What do we mean when we talk about “big government”? Conservatives have railed against this enemy for generations, but it is striking how rarely we try to define the term. The conservative movement ...

President Lyndon Johnson speaking about the Great Society on the College Green of Ohio University in 1964. (Photo Provided) Sixty years ago, the first programs of President Lyndon Johnson’s “Great ...

History could look back on Democrats’ sweeping spending and infrastructure bills in the same fashion as the New Deal programs of the 1930s and Great Society programs of the 1960s. At least that’s what ...

- Second, carrying out hard-hitting, tough-minded reforms in existing programs. 2. All of you, I am sure, are convinced of the need of new ideas. I have been impressed with the imagination and vision ...

On May 22, 1964, President Lyndon Johnson addressed a crowd of more than 80,000 at the University of Michigan’s football stadium in Ann Arbor. Having taken the oath of office just six months earlier ...

Just a little over a week after President Joe Biden, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), and the New York Times attacked Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) for suggesting it was the Great Society and ...

There has long been a tug-of-war over White House plans to make government more liberal or more conservative. Douglas Rissing/iStock / Getty Images Plus For much of the 20th century, efforts to remake ...

Since the implementation of Lyndon B. Johnson’s Great Society programs in the 1960s, reducing government assistance has become impossible. Society (citizens and corporations alike) has developed a ...

George Weigel, keeper of the flame for St. Pope John Paul II, was once an exemplar of a neoconservative approach to religion and politics that many of us thought was misguided or wrong, but which at ...

The President’s annual farm message is a melancholy event: it invariably proposes the waste of several billion dollars. President Johnson’s farm program, sent to Congress last week, is no exception.

President Donald Trump attends inauguration ceremonies in the rotunda of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 20, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) For much of the 20th century, ...