December 21, 2004
The Evolution of the U.S.–Japan Alliance and Future Prospects
By Balbina Y. Hwang
(Heritage Lecture #861)
During the next four years, the United States and Japan will face one of the most critical foreign policy challenges of this decade together—the North ...
December 20, 2004
Southeast Asia and the Brotherhood of Terrorism
By Dana R. Dillon
(Heritage Lecture #860)
To better contain the Southeast Asian brotherhood of terrorism, the international community should initiate
the process to place all of Southeast Asia's terrorist brotherhood on ...
December 20, 2004
Multilateral Economic Development Efforts in Sub-Saharan Africa
By Brett D. Schaefer
(Heritage Lecture #858)
Despite development assistance (often at extremely subsidized interest rates and generous repayment schedules), sub-Saharan Africa has performed dismally on various economic indicators. Developing countries must ...
December 17, 2004
Will Congress Contain Medicare's Exploding Costs?
By Robert E. Moffit, Ph.D., Joseph R. Antos, Ph.D., Jeff Lemieux, and Daniel L. Crippen, Ph.D.
(Heritage Lecture #857)
To develop true Medicare reform, the Administration and Congress needs a clearer set of illness-specific, beneficiary-level data-particularly for the oldest and sickest Medicare patients. This ...
December 14, 2004
The Road to Hemispheric Security
By Stephen Johnson
(Heritage Lecture #859)
By and large, countries of this hemisphere have made slow and steady progress against terrorism, drug trafficking, transnational crime, and even gangs. While taking advantage ...
December 14, 2004
El Camino hacia la Seguridad Hemisférica
By Stephen Johnson
(Heritage Lecture #859)
Evitar el peligro es un instinto de supervivencia que permite a personas como ustedes y yo marchar adelante en nuestras vidas. La necesidad de seguridad ...
November 10, 2004
The Top Ten Things People Believe About Canadian Health Care, But Shouldn't
By Brian Lee Crowley
(Heritage Lecture #856)
There exist many indefensible myths about the Canadian single-payer health care system. Among these myths are: that Canada has the best health care system in ...
November 8, 2004
Jihadist Strategies in the War on Terrorism
By Mary R. Habeck, Ph.D.
(Heritage Lecture #855)
Generally, Islamic terrorists' military strategies are based on something they call the "Method of Mohammad." These strategies attempt to mirror Mohammad's life and recreate today ...
November 1, 2004
Principles Count
By The Honorable Tom Feeney
(Heritage Lecture #854)
Principle-centered leadership promotes a candid relationship between elected officials and their constituents. Leaders of any political persuasion can produce a great product by having a ...
October 26, 2004
Broadband by 2007: A Look at the President's Internet Initiative
By James L. Gattuso, John M. Kneuer, David McIntosh, Harold Furchtgott-Roth, and Peter Pitsch
(Heritage Lecture #852)
The Bush Administration has set a national goal for the spread of broadband communications by the year 2007. The broad objective is to create universal ...
October 19, 2004
Defense Transformation and the New Allies
By Helle C. Dale
(Heritage Lecture #853)
Addressing the technological gap between the United States and its new and necessary allies will be one of the most important strategic challenges we face ...
September 30, 2004
Information Oversight: Practical Lessons from Foreign Intelligence
By Joel F. Brenner
(Heritage Lecture #851)
The National Security Agency has years of practical experience in the supervision of complex systems for gathering and protecting information. With the growing electronic data ...
August 24, 2004
Why It's Time for Faith-Based Health Plans
By Phyllis Berry Myers, Richard Swenson, M.D., Michael O'Dea, and Robert E. Moffit, Ph.D.
(Heritage Lecture #850)
Most people today do not really know what is in their health plans-particularly when it comes to issues of medical ethics, including abortion. A change ...
August 12, 2004
A Vision For Health System Change
By Robert E. Moffit, Ph.D., Daniel "Stormy" Johnson, M.D., Stuart M. Butler, Ph.D., Stan Dorn, J.D., John Goodman, Ph.D., and Kenneth Thorpe, Ph.D.
(Heritage Lecture #848)
From a policy standpoint, health coverage assistance should be focused on those who need it most; insurance and coverage choices should not be dependent upon ...
August 10, 2004
Homeland Security Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties: A One-Year Review
By Daniel W. Sutherland
(Heritage Lecture #849)
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) contains its own Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties (CRCL). CRCL advises senior DHS leadership on issues relating ...
