December 22, 2003
Is Prayer Good for Your Health? A Critique of the Scientific Research
By Stuart M. Butler, Ph.D.; Harold G. Koenig, M.D.; Christina Puchalski, M.D.; Cynthia Cohen, Ph.D., J.D.; and Richard Sloan, Ph.D.
(Heritage Lecture #816)
Considerable scientific research analyzing the potential connection between religious practice and prayer and health, undertaken at some of our most prestigious universities around the country, ...
December 15, 2003
The Cost of Medicare: What the Future Holds
By Douglas Holtz-Eakin and Jeff Lemieux
(Heritage Lecture #815)
Despite media reports of a landmark reform, the new Medicare law seems to be just business as usual. It will take a long time to ...
December 9, 2003
Ethics, Corruption, and Economic Freedom
By Ana Isabel Eiras
(Heritage Lecture #813)
Corruption is a symptom, not the root, of the problem. The perceived problem is unethical or corrupt private-sector behavior; the real problem is government action ...
December 9, 2003
Taxes and Torts in Texas
By The Honorable Rick Perry
(Heritage Lecture #814)
There are fundamental choices that must be made in tough budgetary times: either raise taxes or control spending. Instead of raising taxes to support a ...
November 24, 2003
Strategy and the Idea of Freedom
By Douglas J. Feith, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy
(Heritage Lecture #OL1)
November 24, 2003
Preparing Responders to Respond: The Challenges to Emergency Preparedness in the 21st Century
By James Jay Carafano, Ph.D.
(Heritage Lecture #812)
Building a national system-of-systems emergency response system is critical to the nation's long-term security, but simply spending more money without an overarching systems architecture and ...
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 ...
November 20, 2003
Post-Conflict and Culture: Changing America's Military for 21st Century Missions
By James Jay Carafano, Ph.D.
(Heritage Lecture #810)
The military's role in warfighting is unquestioned, but its responsibilities in peace operations are both controversial and poorly understood. If the United States wishes to ...
November 19, 2003
Turning Back the Terrorist Threat: America's Unbreakable Commitment
By The Honorable George W. Bush
(Heritage Lecture #809)
Two years into the war on terrorism, America's will and resolve are being tested in Afghanistan and in Iraq. But with a strategy to see ...
November 14, 2003
U.S.-Taiwan Defense Relations in the Bush Administration
By Peter Brookes
(Heritage Lecture #808)
The United States expects the Taiwan armed forces to be able to fight efficiently and effectively should they be called upon to do so.
October 29, 2003
Important Shifts Coming in Asian Security
By Arthur Waldron
(Heritage Lecture #807)
In New England, where I grew up, late August is the month when even on the beach in the heat of the day, one will ...
October 28, 2003
A Strategy to Eliminate Wasteful Federal Spending
By The Honorable Sam Brownback
(Heritage Lecture #806)
Federal waste is a grave disservice to hardworking taxpayers across our great nation, and yet our governmental bureaucracies are riddled with it. Too many special ...
October 23, 2003
What Is True Medicare Reform?
By The Honorable Jon Kyl
(Heritage Lecture #805)
Adding an FEHBP-style private option to traditional fee-for-service Medicare could provide the flexibility, choices, and economics to produce both high quality and lower cost. The ...
October 20, 2003
Getting It Right in Hong Kong
By James R. Keith
(Heritage Lecture #803)
Hong Kong has discovered since 1997 that, like its competitors in the global marketplace, it cannot afford to rest on past achievements. It will be ...
October 20, 2003
The Necessity of Marriage
By The Honorable Rick Santorum
(Heritage Lecture #804)
Marriage is under assault, with high rates of divorce and out-of-wedlock births pummeling the traditional family. Given the high stakes for society, it is important ...
October 17, 2003
Meeting the Challenge of the War on Terrorism
By The Honorable Richard B. Cheney
(Heritage Lecture #802)
In the post-9/11 era, certain risks are unacceptable. On every front in the war on terror, the United States has cooperated with friends and allies, ...
October 16, 2003
Gulag: Understanding the Magnitude of What Happened
By Anne Applebaum
(Heritage Lecture #800)
Our understanding of what is happening now in the former Soviet Union is distorted by our misunderstanding of its history. If we do not study ...
