In its tenth Guideline for Government and Citizenship, the Center for Public Justice articulates eight theses that frame its outlook on, and approach to, the formulation of public policy on the environment. The Center’s president, James Skillen, explains each thesis and relates all of them to the contemporary context of national and international arguments over climate change and other threats to the global environment.

This fall, the Center will host its thirteenth annual Kuyper Lecture on the subject of the foundations of law. The time and location of the lecture will be announced in the near future. The lecturer will be Prof. Roy Clouser, recently retired from the College of New Jersey where he taught philosophy for decades. Following a brief introduction by the editor, an excerpt from Clouser’s book The Myth of Religious Neutrality is offered here.
 

This academic year, Steven Meyer, a professor at the National Defense University in Washington, D.C., has been a visiting Fellow at the Center for Public Justice. His project has been to explore the rapidly changing configurations of political, military, and economic institutions around the world. We present here an excerpt from a major essay he has written for a book on this subject.

Prof. Steven Meyer offers a critical assessment of the Bush administration’s foreign policy as it deals with the Middle East, North Korea, Russia, and Iran. “The combination of Washington’s ideological rigidity and the gathering strength of challengers,” he writes, “have led to an American weakness in the international arena that we have not seen since just before World War II.”

Gail Jansen, an attorney in Tucson, Arizona and a former trustee of the Center for Public Justice, explains what is happening in Arizona with statewide school reform. Arizona leads the nation in the development of tax credits for gifts to scholarship funds that support parental choice of diverse schools, including religious schools. Arizona also offers a corporate tax credit for gifts to scholarship funds.

In his Editor’s Watch this issue, James Skillen tries to explain why so few Americans see public service as a meaningful vocation. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice needs to borrow military personnel to help staff the U.S. embassy in Iraq. In other areas of government there is also a talent drain. None of this bodes well for the future health of the republic. What will it take for young people to hear the call to public service?