By Paul M. Weyrich
Chairman and CEO
Free Congress Foundation

Column #1: The Next Conservatism - Don't we call ourselves conservatives because we believe in "the permanent things," truths that hold for all time? Of course we do. We believe that truth comes from God, who does not change. Yet it is also true that conservatism changes over time. (July 18, 2005)

Column #2: The Centrality of Culture - At the heart of the challenge facing the conservative agenda lies one simple fact: while we focused our efforts on politics, our opponents on the left focused instead on culture. Each of us won. (July 25, 2005)

Column #3: The Danger of the State - The next conservatism should not allow the creation of a national security state here at home. It we trade our liberties for security, we will have made a very bad bargain; we will end up with neither. (August 1, 2005)

Column #4: The Danger to the State - Conservatives have long understood the danger of the state, the danger that an overly powerful government will destroy liberty. But the next conservatism must also face a different problem: the danger to the state. (August 8, 2005)

Column #5: The Danger of the Ideological State - If there is one clear lesson from the 20th century, it is that all ideologies are dangerous. It is ironic that after the catastrophic failure of ideologies during that time in Russia, Germany, Italy and many other countries, America should now head down the same road. (August 15, 2005)

Column #6: A Foreign Policy for Americans - Paul Weyrich says the next conservatism needs a foreign policy designed for a republic, not an empire. "It needs to recognize that the Establishment wants to play the great power game because it lives richly off that game," he says. (August 22, 2005)

Column #7: Restoring the Republic - According to Paul Weyrich, restoring the American republic needs to be a central part of the next conservatism. "As the Founding Fathers understood, we cannot both seek empire and preserve liberty," he writes. (August 29, 2005)

Column #8: The Next Conservative Economics - Today, most people seem to accept the primacy of the economy: anything is good if it helps the economy, bad if it hurts it (or special interests say it will hurt it). That is not the traditional conservative view. (September 6, 2005)

Column #9: Country Life - The next conservatism should look toward a world where, as Tolkien put it, there is less noise and more green. Our goal should be to make agrarian life, in all its dimensions, available to as many Americans as possible. (September 12, 2005)

Column #10: Conservative New Urbanism - As a conservative, Paul Weyrich thinks "new urbanism" needs to be part of the next conservatism. But he also thinks we need a conservative new urbanism, which differs from much of what now goes under the new urbanist label. (September 19, 2005)

Column #11: Think Locally, Act Locally - Paul Weyrich says conservatism is not an ideology, but a way of life. That way of life, he says, needs to be grounded in local traditions and in preserving and, where necessary, restoring those traditions. (September 26, 2005)

Column #12: Restoring the Reality Principle - The next conservatism needs to recognize that Aldous Huxley's Brave New World describes America's probable future, unless conservatives and perhaps some others can bring about a massive change of direction. (October 3, 2005)

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