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Saturday, November 21, 2009
 
 
SCHOLARS & FELLOWS
 
Henry Olsen
Vice President and Director, National Research Initiative
 
 
RESOURCES
 
 
RESEARCH AREAS
 
  • Long-term political trends
Contact E-mail: holsen@aei.org Phone: 202-828-6024 Assistant: Greg Lane Assistant E-mail: greg.lane@aei.org Assistant Phone: 202-862-4879   Biography
 
Henry Olsen, a lawyer by training, is the director of AEI's National Research Initiative. In that capacity, he identifies leading academics and public intellectuals who work in an aspect of domestic public policy and recruits them to visit or write for AEI. Mr. Olsen studies and writes about the policy and political implications of long-term trends in social, economic, and political thought.
 
Experience
  • Vice President for Programs, Executive Director, Center for Civic Innovation, Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, 1998-2006
  • President, Executive Director, Commonwealth Foundation for Public Policy Alternatives, 1995-98
  • Attorney, Dechert, Price, and Rhoads, 1991-95
  • Judicial Clerk, Judge Danny J. Boggs, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, 1990-91
  • Legislative Assistant, California State Assembly, 1984-87
  • Associate, Hoffenblum-Mollrich Communications, 1983-84
  • Consultant, Sebastiani Redistrict Initiative, 1983
 
Education
 
J.D., University of Chicago Law School
B.A., Claremont McKenna College
 
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Articles and Commentary [List all]

Conservatives who seek a revival in their movement must examine how America has changed since the glory days of President Ronald Reagan, and how those changes pose new challenges to, and may impose new limits on, conservatism today.

Was the Goldwater campaign of 1964 was a major loss for conservatism or an invaluable time of forging principles?

The Republican base is mostly white evangelical Christians, but it can grow through appealing to the educated affluent, the working-class nonevangelical faithful, or minorities.

 
 
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