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National Review Online highlights a recent speech from North Carolina’s Art Pope, founding chairman of the John Locke Foundation. One of the oldest sayings about philanthropy is: “Give a man…
Shannon Watkins of the Martin Center devotes a column to the impact of “social justice” in American higher education. Social justice education—which teaches young people to view the world through…
What was your first job? If you are a certain age, it may have been delivering newspapers in the neighborhood. Maybe, like U.S. Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, it…
The John William Pope Foundation and the Jesse Helms Center are co-hosting a foreign policy symposium this Friday, May 11, 2018, from 12:00 – 9:00pm at the Raleigh Marriott Crabtree…
Nicholas Brake, superintendent of the Owensboro Independent School District in Kentucky, published an op-ed in Education Week titled, “Want to Support Public Schools? Stop Cutting Taxes.” Brake writes, The fiscal…
John Locke Foundation founder and former chairman Art Pope today was elected chairman of the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, one of the nation’s largest conservative grant-making charitable organizations. Pope…
The presidential race grabs most of the headlines, while North Carolina’s gubernatorial and U.S. Senate contests attract some attention as well. But voters will face other important decisions as they…
The Chronicle of Higher Education has a new, subscription-only, article about the influence of the Pope Foundation and the Pope Center on North Carolina’s colleges, particularly through the legislature. As with all…
J. Peder Zane’s column this morning on the politics of the Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity — its ending as well as its beginning — included the following: The…
Huffington “Hit Piece” Post has it out for the “Tea Party Legislature” and us sinister conservative think tanks that pull their strings. Yes, yes, our dastardly grand plan is coming…
According to left wing pundits and activists new rules governing voting in North Carolina have suppressed the vote among African Americans and young people in this past year’s election. Using…
News from the John Locke Foundation. As the John Locke Foundation prepares to celebrate its 25th anniversary with new programs and initiatives, the free-market think tank is also announcing the…