The Power of Ideas: A Symposium at Hudson Institute

Upcoming at Hudson Institute's Bradley Center for Philanthropy and Civil Society, Wednesday, June 4, 2008:

TOO OFTEN ideas are discounted as the effete playthings of the chattering classes, yet they have the power to transform our nation’s institutions, from our courts and legislatures to marriage and family life. Since 1998, Encounter Books has aimed to broaden public debate by bringing many new voices to bear on important policy and cultural issues.

On June 4, Hudson Institute’s Bradley Center for Philanthropy and Civic Renewal will hold its fourth annual Bradley Symposium, co-sponsored by Encounter Books, on the themes of the power of ideas, publishing, and preserving liberty and democracy. Three panels will draw from prepared essays and feature seven prominent Encounter authors:

Roger Kimball
Robert Bork
Andrew McCarthy
John O'Sullivan
John Fonte
James Piereson
Victor Davis Hanson

Comments

[JJ Commoner]

TOO OFTEN ideas are discounted as the effete playthings of the chattering classes, yet they have the power to transform our nation’s institutions, from our courts and legislatures to marriage and family life.

Oh, my ...

This symposium is one of those events meant to corral an emerging problem, right.

New voices ... ? Quite the list.

"The classes will chatter, but it's the master who matter".

[Phil]

"Ideas Matter" is a conservative slogan. Ideas about how shiftless poor people are, for example, about how welfare corrupts them, about how free the markets are, how open and transparent, how godlike in the distribution of benefits, how black people are held back by their genes and culture of failure, how rich white people are basking in God's grace, that estate tax is a death tax - all those are ideas that matter. You have to admit that the conservative think tanks have done brilliantly in getting their word out. I find Bill Schambra a friend of ideas, as well as a personal friend. From the limits of his tether (we all have one, at least those of us with jobs) he does his best to stir up real debates. Hope this event will be an example of that.