conservatives

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/13/2020
  

  Conservative Groups Mobilize and Push White House to Try and Reopen Economy Despite Coronavirus Pandemic

  The outside effort from conservative groups is expected to be led by Stephen Moore, a conservative at the Heritage Foundation who is close with White House economic officials.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/6/20
  

  The divisive case for giving Rush Limbaugh the Medal of Freedom

  by Brian Rosenwald

  One of our most transformative figures has also been deeply polarizing.  

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• SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
  8/25/19
  

  The Weaponization of History

  by Wilfred M. McClay

  Ignorantly invoking slavery or the Holocaust is an affront to those who seriously study the past.

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• SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
  5/17/19
  

  Reclaiming History From Howard Zinn

  by Naomi Schaefer Riley

  The left’s portrait of America’s past has triumphed thanks to the abdication of serious historians. Wilfred M. McClay offers an antidote.

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• 4/30/19
  

  The Upstart Press Mogul Who Changed How We Understand the World

  by Bruce Chadwick

  A review of Ink--the play about controversial media mogul Rupert Murdoch.

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• SOURCE: Daily Beast
  3/23/19
  

  The Historian Who Thinks Donald Trump Is a Movie Hero

  A new book argues Trump is the modern-day equivalent of a gun-toting cowboy riding into town to help inept lawmen and rescue damsels in distress.

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• SOURCE: Boston Globe
  2/11/19
  

  The Democrats’ dilemma: two parties in one

  by Niall Ferguson

  In their eagerness to recruit a new generation of young voters, the Democrats have — not for the first time in their history — admitted a faction of radical ideologues into their midst.

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian Magazine
  2/4/19
  

  Smithsonian Magazine Interviews Amy S. Greenberg on Sarah Polk and the Model of Conservative Female Power

  The popular and pious wife to President James Polk had little use for the nascent suffrage movement  

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• SOURCE: New York Review of Books
  1/3/19
  

  How Trump Has Inspired the Return of the Neocons

  by Stephen Wertheim

  Today, neoconservatives are riding high once more, in the White House, on Capitol Hill, in the most prominent organs of opinion. Why? 

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• SOURCE: Slate
  2-26-18
  

  Why Are Conservatives So Obsessed With Gun Rights Anyway?

  by John Ehrenreich

  Belief in gun rights hasn’t always been a conservative ideology. Psychology helps explain how it took off.

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• SOURCE: New Republic
  12-11-17
  

  What Liberals Can Learn From Conservatism

  by Jonathan Zimmerman

  Criticizing the president with the kind of radical rhetoric he uses is toxic for American democracy.

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• 1-5-15
  

  Ten Questions for Conservatives

  by Lawrence S. Wittner

  The questions suggest conservatives say one thing but do another.

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• SOURCE: Commentary
  5-19-14
  

  When the Right Turns on America

  by Peter Wehner

  "This kind of language–America is bordering on or has basically become a tyranny–is common currency within some quarters of conservatism."

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• SOURCE: National Review
  11-12-13
  

  Obama’s Fallout for the Left

  by Victor Davis Hanson

  He will not be harmed by his “misspeaking,” but his fellow liberals will.

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• SOURCE: CNN
  10-14-13
  

  Liberals, Stop Whining and Do Something

  by Julian Zelizer

  If liberals really want change, they need to make it happen at the grassroots level.

• SOURCE: AP
  6-21-13
  

  CU launches diversity study

  BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — University of Colorado regents are conducting a survey to determine whether the school respects diversity for people who disagree on politics, race, gender and sexual orientation.The survey, which was approved Thursday by University of Colorado regents, is planned for the upcoming school year on all campuses.Some conservatives have expressed concern that many educators are too liberal, while other critics have complained that some school officials are intolerant of social differences.In March, the university hired a history professor to be the resident conservative at the Boulder campus. Steven Hayward will serve as the school's first visiting scholar in conservative thought and policy, a temporary position paid by more than $1 million in private funds....