August 2, 2004
Conservative Principles, Political Reality, and the War on Terrorism
By Larry M. Wortzel, Ph. D.
(Heritage Lecture #847)
President Bush got it right by declaring war on al-Qaeda after September 11. Just as corporations have to wrestle with globalization, which challenges established notions ...
July 30, 2004
The Medicare Drug Discount Card: First Phase of a Market Revolution?
By Grace-Marie Turner and Joseph R. Antos, Ph.D.
(Heritage Lecture #846)
The Medicare prescription drug discount card introduces incentives for consumer choice and genuine price competition into the Medicare program. The program is designed to help ...
July 21, 2004
The Case for Intelligence Reform: A Primer on Strategic Intelligence and Terrorism from the 1970s to Today
By James Jay Carafano, Ph.D.
(Heritage Lecture #845)
To combat future terrorism, Congress should: (1) undertake responsible intelligence reform, focusing on ways to reduce bureaucracy, institutionalize effective information sharing, and improve the capacity ...
July 13, 2004
Post-Conflict Operations from Europe to Iraq
By James Jay Carafano, Ph.D.
(Heritage Lecture #844)
The U.S. military and its allies were poorly prepared to undertake post-conflict operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. If the U.S. and its allies wish to ...
June 21, 2004
Why Limit Government?
By Lawrence W. Reed
(Heritage Lecture #843)
Government should be limited to certain minimal, but critical, functions in order to maximize opportunity, enterprise, and creativity. Those seeking to limit government must show ...
June 17, 2004
Religious Faith and Economic Growth: What Matters Most—Belief or Belonging?
By Robert Barro, Ph.D., and Joshua Mitchell, Ph.D.
(Heritage Lecture #841)
There is evidence of a pattern whereby more economic development and higher per capita income is associated with lower religiosity. Communist regimes have a strong ...
June 16, 2004
U.N. Requires Fundamental Reforms
By Brett D. Schaefer
(Heritage Lecture #842)
The United Nations has credibility problems that can only be overcome through greater transparency, accountability, and reform of its membership. Until these issues are addressed, ...
June 7, 2004
Renewing Our Commitment to Limited Government
By The Honorable Mike Pence
(Heritage Lecture #839)
The conservative movement has veered off course into big government republicanism—as witnessed by the passage of laws such as "No Child Left Behind" and the ...
June 7, 2004
The Role of the Department of Homeland Security Overseas
By The Honorable Cresencio Arcos
(Heritage Lecture #840)
The U.S. has to take actions far away from its shores and borders in order to ensure that the systems that connect it with the ...
May 24, 2004
Improving U.S. Public Diplomacy Toward the Middle East
By Stephen C. Johnson
(Heritage Lecture #838)
Official efforts to reorganize U.S. public diplomacy functions have yet to gain traction. The U.S. lacks clear communications objectives in the Middle East. Improving inter-agency ...
May 24, 2004
Grading Progress on Homeland Security: Before and After 9/11
By The Honorable Mitt Romney and Chief Sam Gonzalez
(Heritage Lecture #837)
In dealing with the nation's homeland security needs, first response continues to be important, but detection and protection also must be emphasized a great deal ...
May 18, 2004
Labor Regulation in the 21st Century Economy
By Steven J. Law
(Heritage Lecture #836)
American workers deserve, instead of false information and partisan attacks, workplace regulations that reflect the realities of the 21st century economy and protect their rights ...
May 11, 2004
Churchill: Forging an Alliance for Freedom
By Allen Packwood
(Heritage Lecture #835)
Winston Churchill's pro-American sentiment was honed during World War I; came to fruition during his wartime correspondence with President Franklin D. Roosevelt; and was furthered ...
May 5, 2004
Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties in Wartime
By The Honorable Frank J. Williams
(Heritage Lecture #834)
During the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln declared martial law and authorized military tribunals to try terrorists because they could act quickly, gather intelligence through interrogation, ...
May 4, 2004
Threats and Opportunities in the World
By The Honorable Kim R. Holmes, Ph.D.
(Heritage Lecture #833)
America must be vigilant against the physical threats posed by terrorists, but also against the moral and political ones. The war on terrorism is as ...
April 30, 2004
The Intellectual Origins of Ronald Reagan's Faith
By Paul Kengor, Ph.D.
(Heritage Lecture #832)
History has aptly acknowledged Ronald Reagan's legendary sense of conviction. Americans never had to struggle to figure out where this man stood on any particular ...
