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The Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation and Library of Congress hosted a conference marking the centennial of the 30th president’s ascension to the White House. After President Warren Ha…

Author Steven Hayward joined Book TV to talk and take calls about leadership, for President Ronald Reagan’s political career, and the American conservative movement. His books include The Ag…

University of California Berkeley Law Professor John Yoo, who served as the deputy assistant U.S. attorney general during the George W. Bush administration, joined author and political comme…

Speakers including two former National Security Council staff members who served under Ronald Reagan discussed the 40th president’s Cold War politics. The discussion was part of a conference…

Townhall political editor Guy Benson and other political commentators participated in a panel discussion on the future of the political parties. This panel was part of a World Affairs confer…

Historians and former legislators talk about which president, Calvin Coolidge or Ronald Reagan, is the better model for contemporary Republican candidates. They spoke about the foreign polic…

Steven Hayward, Molly Ball, Michael Green, and Steve Sebelius participated in a panel discussion on style and substance in the 2016 presidential election.

James Pierson talked about his book, Camelot and the Cultural Revolution: How the Assassination of John F. Kennedy Shattered American Liberalism, published by Encounter Books. In his book Ja…

Donald Kagan made opening remarks at the fourth annual conference of the William F. Buckley, Jr. Program, giving a biographical sketch of James Burnham before a panel discussion. “The Li…

Panelists talked about the legacy of President Ronald Reagan. 2014 marked ten years since President Reagan’s death. Panelists included Reagan biographer Lou Cannon and former Reagan speech w…

Participants talked about conservatism and the Republican Party and debated whether the party had become too extreme. Among the topics they addressed were the degree of partisan argument in …

Election scholars spoke about growing division and partisanship in the political culture over the past few decades, with a focus on divisions in the Republican Party leading to declining inf…

To mark George Washington’s birthday, the American Enterprise Institute hosted a gathering of political thinkers to consider the presidency and legacy of our nation’s first chief executive. …

Presidential historian Steven Hayward presents his rankings of America’s presidents based on their efforts to “preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States.” The autho…

Robert Nelson argues that environmentalism and economics are the leading secular religions in the U.S. today. He says that this becomes obvious when one looks at the debate over global warmi…

A panel discussed Peter Wallison’s book Ronald Reagan: The Power of Conviction and the Success of His Presidency, published by Westview Press. The book is about the author’s experiences …

Steven Hayward talked about his book The Age of Reagan: The Conservative Counterrevolution, 1980-1989 (Crown Forum; August 25, 2009). This second volume on the political career of President …

Sam Tanenhaus talked about his book The Death of Conservatism (Random House, 2009). In his book Mr. Tanenhaus gives an intellectual history of conservatism, saying that for seventy-five year…

Steven Hayward delivered the monthly Bradley lecture at the American Enterprise Institute. He talked about the “Reagan Revolution,” which explored the potential for, and discovered the limit…

The House Energy and Environment Subcommittee held a hearing on climate change legislation. The panels testified about the economic implications of climate change legislation, specifically c…