PUBLICATIONS BY Lee Edwards, Ph.D.
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2009 Research
April 27, 2009
The End of Conservatism?
By Lee Edwards, Ph.D.
(Heritage Lecture #1120)
Through the power and successful political application of its ideas, the conservative movement became a dominant player in America’s political and economic realms. With the right leadership, much of the frustration and uncertainty that now characterize the conservative movement will again fade away as they did when Robert Taft, Barry Goldwater, Ronald Reagan, and Newt Gingrich were the movement’s acknowledged leaders.
2007 Research
December 17, 2007
The Power of Words: Reflections on 1,000 Heritage Lectures, 1980–2007
By Lee Edwards, Ph.D.
(Heritage Lecture #1001)
Believing that words are "the essential units on which a civilization rests," The Heritage Foundation has provided a forum for lectures by public officials, scholars, and policy experts on the leading issues of the day: a pantheon of the most influential conservatives in America in the last part of the 20th century and the first decade of the 21st.
January 22, 2007
The Conservative Consensus: Frank Meyer, Barry Goldwater, and the Politics of Fusionism
By Lee Edwards, Ph.D.
(First Principles #8)
Frank Meyer, the intellectual father of fusionism, and Barry Goldwater, the first political apostle of fusionism, sought to unite, not divide, all conservatives. Their goal was a national movement guided by constitutional principles of ordered liberty. The solution for the American conservative movement in these challenging times is not a new but a renewed fusionism.
2006 Research
September 26, 2006
Is Communism Dead?
By Lee Edwards, Ph.D., Frank Calzon, Paul Goble, Harry Wu
(Heritage Lecture #967)
Today, 50 years after Stalin died, the remaining Communist dictatorships such as Belarus, Burma, China, Cuba, and North Korea perpetuate the Leninist legacy of fear and intimidation.
2003 Research
November 21, 2003
The Origins of the Modern American Conservative Movement
By Lee Edwards, Ph.D.
(Heritage Lecture #811)
The impact of modern conservatism has been profound: for example, renewed public skepticism about Big Government; lower rates of violent crime and child poverty thanks to conservative initiatives like welfare reform; and, in the wake of 9/11, a prudential internationalism. Through the power of its ideas and the unceasing dissemination and application of those ideas, the conservative movement has become a major, and often the dominant, player in the political and economic realms of America.
2001 Research
April 02, 2001
Whittaker Chambers: Man of Courage and Faith
By Lee Edwards, Ph.D.
(Executive Memorandum #735)
Whittaker Chambers, a veteran Soviet spy who became, in William F. Buckley Jr.'s words, "the most important American defector from Communism." This April marks the 100th anniversary of Chambers' birth.
2009 Commentary
May 18, 2009
Is this the end of conservatism as we know it?
By Lee Edwards
America's modern conservative movement began as a Remnant with Albert Jay Nock and Frank Chodorov, grew into an intellectual movement with Friedrich Hayek, Richard Weaver, and Russell Kirk, blossomed into a political movement with William F. Buckley Jr. and Barry Goldwater, burst into full bloom as a governing movement with Ronald Reagan and the Heritage-ACU-YAF axis, succumbed to hubris with Newt Gingrich and Tom DeLay, imploded under George W. Bush and the neoconservatives, and is now wondering whether it is headed for the ash heap of history.
January 01, 2009
1989: The Year of Miracles
By Lee Edwards
It was a year of triumph and tragedy.
It was the year the Berlin Wall fell -- and joyful Berliners drank champagne and danced on top of the Brandenburg Gate.
It was the year that Vaclav Havel was jailed in February for participating in human rights protests and was elected president of Czechoslovakia in December.
It was the year that the once-outlawed trade union Solidarity won an overwhelming victory in Poland -- the Soviet bloc’s first free elections in 40 years.
2008 Commentary
August 06, 2008
No Illusions
By Lee Edwards
Alexander Solzhenitsyn is best known for his epic trilogy The Gulag Archipelago, which revealed to the world the full scope of the Soviet Union’s infamous forced labor camp system in which millions died but not in vain. Solzhenitsyn’s documentation of their lives and deaths set in motion the forces that ultimately led to the collapse of Communism and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.
July 16, 2008
Captive Nations Week: Never Forget
By Lee Edwards
Nearly two decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of communism in Eastern and Central Europe, five nations remain “captive” to communism -- China, Cuba, North Korea, Vietnam and Laos.
February 29, 2008
Bill Buckley: The Founder of the Movement
By Lee Edwards, Ph.D.
Bill Buckley was the founder of the modern conservative movement. Others clearly made major contributions -- Russell Kirk, Milton Friedman, Barry Goldwater, Ronald Reagan of course -- but in the 1950s and 1960s Buckley by his words and his actions forced the reigning Liberal Establishment to acknowledge that a major new political force had emerged in America.
2007 Commentary
June 13, 2007
The Making of a Memorial
By Lee Edwards
In January 1990, two months after the Berlin Wall fell, I was discussing world politics over brunch with my wife, Anne, and daughter Elizabeth.
