Politics & Policy

Whitney Ball Knew the Landscape of the Conservative Movement Unlike Any Other

By James Piereson August 18, 2015

Whitney Ball, president of Donors Trust and spirited soldier in the conservative movement, passed away Sunday at her home in Alexandria, Va., at the age of 52.

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Worldwide Social Engineering, Brought to You by All the Smart Philanthropists

By James Piereson & Naomi Schaefer Riley July 13, 2015

When it comes to inequality, much of the focus of philanthropic foundations is on so-called root causes and very little on proximate ones.

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The Starbucks Solution

By James Piereson & Naomi Schaefer Riley June 30, 2014

The recent news that Starbucks will partner with Arizona State University to give the coffee chain’s employees greater access to higher education is a very positive development. Not just because skyrocketing ...

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The Right JFK

By James Piereson November 25, 2013

After President Kennedy’s assassination in 1963, his supporters portrayed him as a liberal hero and a martyr for liberal causes. Kennedy loyalists Theodore Sorensen and Arthur Schlesinger Jr. soon published ...

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The Hollow and the Ivy

By James Piereson February 4, 2010

The Marketplace of Ideas: Reform and Resistance in the American University, by Louis Menand (Norton, 176 pp., $24.95)

The ‘Top Ten’ Moments in Final Four History

By James Piereson March 30, 2009

After two weeks of March Madness, Final Four weekend is at hand — the annual playoff for the championship of Division 1 college basketball. The original field of 65 teams ...

Too Big to Fail, Once More

By James Piereson March 25, 2009

Treasury secretary Geithner and Fed chairman Bernanke have unveiled their new plan to give Treasury and the Federal Reserve new powers to regulate troubled non-bank financial institutions that are ...

Too Big to Fail?

By James Piereson March 23, 2009

Last September, following the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers, Treasury secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Reserve Board chairman Ben Bernanke learned that the American International Group was also insolvent. They feared ...

Where Did the AIG Bailout Funds Go?

By James Piereson March 9, 2009

The Wall Street Journal published an article in its weekend edition (March 7-8) on the American International Group bailout that deserves wider attention than it has so far gotten.    The U.S. government ...