Heritage Foundation Leadership for America

Location: The Heritage Foundation's Lehrman Auditorium

For years scholars have constructed – and the media has pushed – elaborate theories designed to demonstrate that conservatives suffer from a host of personality defects and character flaws. According to these supposedly unbiased studies, conservatives are mean-spirited, greedy, selfish malcontents with authoritarian tendencies.

Peter Schweizer, however, has dug deep – through tax documents, scholarly data, primary opinion research surveys, and private records – and discovered that these claims are a myth.  Indeed, he shows that many of these claims actually apply more to liberals than conservatives. Much as he did in his bestseller Do as I Say (Not as I Do), he brings to light never-before-revealed facts that contradict conventional wisdom.

Schweizer argues that the problem lies in modern liberal ideas, which foster a self-centered, “if it feels good do it” attitude that leads liberals to outsource their responsibilities to the government and focus instead on themselves and their own desires.