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Showing posts with label conservatism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label conservatism. Show all posts
Thursday, October 6, 2016

From Vox: "Is this the way we want to live?" Andrew Sullivan on our distraction sickness — and Trump

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Another writer slams democracy and the decisions the electorate makes. This includes a great description of how a republic contains democrat...
Sunday, September 4, 2016

From the New Republic: The Birth of Conservative Media as We Know It

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For 2305 - this fits with our coverage of conservatism in a previous section, as well as our upcoming look at the media. - Click here for ...
Tuesday, August 2, 2016

From the New Yorker: THE NATHAN HECHT STORY: CONSERVATIVES CAPTURING COURTS

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A look at the current Chief Justice of the Texas Supreme Court and the role he has played in using the courts to push the conservative agen...
Sunday, July 24, 2016

Is Donald Trump really a conservative?

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For this week's 2305 written assignment. It's a commonly asked question - especially by real conservatives. There are a variety of w...
Wednesday, June 29, 2016

From Politico: The Supreme Court’s Conservative Run Is Over This year’s final decisions suggest we’ve passed a turning point in the Court’s rightward march.

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This likely depends on the result of the November election - but this seems to be the convention wisdom. - Click here for the article . ....
Monday, April 25, 2016

From the Texas Tribune: Ted Cruz Shifts Policy Stances to Suit Fractured GOP

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For our look at parties in the state of Texas, coupled with the ongoing campaign for the Republican presidential nomination. - Click here fo...
Sunday, February 21, 2016

From Scotusblog: What happens to this Term’s close cases?

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A good question. For our purposes it might be best to ask how it impacts the cases the cases on the docket involving Texas. Most of the aff...
Monday, February 15, 2016

From On The Issues: Antonin Scalia

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In case you want detail on what makes him conservative on the issues, if not on legal reasoning. - Click here for it .
Tuesday, October 6, 2015

Yes the Texas Senate was unusually conservative this past spring

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So says Rice Poli Sci guy Mark Jones. - Click here for the article .
Thursday, August 27, 2015

Bathroom references in anti- HERO campaign tap into deep seated differences between liberals and conservaties

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A Houston Chronicle commentator makes the following - correct - observation about the use of bathroom references in the campaign against th...
Thursday, July 2, 2015

A couple long items related to gay marriage

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The first presents a conservative argument in favor of gay marriage. - Not Whether but How: Gay Marriage and the Revival of Burkean Conser...
Tuesday, April 7, 2015

From 538: How Conservative are GOP Presidential Candidates?

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The story featured in the previous link has this great graphic which deserves to be poured over. It contains estimates of the ideological po...
Wednesday, January 21, 2015

A sampling of legislative agendas for the 84th Session

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For 2306's first written assignment, here are a few links to legislative agendas from different groups in the state. Remember that I...
Tuesday, September 2, 2014

From the Texas Tribune: Abbott to Call for Credit for Massive Online Courses

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This promises to shake things up for all of us. - Click here for the story : Republican gubernatorial candidate Greg Abbott will call for...
Wednesday, September 26, 2012

From David Brooks: The Conservative Mind

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The NYT columnists provides an inside look at conflict within the conservative movement between the economic and traditional conservatives,...
Monday, July 9, 2012

If not us, who?

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The NYT has a review of a book (so does the Washington Times ) that should help students understand how the Republican Party became such an...
Tuesday, July 3, 2012

John Roberts: Burkean Conservative

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Andrew Sullivan argues that the chief justice's ACA decision reveals that he's the only conservative on the court dedicated to the p...
Friday, January 6, 2012

The Club for Growth's Presidential White Papers

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For our ongoing look at interest groups - and their influence on the 2012 elections - you might want to glance through the Club for Growth ...
Thursday, September 29, 2011

Traditional Conservatism v. Contemporary Conservatism

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There is a difference. - Corey Robin on the Deep Roots of Conservative Radicalism . - Are Neocons The Real Conservatives ?
Monday, July 25, 2011

A Liberal Reads the Great Conservative Works

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A nice brief interview in the National Review which helps lay out one man's understanding of the difference between liberalism and con...