Gerald R. Ford Leadership Forum

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Debate: Abolish the Administrative State?

Paul J. Ray and Phillip Blond took the stage to discuss the question “who should rule?” While conservatives and liberals have long debated these developments, it is the former who have promised to reform the administrative state and end the delegation of Congressional power to a class of “administrative experts” in agencies like ATF, CDC, …

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Walker Percy and Southern Stoicism

by Jeff Polet Many of our cultural battles are intensified by our lack of imagination. We seldom display the sympathetic ability to put ourselves in our opponent’s shoes, meaning we typically don’t see them as moral actors but as immoral ones, forgetting that they don’t see themselves the same way. Surely there are persons whose …

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