join the host of adjectives that precede the word “studies” in academe. Genuine studies of communist oppression don’t fit the academic narrative. At a Heritage Foundation panel discussion recently,…
Obama Scaring Allies on Nuclear ‘No First Use’ Policy
The Obama administration is considering a ‘no first use’ policy, which is not sitting well with longtime American allies, said Professor Matthew Kroenig, an associate professor of government and foreign service at Georgetown University, at…
“The Terrorist Threat against U.S. has Never Been Greater” says Johns Hopkins Lecturer
At the Heritage Foundation, Dr. Mary Habeck, an adjunct lecturer at John Hopkins’ School of Advanced International Studies (known as SAIS), noted that terrorism has spiked since 2011. She said that today, “the terrorist threat…
Miranda Rights Should be Reconsidered
Should the U.S. Supreme Court reconsider the famous ‘Miranda’ rights? One law professor at the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law, Paul Cassell, made a case for remaking what we know today as…
Report: Common Core Doesn’t Prepare Children for College
This from The Daily Signal: A recently released report confirms what Common Core critics have suspected all along: Common Core State Standards do not adequately prepare students for college-level work. The ACT report finds many…
Orlando Attack Shows We have to Tell Children to Stop Hating America
A good read from our friend Mike Gonzalez: Despite signs everywhere that the Orlando massacre has failed to bring the country together, there seems to be a growing consensus on at least one point—considering a…
Scholar: To Protect Intellectual Diversity, There has to be Financial Repercussions to Push the Left
From the College Fix: Historian Kim Holmes told The College Fix he wrote The Closing of the Liberal Mind: How Groupthink and Intolerance Define the Left “to point to the unique nature of the postmodern…
Religious Universities Pressured to Secularize
Since the Supreme Court decision on marriage, the government has put many religious universities on the “shame list” if they seek waivers that allow them to teach traditional values of marriage and sexuality without being stripped of grants or funding.