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Neal B. Freeman is chairman of the Blackwell Corporation.
by | Jul 15, 2011

Editor’s note: The great conservative writer, journalist, scholar, organizer, leader, and entertainer M. Stanton Evans died yesterday in Leesburg, Virginia. In the fall of 2011 we honored him at our annual dinner. Afterward he spoke, as captured on YouTube. Earlier…

by | Jan 21, 2011

Turn off the cable yappers for a moment, will you? Consider the political road ahead and where you hope it will lead. Then run these traps: 1. With the re-enlistments of triangulators William Daley, Gene Sperling, and Jack Lew, Barack Obama…

by | Oct 5, 2010

Kudos to USA Today, that most mainstream of all major media, for reminding us who “we” are. In an enterprising and courageous story published in August, the paper reported that the average U.S. private-sector worker receives $61,051 in compensation while…

by | Sep 29, 2010

Like everybody else in his right mind, I love Maine, and I fear for her future. In my case, the roots of love run deep. My grandmother came from Old York, just as, the family Bible records, did her grandfather,…

by | Dec 30, 2009

Every time the air fills with talk of tax increases, Bill Gates Sr. is trotted out to make the case that higher estate taxes are good for philanthropy, good for the country and good for goodness sake. Now, with the…

by | Aug 20, 2009

The news of Bob Novak’s death recalled a line of Roy Blount’s about a deceased friend: “I was shocked to learn of his death. It was so unlike him.” So it was with Bob Novak. He was so relentless in…

by | Jun 12, 2009

We reported last month on the controversy building around the new Ford Foundation CEO, Luis Ubinas. It now appears that we understated the scope of that controversy. As you may recall, Mr. Ubinas had announced in April a McKinsey-style reorganization…

by | May 22, 2009

There was a tizzy of speculation in January 2008 when Luis Ubinas was named the new (and ninth) President of the Ford Foundation. His résumé seemed to be of the garden variety: he was young and Hispanic, born in the…

by | Mar 23, 2009

I knew Steve Adams in college. He didn’t know me. He was a senior and I was a freshman and our relationship thus became frozen in time. When Steve is 105 years old and I am 102, he will still…

by | Dec 11, 2008

Princeton blinked. That sentence may not make belletrists forget “Call me Ishmael” or “Atlas shrugged,” but it will do nicely for now. You will remember that the Robertson family had charged that Princeton had repeatedly violated donor intent by misusing…

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