October 15, 2003
Will the Conferees' Medicare Insurance Provisions Really Work?
By Robert Laszewski
(Heritage Lecture #801)
Should Medicare benefits be offered in the private sector or as part of traditional Medicare? If you listen to Washington-based insurance industry trade associations, you ...
October 10, 2003
What Mainstream Economic Models Tell Us About Wealth Taxes and Changing Tax Policy
By William W. Beach
(Heritage Lecture #799)
Analytical work using economic modeling has helped to disprove many misconceptions about President Bush's Economic Growth Package. Tax policy changes that might strike some as ...
October 7, 2003
Adjusting the Picture: Media Concentration or Diversity?
By James L. Gattuso, Benjamin Compaine, Robert Okun, Chris Core
(Heritage Lecture #798)
The Federal Communication Commission's decision to relax limits on television and radio ownership has sparked a wide debate on media concentration in America. Contrary to ...
October 2, 2003
WRAPP: One Country, Two Systems
By The Honorable Anson Chan
(Heritage Lecture #chan)
Since Sept. 11, Hong Kong has expanded its Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering ability to target terrorist financing and quickly implemented U.N. resolutions ...
September 24, 2003
What Will Medicare's Future Hold For Seniors and Taxpayers?
By Robert E. Moffit, Ph.D., Thomas R. Saving, Ph.D., Jeff Lemieux
(Heritage Lecture #797)
Projections of Medicare's future debt obligations are staggering. Even without any prescription drug benefits, current participants will be owed $13 trillion. New generations, whose taxes ...
August 20, 2003
Leading the Department of Homeland Security:
By Deputy Secretary Gordon England, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
(Heritage Lecture #796)
Today, we face a threat to the very foundations of our country—liberty and freedom, justice and law—unlike any fight we have ever encountered. 9/11 was ...
August 14, 2003
The U.S. Role in Peace Operations: Past, Perspective, and Prescriptions for the Future
By James Jay Carafano, Ph.D.
(Heritage Lecture #795)
America should also refrain from taking on major roles in peace enforcement operations. These activities offer substantially fewer risks than peacemaking, but that means many ...
June 27, 2003
The United States, the United Nations, and the Future of the Nation-State
By Roger Scruton
(Heritage Lecture #794)
It is certainly true that nothing has more effectively kept the peace in Europe than NATO; and even if NATO is now destined for destruction, ...
June 20, 2003
Women and the Transition to Democracy: Iraq, Afghanistan, and Beyond
By The Honorable Paula J. Dobriansky
(Heritage Lecture #793)
The women of Iraq have a critical role to play in the future revival of their society. They bring skills and knowledge that will be ...
June 16, 2003
Budgets and Threats: An Analysis of Strategic Priorities for Maritime Security
By James Jay Carafano, Ph.D.
(Heritage Lecture #791)
The Bush Administration's National Strategy for Homeland Security identified six critical mission areas to focus federal efforts on the objectives of preventing terrorist attacks, reducing ...
June 10, 2003
FEHB 101: What Medicare Reformers Should Know
By The Honorable Kay Coles James
(Heritage Lecture #792)
President George W. Bush's Medicare reform framework would guarantee all seniors access to a prescription drug benefit, as well as the freedom and opportunity to ...
June 2, 2003
Colombia: Key to Security in the Western Hemisphere
By General James T. Hill
(Heritage Lecture #790)
Colombia is on the very front line of the regional war against terrorism. Its people suffer daily from murder, bombings, and kidnappings. The conflict has ...
June 2, 2003
The Bush Presidency at Midterm: An Assessment
By Michael Barone, Fred Barnes, Carl Cannon, James Pfiffner
(Heritage Lecture #789)
The Heritage Foundation, before and after the 2000 presidential election, held a series of panels that were intended to help a new President make the ...
May 16, 2003
For a New Alliance
By Alain Madelin
(Heritage Lecture #788)
France should side with the United States to liberate the Iraqi people from the tyrannical regime of Saddam Hussein. France should not side with Saddam ...
May 8, 2003
Opening Markets in Latin America: The Dream of Prosperity That Never Comes True
By Ana I. Eiras
(Heritage Lecture #786)
An attempt to provide an answer to that question and to look at what can be done so that Latin countries can grow and prosper ...
