Post Tagged 'James Q. Wilson'

April 15, 2026

What Matters to Cultural Conservatives

There are many different kinds of conservatism—saber-rattling neoconservatives, backward-looking paleoconservatives, free-wheeling libertarians, to name a few. Ronald Reagan fused them into a winning coalition rooted in a common consensus favoring small government, free markets, and anticommunism. Continue Reading...

October 17, 2012

Samuel Gregg: Who’s Really Forgotten the Poor

On National Review Online, Acton Research Director Samuel Gregg offers an analysis of last night’s debate between President Barack Obama and Gov. Mitt Romney. Gregg begins with the assertion by Melinda Henneberger of the Washington Post that the candidates are ignoring poor and working-class Americans. Continue Reading...

March 02, 2012

James Q. Wilson, Requiescat in pace

Political scientist and criminologist James Q. Wilson, co-author of the influential “Broken Windows” article in The Atlantic Monthly in 1982, which led to shift toward community policing, died today at the age of 80. Continue Reading...