Opportunity for All, Favoritism to None, a new book published this week by Heritage Action and the Heritage Foundation, is well worth your while. The book lays out a series of policy proposals from Heritage scholars — in areas ranging from labor, energy, and education to health care, regulation, welfare, and national security. Throughout, it argues that conservatives need to offer the country our own positive agenda rather than just our objections to the left’s misguided ideas. Going in the wrong direction more slowly is not a solution.

The book’s release was coupled with a policy conference in which Republican members of Congress and conservative policy experts outlined some promising ideas.

Heritage Action has gotten a lot of attention in recent years for its forceful tactical advice to congressional Republicans — some of which I’ve agreed with and some not. But it has gotten less attention for the important work it has been doing to push Republicans to develop and advance conservative solutions to the problems the country faces. That work is both essential and unifying, and this book offers a very useful summary of where it points.