We are excited to announce the launch of a new campaign to fund establishing and sustaining The Buckley Institute for Civil Discourse.
It is impossible to overestimate the need for an Institute devoted to improving the American dialogue. Such improvement is the result of having better ideas, better ability to express those ideas, and better manners.
While this kind of institute is in part, like a university, essentially a collection of ideas, that collection needs a place to reside. The Buckley Foundation for Communications will establish a unique venue for exploring and expanding the uniquely American dialogue. Through the Buckley Institute for Civil Discourse, the Foundation will host seminars and colloquia in a setting conducive to reflection, thought and communication.
The Buckley Institute for Civil Discourse will become a national center of civil discourse.
Click the button below to see how you can help to preserve our unique American patrimony ... and extend its influence to future generations.
In the New Republic on September 14, 2011, Mr. Peter Orszag, the former Director of the Office of Management and Budget said:
"To solve the serious problems facing our country, we need to minimize the harm from legislative inertia by relying more on automatic policies and depoliticized commissions for certain policy decisions. In other words, radical as it sounds, we need to counter the gridlock of our political institutions by making them a bit less democratic."
Well, dictatorships are nothing, if not efficient. Our Republic was intended to be inefficient - to prevent the national government from threatening our liberties. Looks like we better discuss this.
Resolved: That in the name of "efficiently solving the nation's problems", power should be taken from the Legislature and given to the Executive.
Submit your best response - on either side of the resolution - by clicking the button below. No more than 450 words, please.. The best Pro and Con will appear in our blog and each will win a $50 gift card.
"Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for."
- Socrates (469 B.C.)
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“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”
― Theodore Roosevelt
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