Dr. J. Rufus Fears (Ph.D., Harvard University) is David Ross Boyd Professor of Classics at the University of Oklahoma, where he holds the G.T. and Libby Blankenship Chair in the History of Liberty. An acclaimed teacher and scholar with 25 awards for teac...

The Oklahoma State constitution, fundamentally unchanged since 1907, has been cited as an insuperable barrier to good government. In 2000, building on previous efforts for reform, the Oklahoma Academy for State Goals sponsored a conference on constitutiona...

More than 200 Oklahoma citizens and veterans gathered in Oklahoma City on Wednesday to hear a speech about Iraq from an officer who has been there. Retired Lt. Col. Steve Russell is co-founder of Vets for Victory, which is an organization dedicated to fo...

America is under attack as never before—not only from terrorists but from within. Best-selling author Dinesh D'Souza writes about America as it really is in his newest book, The Enemy at Home, which OCPA reviewed in its January 2007 edition of Perspective. ...

The nation is as divided as ever along political and cultural lines, we are fighting a war against terror, investor confidence is low, most of the world resents us--all this adds up to present a daunting leadership challenge to President Bush. Is it possibl...

Dinesh D'Souza is the Robert and Karen Rishwain Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. D'Souza has been called one of the "top young public-policy makers in the country" by Investor's Business Daily. The New York Times Magazine named him o...

Oklahoma's state budget is one of the fastest growing in the country. In 1992, Colorado implemented a Taxpayers' Bill of Rights, ushering in a period of unprecedented prosperity, and provided more than $3 billion in tax rebates. The former president of t...

John Fund writes the weekly "Political Diary" column for OpinionJournal.com. Currently on leave as a member of the editorial board of The Wall Street Journal, he is working on a book about voter fraud. Mr. Fund joined the Journal in April 1984 as deputy edi...

Stephen Moore is president of the Free Enterprise Fund and a contributing editor of National Review. He previously was the Cato Institute's director of fiscal policy studies. Moore is the co-author of It's Getting Better All the Time: 100 Greatest Trends...

"Perhaps America's leading authority on overlitigation." That's what Investor's Business Daily has called Walter Olson, whose books and writings have helped set the terms of debate about the excesses of the nation's civil justice system. His new book, Th...

Called "the best governor in America" by National Review magazine, Bill Owens was sworn in as Colorado's 40th Governor in January 1999 and was re-elected in 2002. Gov. Owens, who was recently touted as one of the major emerging leaders in American politi...

Bill Conerly is one of the best-known economic consultants in the Pacific Northwest. For over 20 years he has been helping business managers make better decisions through a better understanding of the economy. His projects have ranged from electronic com...