Policy Orientation: Videos

Veritas April 2018

This issue of Veritas, the quarterly publication of the Texas Public Policy Foundation, features solutions to correctly measure poverty, introduces the Texas Prosperity Promise, explores whether free college is a good idea, a farewell from our CEO Brooke Rollins, an introduction of Lieutenant Colonel Allen West and the Booker T. Washington Initiative, and recaps the 2018 Policy Orientation and Visionaries Meeting. 

The threat from radical Islamists did not end on September 11, 2001. It adapted.

September 11, 2001 was not an inexplicable act of violence. The men who carried out the attacks belonged to an ideological tradition that had identified the United States and the broader West as enemies long before commercial airplanes were hijacked that morning. Twenty-five years later, the danger is that Americans remember the horror of 9/11...

We Are The People They Sacrificed For

United Flight 93 carried 40 passengers and crew when hijackers seized it as part of the attack on America. Through phone calls with people on the ground, several learned that hijacked airplanes had already struck the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. They understood that Flight 93 was part of the larger attack, took a...