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Heritage established the Non-partisan Commission on China and COVID-19 to uncover the Chinese Communist Party’s role in the most deadly and catastrophic global pandemic in over a century. Chaired by John Ratcliffe, 6th U.S. Director of National Intelligence, the Commission brought together nine distinguished experts from the fields of national security, medicine, law, and academia, each having ser...

The Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the most interesting energy and environmental policy issues of the day with top national experts.  Join us this week for a fascinating discussion with uranium industry veteran Scott Melbye, Executive Vice President, Uranium Energy Corporation and CEO, Uranium Royalty Corporation.  Scott brings decades of perspective to the discussion and reminds us...

The Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the most interesting energy and environmental policy issues of the day with top national experts.  Jack welcomes the Cato Institute’s Nicolas Anthony back to the Power Hour, who is joined this time by his colleague Norbert Michel, Vice President for Cato’s Center for Monetary Policy and Financial Alternatives.  They pick up their conversation from...

The Heritage Foundation’s B. Kenneth Simon Center for American Studies is pleased to announce that Peter Robinson, Hoover Institution Senior Fellow and former speechwriter for President Ronald Reagan, will deliver the inaugural Lee Edwards Lecture in Conservative Leadership. The title of his speech is “How Ronald Reagan Won the Cold War.” The Heritage Foundation established the annual Lee Edwards...

The Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the most interesting energy and environmental policy issues of the day with top national experts. This week Jack invites old friends Travis Fisher, now the Director for Energy and Environmental Studies at the Cato Institute and Rachael Wilfong, back to the podcast to help celebrate the Power Hour’s first year in existence. You will have t...

Almost every developed country suffers from a birth dearth—in which average fertility is so low that a country fails to replace its population. Some countries have taken drastic policy measures to try to reverse this trend. Policymakers in the United States, however, have just started to ponder the problem and how they might try to solve it. Though policies can surely make some difference in a cou...

Securing essential resources is a critical national security priority. This imperative fuels geostrategic competition between the United States and the People’s Republic of China (PRC). However, over many years, the PRC has executed a plan to reverse roles by infiltrating and dominating the “green movement” embraced by many on the political left. To dissect this challenge, The Heritage Foundation’...

January 2021 marked the beginning of an illegal immigration boom in the United States, which has led to a drastic increase in violent crime across the country. In many cases, the criminal aliens were present not  in spite of  federal, state, or local policy but  because  of intentional policy choices advanced by the left. Heritage’s new data visualization tool, “Border Insecuri...

The Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the most interesting energy and environmental policy issues of the day with top national experts. This week Jack welcomes Founder and President of the Global America Business Institute (GABI), Florence Lowe-Lee to the Power Hour. Jack and Florence discuss how the decades long partnership that the U.S. has developed with South Korea on&nbs...

The Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the most interesting energy and environmental policy issues of the day with top national experts. Jack invites one of the nation’s leading experts on commercial nuclear energy, Edward Davis, to the Power Hour this week. With decades of experience in industry and government, Ed brings a unique perspective to nuclear energy policy that...

The Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the most interesting energy and environmental policy issues of the day with top national experts. Jack talks this week Dr. David Legates, Director of Research and Education at the Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation, about climate change and sea levels, and you won’t believe what he has to say. Dr. Legates, who holds a Ph. D...

Throughout her ten years of service at the highest levels of the British government, former Prime Minister Liz Truss bore witness to the dangerous schemes of the Global Left, who continue to push their model of corporate state-socialism on the world. In her new book,  Ten Years to Save the West: Leading the Revolution Against Globalism, Socialism, and the Liberal Establishment , Truss warns u...

What has happened to America? How did it become a land where teachers tell students they may have been born in the wrong body and where keeping your job may depend on affirming the lie that our society is systemically racist? These are two examples of many in which a new Marxist ideology is gripping our institutions. This is not Soviet Marxism of the 1960s; this is  NextGen Marxism , and it’s...

