From: Michael E. Hartmann
Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2010 3:08
PM
To: Yvonne Engel
Cc: Daniel P. Schmidt
Subject: RE: Annual Report
Can we go with this, or a
version of it, from the website? …. –MH
2010 Bradley Symposium
The 2010 off-year elections
and opinion surveys suggested that the public is increasingly frustrated with the
current direction of public policy. It seems to many that Washington,
D.C., is out of touch with the concerns of the American people, pursuing
sweeping overhauls of health care, education, and environmental regulation,
while ignoring immediate concerns like disappearing jobs and the likelihood of
greatly increased taxes to cover runaway government spending. Clearly,
liberalism has provoked a populist insurgency against its ambitious plans for
making America anew.
But how should American
conservatism relate to this mood? After all, conservatism stands for
tradition, high culture, social order, and moderation, none of which jibe well
with the populist passions of the moment. Is the notion of populist
conservatism an oxymoron? Or can conservatism tap into the new Tea
Party's populist energy without compromising its essential principles?
The 2010
Bradley Symposium in Washington, "Tea Time: Can There Be a
Populist Conservatism?", tried answering these
questions.
Hosted by the Hudson Institute's Bradley Center for Philanthropy and
Civic Renewal and National Affairs
magazine, the Symposium featured Congressman Mike Pence of
Indiana; FreedomWorks chairman and former Speaker
of the House Dick Armey; Michael Barone, 2010
Bradley Prize recipient, Washington Examiner
senior political analyst, and co-author of The Almanac of American Politics; and Jonah Goldberg,
journalist and author of Liberal Fascism: The Secret
History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Change. The Weekly Standard's William Kristol, another Bradley Prize
recipient, moderated the discussion.
"Third parties are like
bees," Goldberg said. "They have their influence by stinging,
and then they die. If the tea party successfully stings the Republican
Party into girding its loins and returning to its roots and providing a choice
and all of these sorts of things, it will already have served its
purpose."
The Tea Party movement, Pence said, is about "going back to the
source of our greatness, which is our character, our faith, our belief in
limited government."
Audio and video clips of the 2010 Bradley Symposium are
available online, as
is an edited transcript.
From: Yvonne Engel
Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2010 2:22 PM
To: Dianne J. Sehler; Michael E. Hartmann
Cc: Terri L. Famer
Subject: Annual Report
It’s that time of year when I ask each of you to provide me your write-ups for the 2010 Bradley Prizes and Symposium, which will be part of the Foundation’s 2010 Annual Report. I mention this now in the hope you will be able to complete your write-up and get it to me by August 31st. I really do appreciate your help, as I recognize you are both very busy. Emailing the Word document to me would also be a big help. Thanks very much.