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Scott Walter
SCOTT WALTER is president of Capital Research Center. He served in the George W. Bush Administration as SpecialAssistant to the President for Domestic Policy and was vice president at the Philanthropy Roundtable, editingPhilanthropy magazine and producing donor guidebooks on assistance to the poor, public policy research, and other topics. Walter has written for and been quoted in such outlets as the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall StreetJournal, and the Chronicle of Philanthropy. A Georgetown graduate, he served as a senior fellow at the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty and as senior editor of AEI’s flagship publication.
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In a series of penetrating reflections on the United States and its institutions in the post-9/11 world, this book offers some answers to questions that people at home and abroad have begun to ask about our country. How did it attain its international preeminence? What exactly is this richest, most powerful of countries made of? Where will its unmatched influence lead?
Collapse takes stock of a volatile and threatening international environment by looking at some of the underlying causes and flashpoints—the principal one being the failure of institutions and elites to respond to their constituencies and address the problems of our age. This is a problem spanning the increased polarization that bred nationalist and populist movements, the continued failure of Western leaders to come up with effective strategies for combating authoritarian rivals like Russia and China, and the ongoing Islamist threat.
The Unmaking of a Mayor is a time capsule of the political atmosphere of America in the spring of 1965, diagnosing the multitude of ills that plagued New York and other major cities.
In 1979, Christopher Lasch published the epochal The Culture of Narcissism, warning of the normalizing of narcissism in our society. Lasch may have understated it. Thirty-five years later, in the Obama era—with its parade of endless, often inexplicable, scandals—we have a full-blown epidemic of what has recently been called Moral Narcissism.
A Gift of Freedom shows how John M. Olin’s “venture capital fund for the conservative movement” helped develop one of the leading forces in American politics and culture.
In The Hillary Trap, journalist and media personality Laura Ingraham turns a razor sharp eye on this view of Hillary and questions her status as a metaphor for the modern empowered woman. Ingraham suggests that if anything, Hillary’s mix of opportunism, acquiescence, and dependency has set women back rather than leading them forward. This is the Hillary Trap.