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It is time for me, as the Visiting Scholar of Conservative Policy at CU, to say farewell to one and all. The academic year has run its course, students have graduated or “risen” (as they used to say) up to another status of upperclassmen, and my appointment comes to its...

Francis Beckwith served as the Visiting Scholar in Conservative Thought and Policy for the 2016-17 academic year. He is the fourth person to hold the position. Beckwith earned a PhD in philosophy from Fordham University and a master of juridical studies from the Washington University School of Law in St...

CU-Boulder announces finalists for Visiting Scholar in Conservative Thought and Policy The University of Colorado Boulder today announced two finalists for the fourth Visiting Scholar in Conservative Thought and Policy. This month, the finalists will make one-day campus visits, during which they will hold public forums. The finalists are Francis...

For the spring term, the Conservative Thought and Policy Program is assembling a speaker series on the history, legacy and contemporary relevance of supply-side economics: the policy mix of tax and regulatory restraint, coupled with sound money, that formed the basis of the Ronald Reagan economic policy in the 1980s...

The much anticipated biography of Russell Kirk, the founder of modern American conservatism, has been released. Russell Kirk: American Conservative , authored by Bradley J. Birzer , the Visiting Scholar in Conservative Thought and Policy at CU-Boulder in 2014-15, is available from the University Press of Kentucky. The post-World War...

Brian Domitrovic calls into question Bernanke's memories of the financial crisis, this week on Forbes.com: Bernanke Has His Facts Wrong -- And Is Short On Courage Ben Bernanke’s memoir of the Great Recession, a book called The Courage to Act , is out. In summarizing the book’s argument in an...

Visiting Scholar in Conservative Thought and Policy Brian Domitrovic took part in the Jackson Hole Summit , the "shadow" summit to the Federal Reserve's own retreat at Jackson Hole, Wyoming over the weekend. He wrote up his reflection of the event on Forbes.com here .

The University of Colorado Boulder announced on August 27, 2015 that the Center for Western Civilization in the College of Arts and Sciences is now the Center for Western Civilization, Thought and Policy (CWCTP) and incorporates CU-Boulder’s successful Visiting Scholar in Conservative Thought and Policy program. The expansion will bolster...

The University of Colorado Boulder announced today that the Center for Western Civilization in the College of Arts and Sciences is now the Center for Western Civilization, Thought and Policy (CWCTP) and incorporates CU-Boulder’s successful Visiting Scholar in Conservative Thought and Policy program. The expansion will bolster the Center by...