June 12, 2007
Goddess of Democracy pays tribute to a great sacrifice
By Lee Edwards, Ph.D.
At a busy intersection on Capitol Hill in Washington, a great wrong is being righted. In the world's most powerful city, a memorial to the victims of an evil ideology is being unveiled. It's high time.
February 01, 2007
A river and a church steeled Reagan for Soviet challenge
By Lee Edwards, Ph.D.
Paul Kengor, “The Crusader: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of Communism,” New York: Regan (Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers) $29.95, 402 pages.
2006 Commentary
November 18, 2006
Conservative Movement Will Survive GOP Defeat
By Lee Edwards, Ph.D.
A movement that survived Robert Taft’s untimely death in 1953, the Senate censure of Joseph McCarthy in 1954, Barry Goldwater’s crushing defeat in 1964, Ronald Reagan’s failure to win the 1976 Republican presidential nomination, the Iran-contra scandal of 1986, and Newt Gingrich’s sudden fall from grace in 1998 can easily outlive the 2006 elections.
April 02, 2006
Where in the World Is America Going?
By Lee Edwards, Ph.D.
Since the essence of conservatism is to apply the wisdom, experience and revealed truths of the past to the problems of today, I thought it would be helpful for our discussion to consider the wisdom and experience of four prominent conservatives in the field of U.S. foreign policy. The members of the illustrious quartet are Walter Judd, Robert A. Taft, Barry Goldwater, and Ronald Reagan.
2005 Commentary
December 21, 2005
Another "Forgotten War"
By Lee Edwards, Ph.D.
We'd all like it to be, but the war's not over. And occasionally, it still erupts in violence. No, not the war in Iraq. The Cold War between western freedom and communist tyranny.
December 01, 2005
Barry Goldwater: The Most Consequential Loser
By Lee Edwards, Ph.D.
Barry Goldwater was the most consequential loser in modern presidential politics.
July 20, 2005
Captive Nations Week
By Lee Edwards, Ph.D.
A true hero of the Cold War is being honored in Washington, D.C., this week: Lev E. Dobriansky.
June 07, 2005
Lyndon Johnson's Watergate
By Lee Edwards, Ph.D.
Here are three examples of a presidential abuse of power for political purposes that constitute an even graver offense than Watergate.
June 03, 2005
The Reagan Legacy
By Lee Edwards, Ph.D.
It's been one year since the death of Ronald Reagan, whose standing as a president grows steadily.
April 04, 2005
John Paul II: Winning the Cold War
By Lee Edwards, Ph.D.
It's been less than a year since Ronald Reagan "slipped the surly bonds of earth ? to touch the face of God," and now John Paul II has joined him.
2004 Commentary
September 17, 2004
Bringing Justice to the People - Edwards
By Lee Edwards, Ph.D.
As we celebrate the 217th anniversary of the signing of the U.S. Constitution, it's easy to forget how revolutionary its underlining principles really were.
June 07, 2004
The Age of Reagan
By Lee Edwards, Ph.D.
The Age of Reagan
June 07, 2004
No Accidental Leader
By Lee Edwards, Ph.D.
No Accidental Leader
May 14, 2004
China's Unclean Bill of Health
By Lee Edwards and John Tkacik
Taiwan's participation in the WHO will be a major topic at the World Health Assembly (WHA) in Geneva on May 17-22, 2004. The United States should take the lead in supporting Taiwan's participation in the WHO and other international bodies.
March 08, 2004
Seoul Allies
By Lee Edwards, Ph.D.
Seoul Allies
2002 Commentary
November 15, 2002
ed111502: Goodbye to 2000
By Lee Edwards, Ph.D.
ed111502: Goodbye to 2000
January 25, 2002
Rendezvous with History
By Lee Edwards, Ph.D.
Rendezvous with History
2001 Commentary
September 18, 2001
A Red, White, and Blue Nation
By Lee Edwards, Ph.D.
A Red, White, and Blue Nation
August 10, 2001
Communism: A Return to Berlin?
By Lee Edwards, Ph.D.
Communism: A Return to Berlin?
April 06, 2001
A Man of Courage and Faith
By Lee Edwards, Ph.D.
A Man of Courage and Faith
February 02, 2001
ED020201a: The Real Ronald Reagan
By Lee Edwards, Ph.D.
ED020201a: The Real Ronald Reagan
February 02, 2001
ED020201: The Real Ronald Reagan
By Lee Edwards, Ph.D.
ED020201: The Real Ronald Reagan
February 02, 2001
ED020201: The Real Ronald Reagan
By Lee Edwards, Ph.D.
ED020201: The Real Ronald Reagan
January 31, 2001
ED013101a: Think Tanks and Presidents
By Lee Edwards, Ph.D.
ED013101a: Think Tanks and Presidents
1999 Commentary
October 12, 1999
'Dutch': Less Than Meets the Eye
By Lee Edwards, Ph.D.
'Dutch': Less Than Meets the Eye
July 4, 2009
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