April 30, 2004
Thinking About the Imperatives of Defense Transformation
By The Honorable Paul Wolfowitz
(Heritage Lecture #831)
We have continued to transform America's defense, and the resulting changes involve a full range of military capabilities: hardware, doctrine, communications, organization, and training. We ...
April 19, 2004
President Bush's Global Nonproliferation Policy: Seven More Proposals
By Henry Sokolski
(Heritage Lecture #829)
The Bush Administration's new nonproliferation proposals would strengthen international efforts to interdict nuclear shipments; reduce accessibility to nuclear weapons-usable materials; streamline procedures at the International ...
April 5, 2004
The Taiwan Relations Act at 25
By The Honorable Sam Brownback
(Heritage Lecture #828)
The Taiwan Relations Act has endured the many changes in Taiwan and China since the Cold War and remains the foundation for U.S. policy. Many ...
April 1, 2004
What's Really Happening with Jobs and Outsourcing?
By Alison Acosta Fraser
(Heritage Lecture #827)
Many proposed "solutions" to outsourcing and the current false perception of job loss are forms of trade isolationism that will not work, but policies like ...
March 31, 2004
Australia's Continuing Role in the War on Terrorism
By the Honorable Michael Thawley
(Heritage Lecture #830)
Defeating terrorism is a collective good and therefore should be a collective responsibility: in military, law enforcement, intelligence, denying finance to terrorists, preventing proliferation of ...
March 30, 2004
A Strategy to Democratize Belarus
By Ariel Cohen, Ph.D.
(Heritage Lecture #826)
Belarus, like Ukraine and Moldova, has not fully completed its transition from the Soviet system to democratic capitalism. As the October 2004 parliamentary elections are ...
March 24, 2004
Iraq: One Year Later
By James Phillips
(Heritage Lecture #825)
One year after the onset of the war in Iraq, the United States, its allies, and the Iraqi people are better off, and the ouster ...
March 17, 2004
Strategy and Security in the Information Age: Grading Progress in America's War on Terrorism
By James Jay Carafano, Ph.D.
(Heritage Lecture #824)
Winning a war requires both historical perspective and cautious prophecy. The war on terrorism can be won by combining strong leadership, an engaged citizenry, and ...
February 25, 2004
India & Pakistan: Vision of the Future: Peace on the Horizon
By U.S. Congressman Joe Wilson, presented at WRAPP
(Heritage Lecture #wilson)
Asia clearly presents America with unique challenges like no other region in the world. One-half of all the world's population can be found in Asia, ...
February 24, 2004
Promoting Economic Freedom at the United Nations
By The Honorable Kim R. Holmes
(Heritage Lecture #823)
The U.N.'s credibility and effectiveness in reducing poverty and promoting economic development are at stake, but what really matters are the lives of millions around ...
February 18, 2004
Four Essential Principles for Education Success
By Thomas A. Hinton
(Heritage Lecture #822)
In education, it is essential to remember that the goal is success, not process. In addition, reform and education innovation must be addressed in the ...
February 6, 2004
Two Congressmen Look at "One China"
By The Honorable Robert E. Andrews and The Honorable Steve Chabot
(Heritage Lecture #821)
America can watch China evolve toward a bellicose adversary that recreates the Cold War of the 1950s and 1960s, or it can create conditions under ...
February 3, 2004
Thoughts on Iraq and the War on Terrorism
By William J. Bennett
(Heritage Lecture #819)
On the issue that matters most (America's survival, the civilized world's survival, the spread of democracy, and the war against terrorism), President Bush is right ...
February 2, 2004
A Time for Choice
By The Honorable Rod Paige
(Heritage Lecture #820)
The new D.C. Choice Incentive Program launches a five-year, federally funded program to provide close to 2,000 low-income students in the District of Columbia with ...
January 15, 2004
The Perils of the Precautionary Principle: Lessons from the American and European Experience
By John D. Graham, Ph.D.
(Heritage Lecture #818)
There are multiple approaches to implementing precaution in risk management, but no such thing as a universal "precautionary principle." A subjective concept such as the ...
January 13, 2004
Regaining America's Voice Overseas: A Conference on U.S. Public Diplomacy
By Edwin J. Feulner, Ph.D. et al.
(Heritage Lecture #817)
That America has unilaterally disarmed itself of the weapons of ideological warfare is all the more astonishing in light of the fact that victory in ...
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