Lecture posted May 23, 2013 by Honorable Mike Lee
What Conservatives Are For
I want to offer my best wishes to all of you as The Heritage Foundation embarks on an exciting new era. I also just want to make clear that when I spent my first year in the Senate joking that Jim DeMint should run for President—this isn’t what I had in mind!
The thing that makes Jim DeMint a great leader is the same thing that has always made people like [Heritage Vice…
Lecture posted May 22, 2013 by Mark B. Schneider
Does North Korea Have a Missile-Deliverable Nuclear Weapon?
A recent unclassified Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) report, revealed by Congressman Doug Lamborn (R–CO) on April 11, 2013, stated, “DIA assesses with moderate confidence the North currently has nuclear weapons capable of delivery by ballistic missiles.”[1] This is disturbing news.
The North Korean regime is one of the most fanatic, paranoid, and militaristic…
Lecture posted May 1, 2013 by Honorable Ed Royce
The Enduring Legacy of America’s Commitment to Asia
EDWIN J. FEULNER: I’m Ed Feulner. For the next 13 days, I am the president of The Heritage Foundation. I’m delighted to have with us this morning my successor as the new president of The Heritage Foundation, Senator Jim DeMint. Senator, we are very happy that you are able to join us this morning for our 16th annual B.C. Lee Lecture.
It’s good to see so many friends here,…
Lecture posted April 1, 2013 by Franklin L. Lavin
Four Issues Facing China
It’s a delight to be here. I enjoy coming by and seeing friends, making new friends, and sharing ideas and insight. I have a terrific job—not just the job itself, which is interesting, but the fact that it’s a China-oriented job, and that it allows me, every time I visit China, to learn and to see and to chat with people. It was certainly interesting to do that in a…
Lecture posted March 5, 2013 by Luke Coffey
Future of Europe: Political and Economic Realities Facing the European Union
I would like to begin by thanking the CATO Institute for hosting this event and for inviting me to participate. I am going to offer an alternative view of Europe today. I am a pro-states-rights American. I believe that power should be shifted to, and decisions should be made at, the lowest level closest to those most affected. My views on Europe are shaped first and…
Lecture posted February 25, 2013 by Edmund F. Haislmaier
The Complexities of Providing Health Insurance
Discussions of the ethics of health care financing typically focus on issues of equity and social justice. Yet such discussions are more often about means than ends. Contrary to the impression given by occasionally heated political rhetoric, there, in fact, exists a broad consensus across the political spectrum that modern societies have an obligation to ensure that all…
Lecture on February 14, 2013
The 10th Anniversary of the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty Withdrawal
Kim R. Holmes, PhD
Vice President of Foreign and Defense Policy Studies and Director of the Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for International Studies at The Heritage Foundation
Looking around the room, I see as many people in the audience who were involved in overturning the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty as are up here on stage. I appreciate all of you…
Lecture posted February 14, 2013 by The Honorable Anthony M. Kennedy
The Constitution and Its Promise
EDWIN MEESE III: The Heritage Foundation’s Preserve the Constitution series promotes the protection of individual liberty, property rights, free enterprise, and the constitutional limits on government, and we’ve been able to feature some of the nation’s most respected judges, legal scholars, lawyers, and policy analysts.
The marquee event in this series is tonight’s…
Lecture posted February 4, 2013 by Peter C. Hansen
Unleashing the U.S. Investor in Africa: A Critique of U.S. Policy Toward the Continent
At a May 2011 conference on the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) held at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Assistant Secretary of State Johnnie Carson spoke about ways to increase trade between the U.S. and Africa. His take on AGOA was characteristically interesting and thoughtful. One point he made, however, exposed a fundamental problem…
Lecture posted November 2, 2012 by The Honorable Tony Abbott
The Australia–U.S. Alliance and Leadership in the Asia–Pacific
Abstract
The Administration has indicated that it plans to “pivot” America’s security focus to Asia. The Administration’s plans to downsize the U.S. military, however, can only mean a reduced U.S. presence globally and greater strain on our forces and equipment wherever they are deployed. Allies like Australia are trying to understand the implications for the…
Lecture posted October 10, 2012 by The Honorable Alice M. Batchelder
Suppose Joseph Story Had Been Right and Brutus Had Been Wrong
Abstract: Brutus, one of the loose-knit group of Anti-Federalists who opposed the adoption of the Constitution, was convinced that the new government would prove to be a national, not a federal, government; that the several states would cease to exist as sovereign entities; and that the judiciary would be instrumental in causing that result. Joseph Story, a proponent of a…
Lecture posted August 8, 2012 by Michaela Dodge
The Future of the U.S. Nuclear Weapons Program
Abstract: The U.S. government’s own policies risk creating a gap between U.S. nuclear capabilities and the future demands of the uncertain strategic environment. As a matter of national security, the U.S. must revitalize its nuclear-weapons complex. On June 27, 2012, The Heritage Foundation’s Michaela Bendikova addressed an audience of nuclear experts and future leaders…