Featured Nancy Kegan Smith Featured Nancy Kegan Smith

The Impact of the 1984 First Ladies Conference Convened by Betty Ford and Rosalynn Carter

The First Ladies Association for Research and Education, FLARE, held it first national conference entitled, “In Celebration of Betty Ford’s 50th Anniversary as First Lady and Betty Ford’s 40th Anniversary of her historic 1984 first ladies conference” on April 26, 2024, at the Gerald R. Ford Museum in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

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Featured Jeffery Tyler Syck Featured Jeffery Tyler Syck

A Proper Sense of History

Students today often view history as a fascinating but largely useless subject – the sort of thing you study for pleasure but not the most practical of activities.

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Featured Richard Gunderman Featured Richard Gunderman

Learning from Pandemics

The recent COVID-19 pandemic has not generated the kind of self-critical examination that we need to undertake if we are to avoid repeating mistakes in the future.

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Featured Louis Markos Featured Louis Markos

In Defense of Private Property and Tradition

Rousseau’s seemingly optimistic theory that man is good in nature (the “noble savage”) but is corrupted by private property and by traditional social, political, and ecclesiastical institutions proved disastrous, leading to the irrational and deadly utopianism of the French Revolution.

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Featured Sarah Reardon Featured Sarah Reardon

In Search of Ordinary Patriotism

We are winding toward a season in America in which our thoughts about our country must come to bear upon our decisions, and we must, whatever our convictions about modern democracy, consider how we should best use our constitutional rights.

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