Keeping Taiwan free from the grasp of the Chinese Communist Party is a vital interest of the United States. An attack on the democratic, self-governing island by the People’s Republic of China would gravely threaten the security and prosperity of everyday Americans. This represents just one of the key conclusions reached in the landmark research paper published this month by Heritage Research Fell...

The Heritage Foundation is honored to announce that Professor John Yoo, the Emanuel S. Heller Professor of Law at the University of California at Berkeley, will deliver this year's Edwin Meese III Originalism Lecture for his speech titled, “Can Originalism Be Moral?” This annual lecture seeks to honor former Attorney General Ed Meese’s legacy of advancing an understanding and jurisprudence of orig...

The Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the most interesting energy and environmental policy issues of the day with top national experts. Jack talks this week with Christine Fletcher, Vice President, North American Young Generation in Nuclear about the rising popularity of nuclear energy among Americans in general, and with young Americans specifically. They discuss why the acc...

The Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the most interesting energy and environmental policy issues of the day with top national experts. Join Jack this week for a must listen conversation with Amir Vexler, President and CEO of America's only domestically owned uranium enrichment company. Jack and Amir discuss everything from the technical details of enrichment to the history o...

The Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the most interesting energy and environmental policy issues of the day with top national experts. Join Jack this week for a conversation with Jason Hayes, Director of Energy and Environment at the Mackinac Center—a leading state-based research and policy institution. Jack and Jason discuss how Washington talking points on energy policy tr...

In recent years, there has been renewed interest in the role of natural law in American law. Several important scholars, such as Jud Campbell and Richard H. Helmholz, have examined how courts and other legal actors used natural law reasoning at the Founding. Others, such as J. Joel Alicea, have argued over whether the natural law tradition requires or is consistent with a particular theory of cons...

Drawing inspiration from President Ronald Reagan’s goal for the contest with the Soviet Union - “We win, and they lose” - Matthew Kroenig and Dan Negrea’s new book,  We Win They Lose: Republican Foreign Policy & the New Cold War , articulates a conservative strategy to defeat the Chinese Communist Party as America navigates a New Cold War. Dissecting the major national security chall...

“Described in 2017 as the second most powerful woman in UK politics, Arlene Foster made her first appearance on BBC Newsnight aged 17, after her school bus was bombed by the PIRA,” notes  Foster’s website . Having lived through a terrorist attack at a young age, Baroness Foster knew that she wanted to be a leader of change in Northern Ireland. Throughout her career in politics, she has held s...

The Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the day’s most interesting energy and environmental policy issues with top national experts. Jack is joined today by Flibe Energy’s President and Chief Technologist, Kirk Sorensen. What is Flibe Energy, you ask? Well, it is a leading nuclear technology company that wants to change our lives for the better with their molten salt reactors.&...

Abortion survivors’ stories of resilience and courage humanize the vague discourse of “choice” and life emerging from the womb. These stories emerge to become inspiring dramas of hope, love, and forgiveness. What about the stories that end differently? Though Roe v. Wade has been overturned at the federal level, there is still much to be done in the states to preserve the right to life for every m...

The Heritage Foundation and Alliance Defending Freedom are honored to announce that the renowned author and social activist  Ayaan Hirsi Ali  will deliver the 2024 Russell Kirk Lecture. Hirsi Ali has received innumerable awards and honors for her courageous opposition to political Islamism and vigorous advocacy of the besieged Western traditions of freedom of religion, inquiry, and speec...

Agenda Introductory Remarks Mike Gonzalez , Angeles T. Arredondo E Pluribus Unum Senior Fellow, International Engagement, The Heritage Foundation Fireside Chat The Honorable Burgess Owens (R-UT) , Member, U.S. House of Representatives Eric Teetsel , Vice President, Government Relations, The Heritage Foundation  (Moderator) Panel I: The Capture of Higher Education Institutions Jay P. Gree...