Recent Calvert Institute PublicationsRepublican Modifications to a Democratic Agenda November 23rd, 2022
Congressional compromise: Republican modifications to a Democratic agenda could satisfy all | GUEST COMMENTARY By George Liebmann For The Baltimore Sun • Nov 21, 2022 at 10:58 am A simplistic Democratic wish list at the federal level would include: An assault weapons ban; Marijuana legalization; Amnesty for illegal residents of long standing; A $15 minimum […]
The Cooperative Route for Housing Development October 25th, 2022
Politics Foreign Affairs Culture 20th Anniversary Gala Account The Cooperative Route for Housing Development For real change to happen in the suburbs, developers and RCAs will need to work in tandem. The AmericanConservativeOnline,Oct 21, 2022 Change in the suburbs comes slowly. Public-sector inertia has long doomed schemes for housing, zoning, and local government reform, such […]
October 17th, 2022
Book Announcement- JOURNAL OF TWO PLAGUE YEARS by George W. Liebmann This is a collection of 70 op-ed pieces appearing in the Baltimore Sun, The American Conservative Online, the Washington Examiner, Chronicles Online, the Washington Times, and the Calvert Institute website in the two years beginning with the presidential election of 2020. It reflects the […]
A Material Agenda for a New GOP August 31st, 2022
A Material Agenda for a New GOP The Democrats’ pivot to identity politics presents an opportunity for Republicans on economics. TheAmericanConservativeOnline, George Liebmann Aug 31, 2022 12:01 AM For half a century, “civil rights” organizations and the Democratic Party have worked hard at creating coalitions of the disaffected, ‘slicing and dicing’ the electorate along lines […]
Failed Consent Decree to Blame for City’s High Murder Rate August 29th, 2022
Failed consent decree to blame for city’s high murder rate Baltimore Sun, August 29, 2022 Cities that have toyed with consent decrees like Baltimore have higher homicide rates since two of their principal effects are to discourage police recruitment and prevent proactive policing (“Baltimore police reform remains essential to any hope of crime reduction,” Aug. […]
August 19th, 2022
Welfare Reform, British Style America could take a page from Britain’s Citizens Advice Bureaux. TheAmericanConservativeOnline George Liebmann Aug 19, 2022 12:01 AM Americans have grown accustomed to constitutional litigation launched by well-prepared federally subsidized legal-services offices seeking to nullify state and municipal laws. These groups frequently overwhelm the ill-prepared assistant state attorneys general and assistant […]
August 14th, 2022
Reinventing the Babushka by George Liebmann We are told that there is a crisis in day care, , but the remedy of massive governmental subsidy espoused by the Children’s Defense Fund is no answer to it, since it also afflicts families of means. Nor is the remedy of the teachers’ unions sensible: lengthening of the […]
August 2nd, 2022
Joe Manchin’s bargain | GUEST COMMENTARY By George Liebmann For The Baltimore Sun • Aug 2, 2022 From the beginning of discussion of the Biden administration’s Build Back Better proposal, I forecast that the time would come when Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia would be “bought off” by the Biden administration with the provisions […]
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Recent Calvert Institute Press HitsG. Liebmann, “Republican Modifications to a Democratic Agenda,” Baltimore Sun, Novemner 22, 2022 G. Liebmann, “The Cooperative Route for Housing Development,” October 21, 2022 G. Liebmann, “A Material Agenda for a New GOP”, TheAmericanConservativeOnline,August 31, 2022 G. Liebmann, “Failed Consent Decree to Blame for City’s High Murder Rate, Baltimore Sun, August 29, 2022 G. Liebmann, “Welfare Reform, British Style,” August 19,2022,theamericanconservativeonline G. Liebmann, “Reinventing the Babushka,” www.calvertinstitute.org,August14,2023 G. Liebmann, “Joe Manchin’s Bargain,” Baltimore Sun, August 2, 2022 G. Liebmann, “Their Party’s Call,” August 2,2022,theamericanconservativeonline G. Liebmann, “Utopia U.,” July 15,2022, TheAmericanConservativeOnline G. Liebmann, “Glory, Glory Hallelujah,” Calvert Institute, July 9, 2022 G. Liebmann, “Local Labor: Still Left Behind”, TheAmericanConservativeOnline, July 2, 2022 G. Liebmann, “Abortion: An End to Hysteria,” www.calvertinstitute.org May 22, 2022 Random Calvert ExpertMr. Jerry TaylorDirector - Natural Resources Studies Cato Institute Holds that evironmental pollution is not a result of market failure, but is instead a result of government's failure to recognize and provide for the legal means to protect private property. "The government manages fragile public lands as efficiently and sensitively as it delivers the mail," claims Taylor. |