Liberating the Limerick
Posted: Wednesday, May 17, 2006
In his new book Liberating the Limerick, EPPC Senior Scholar (and founding President) Ernest Lefever collects, and organizes by theme, 230 limericks that "reflect facets of truth and virtue wrapped in the garments of irony and caricature."   [Full Story]

America's Imperial Burden
Is the Past Prologue?
Posted: Monday, June 1, 1998
On the cusp of a new millennium, are we Americans prepared to accept the imperial burden that history has thrust upon us? Looking back, the author argues that writ large, America, despite its internal flaws and external blunders, has borne its imperial burden with a singular sense of responsibility.   [Full Story]

The Irony of Virtue
Ethics and American Power
Posted: Sunday, February 1, 1998
This definitive anthology is the fruit of one of America’s most respected neoconservatives.  Trained in Christian ethics, Ernest Lefever has been an articulate public policy advocate.  Both conservatives and liberals will ignore his views at their peril.  [Full Story]

Decline of the West?
George Kennan and His Critics
Posted: Friday, September 15, 1978
Since the publication in 1947 of his famed “Mr. X” article on containment of the Soviet Union, George Kennan has been a central -- if somewhat enigmatic -- figure in the debate over America’s conduct of international affairs. His writings and speeches over the past three decades have raised a number of critical questions on both sides of the Atlantic: Is the West still capable of providing the rest of the world with any kind of moral or ideological leadership? Is the strategic defense doctrine of the United States built on illusion or reality? What is the true nature of the conflict between East and West? The twelve essays in this volume focus on these and other issues as seen through the eyes of Mr. Kennan and his critics  [Full Story]