Heritage Foundation Leadership for America

November 24, 1999
What We Can Learn from Margaret Thatcher
By Sir Rhodes Boyson and Antonio Martino
(Heritage Lecture #650)
Margaret Thatcher has her place in world as well as British history.

November 19, 1999
The Crisis of the Sovereign State and the "Privatization" of Defense and Foreign Affairs
By Jaime Nogueira Pinto
(Heritage Lecture #649)
The sovereign state emerged in Europe as a new and strong political entity with the centralized monarchies of England, Spain, France, and Portugal.

November 10, 1999
A Year's Worth of Knowledge in a Year's Time
By The Honorable Jeb Bush
(Heritage Lecture #648)
In Florida, only 52 percent of young people graduate from high school. Think of that. It's a sad number.

November 3, 1999
A High Price Prescription: Clinton's Medicare Drug Proposal
By Dr. Gail Wilensky, Dr. Howard Cohen, & Dwight Bartlet
(Heritage Lecture #647)
Panel discussion on the Clinton Administration's Medicare prescription drug initiative.

October 15, 1999
How the Medicare Bureaucracy Threatens Patient Privacy
By Paul Appelbaum, M.D., Kent Masterson Brown, Jim Pyles, and Ronald Welch
(Heritage Lecture #646)
The HCFA proposed a rule to force almost 10,000 home health-care agencies around the country to report sensitive personal information on patients.

September 29, 1999
Cutting Taxes and Other Great Ideas for Congress from an Arkansas Governor
By The Honorable Mike Huckabee
(Heritage Lecture #645)
Many of the solutions to the problems facing our country can be found working at the state and local levels.

August 6, 1999
The Necessity of Truth
By Rick Santorum
(Heritage Lecture #643)
At the same time that Americans confound secularist predictions about God's imminent demise, we are increasingly reluctant to make critical moral distinctions.

July 30, 1999
Bleak Harvest: Will Congress Renege on 1996 "Freedom to Farm" Reforms?
By Kevin McNew and John E. Frydenlund
(Heritage Lecture #644)
For some 60 years, U.S. farm policy has attempted to provide income stability and support to U.S. farmers.

July 28, 1999
The Baltic Quest for Security: Euro-Atlantic Integration
By Dr. Ariel Cohen, His Excellency Dr. Valdis Birkavs, His Excellency Toomas Hendrik Ilves, and His Excellency Algirdas Saudargas
(Heritage Lecture #641)
The rebirth of Baltic independence in the wake of the Soviet collapse is one of the miracles of our time.

July 27, 1999
Rescuing Abused Children: Can Congress Help Our Kids?
By Tom DeLay
(Heritage Lecture #642)
The simple fact is that child welfare has been a one-party issue for too long.

July 9, 1999
A Foreign Policy Vision for the Next American Century
By The Honorable Kay Bailey Hutchison
(Heritage Lecture #639)
The Heritage Foundation has become one of the Permanent Things on the public policy landscape, and America is better for it.

July 6, 1999
The U.S.--China Relationship: Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction
By The Honorable Barbara Hackman Franklin
(Heritage Lecture #638)
If the most imaginative fiction writer had set about writing a script for the U.S.-China relationship from June 1998 until June 1999, he or she ...

June 16, 1999
How to Expand Health Care Choice and Improve Access for Working Families
By Daniel H. Johnson, Jr., M.D.
(Heritage Lecture #640)
Let's be clear about our objectives in this national debate: Every American should have access to affordable health insurance coverage.

June 15, 1999
Future Forces: Ten Trends That Will Shape American Politics and Policies in 2000 and Beyond
By Donald Lambro
(Heritage Lecture #637)
In any event, in today's modem-paced, speed-of-light, nanosecond world, this year's forecasts could be next year's stupidities.

May 12, 1999
Moral Imagination, Humane Letters, and the Renewal of Society
By Vigen Guroian, Ph.D.
(Heritage Lecture #636)
Russell Kirk warned that late liberalism is transmuting America into the egalitarian and anti-human society relished by Robert Louis Stevenson's four reformers.

May 11, 1999
Europe's "New" Third Way
By Christian Watrin, Ph.D.
(Heritage Lecture #634)
Are the "new" social democratic parties in Europe simply disguised libertarians, still calling themselves "socialist" but basically supporting neoliberal ideas?

May 6, 1999
Can Liberals and Conservatives Agree on Health Care Reform?
By The Honorable Jim McDermott and The Honorable James Rogan
(Heritage Lecture #635)
There are now almost 44 million uninsured people in this country--an increase of more than 5 million since 1993.

May 3, 1999
Future Challenges to Secure Democracy in Latin America
By The Honorable Mike DeWine
(Heritage Lecture #633)
When one thinks about Latin America, the threat of attack using weapons of mass destruction does not ordinarily come to mind.

March 31, 1999
Following the Wrong Compass: The True State of the Union
By Balint Vazsonyi
(Heritage Lecture #631)
Much is said about the ways America was meant to be, and what the Founders had in mind.

February 1, 1999
The Growing Ballistic Missile Threat: How Much, How Soon, and How Dangerous?
By The Hon. Donald Rumsfeld et. al.
(Heritage Lecture #632)
We did look at the ballistic missile threat to the United States, not so much the threat to U.S. forces overseas or to allies and ...

January 21, 1999
The Duty to Lead: America's National Security Imperative
By The Hon. Dan Quayle
(Heritage Lecture #630)
The last time America had an impeached President, back in 1868, it didn't have the slightest effect beyond our shores.

January 8, 1999
Who Lost Russia?
By Kim R. Holmes, Ph.D., Hon. Caspar W. Weinberger, Hon. R. James Woolsey, and Ariel Cohen, Ph.D.
(Heritage Lecture #629)
There is plenty of blame to go around for Russia's troubles, and most of it, in my opinion, lies with Russia.