May 7, 2003
Securing America's Critical Infrastructures: A Top Priority for the Department of Homeland Security
By Larry M. Wortzel, Ph.D.
(Heritage Lecture #787)
Today, the federal government and most Americans recognize that responsibility for protecting critical infrastructure from terrorism does not rest solely with any one level of ...
April 16, 2003
Pirates and Posses: The Battle over Digital Copyright
By James L. Gattuso, Bruce Mehlman, Alec French, Gary Shapiro, and James V. DeLong
(Heritage Lecture #785)
The question of content is paradoxical, in a way, in the digital age. The blessing of the digital age is that you can make an ...
April 10, 2003
The Anti-Terrorist Coalition in the Pacific
By Peter Brookes
(Heritage Lecture #781)
The fight against terrorism means greater multilateralism in our approach to security, and that is true even in Asia. Unlike Europe, which has NATO, the ...
April 10, 2003
Ten Principles for Combating Nuclear Proliferation
By Baker Spring
(Heritage Lecture #783)
The prospect of nuclear weapons in the hands of unpredictable rogue states and terrorist groups makes a damage limitation strategy one of the few viable ...
April 8, 2003
Deployment of U.S. Forces in Europe
By The Honorable Kay Bailey Hutchison
(Heritage Lecture #782)
Our mission today is not only to maintain a military presence, but also to support contingencies where we have no permanent bases. Operation Iraqi Freedom ...
March 28, 2003
Beyond the Middle East: In Search of Energy Security
By The Honorable Conrad Burns
(Heritage Lecture #780)
America can no longer continue with business as usual on foreign oil imports, the economic and political benefits of using our own OCS gas resources ...
March 19, 2003
Looking for Allies: Magnet and Wedge in Western Civilization
By Balint Vazsonyi
(Heritage Lecture #779)
As we sort through the seeming wreckage of Transatlantic relations that has resulted from recent events, Balint Vazsonyi's speech will continue to be a valuable ...
March 14, 2003
Putting the Teaching of American History and Civics Back into Our Classrooms
By The Honorable Lamar Alexander
(Heritage Lecture #784)
Senator Alexander has introduced a proposal that would put the teaching of American history and civics back in our schools so our children can grow ...
March 9, 2003
Changing Events on the Korean Peninsula
By The Honorable Richard Lugar
(Heritage Lecture #bclee9)
Ninth Annual B.C. Lee Lecture - Let me talk about Asia, and very specifically the Korean Peninsula, because I believe that this topic centers much ...
February 20, 2003
Economic Freedom: The Path to African Prosperity
By Brett D. Schaefer
(Heritage Lecture #778)
Removing barriers to trade is one of the most important actions that developed countries can take to aid development in poor nations and should be ...
February 10, 2003
European Arrogance and Weakness Dictate Coalitions of the Willing
By John C. Hulsman, Ph.D.
(Heritage Lecture #777)
If Europe is more about diversity than uniformity, if the concept of a unified "Europe" has yet to really exist, then a general American transatlantic ...
February 3, 2003
Reforming Social Security: A Change in the Climate of Opinion
By William G. Shipman
(Heritage Lecture #776)
One solution to the significant problem of recordkeeping, for example, would be to structure investment options, not all of which require timely and detailed contribution ...
February 3, 2003
The Challenges and Imperatives in Taiwan's Defense
By Peter Brookes
(Heritage Lecture #775)
Continuing to help Taiwan deter China's use of force and maintain a robust defense capability is in America's interest, Taiwan's interest, and the best interest ...
January 24, 2003
Does the U.S. Face a Crisis in Asia?
By The Honorable Sam Brownback
(Heritage Lecture #774)
It has been made clear to us that our foreign policy can no longer afford to narrowly focus on short-term benefits. For our nation's long-term ...
January 17, 2003
The Shape of Anti-Terrorist Coalitions in Southeast Asia
By Dana Robert Dillon
(Heritage Lecture #773)
There are multiple groupings in the Southeast Asia region that claim an anti-terrorist goal, but the strategies used by the coalitions determine whether or not ...
January 9, 2003
WRAPP: U.S. Foreign Policy
By U.S. Senator Sam Brownback
(Heritage Lecture #brownback)
The United States is currently faced with serious challenges in
opposite corners of the globe. In Iraq, Saddam Hussein continues to
defy the international community; and in ...
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