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<p>Written during his days as a Tea Party Congressman, DeSantis's 2011 book cherry-picks quotes from the Washington and Hamilton to argue that Barack Obama was engaged in an unconstitutional power grab that would have appalled the founders. It also makes bad arguments about the centrality of slavery to the early Republic. </p>

Casey DeSantis is not a secret weapon.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' wife, Casey, has been instrumental in his political career and rise to fame as a potential 2024 candidate.

John B. Taylor is the George P. Shultz Senior Fellow in Economics at the Hoover Institution and the Mary and Robert Raymond Professor of Economics at Stanford University. He chairs the Hoover Working Group on Economic Policy, co-chairs the Hoover Technology, Economics and Governance Working Group,...

The current presidential campaign provides us with an opportunemoment to revisit our misconceptions and replace them with betterand more fully grounded ones, or, short of that, at least toresolve to be resolutely skeptical when we hear importantabstractions employed with imprecision, equivocation, andobscurity. We should demand that our leaders fill such abstractionswith actual content.

It is possible to protect conscience rights and promote the common good, and religious accommodations themselves promote the common good.

On April 22, 2013, Senator Mike Lee (R–UT) addressed an audience at The Heritage Foundation outlining a conservative vision of a free society based on American first principles.

Principle-centered leadership promotes a candid relationship between elected officials and their constituents. Leaders of any political persuasion can produce a great product by having a debatewithin the framework of core principles that center on lessgovernment and greater personal responsibility.

The terms isolationism and noninterventionism are often used without clear meaning. Neither describes traditional American foreign policy.

  National Conservatism and Free Enterprise Conservative intellectuals, commentators, and politicians are rethinking the relationship between free enterprise and the common good. Although critiques of the market have a long history in traditionalist circles, most American conservatives have held for several decades that protecting markets from government was essential for human flourishing. But that view is quickly changing as many elements of classical liberalism are now being challenged.