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Free Markets, Economic Growth, and the Restoration of Civic Culture

Free Markets, Economic Growth, and the Restoration of Civic Culture

It is cooperation, not oppression, that is so deeply embedded in our way of life.

David C. Rose
Economic Dynamism
Jul 15, 2025

What Affirmative Action Has Wrought

What Affirmative Action Has Wrought

Jason Riley calls out those who have helped themselves at the expense of black Americans, whose lives they claim the power to order and arrange through affirmative action.

GianCarlo Canaparo
Constitutionalism
Jul 14, 2025

Painting the Revolution

Painting the Revolution

Trumbull makes the story of America’s independence about more than the men who secured it.

William Anthony Hay
Politics
Jul 11, 2025

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Free Markets, Economic Growth, and the Restoration of Civic Culture
David C. Rose
Economic Dynamism
Jul 15, 2025
What Affirmative Action Has Wrought
GianCarlo Canaparo
Constitutionalism
Jul 14, 2025
Painting the Revolution
William Anthony Hay
Politics
Jul 11, 2025
How Big, Bad, or Beautiful?
Richard Epstein
Politics
Jul 10, 2025
AI on the Brain
Rachel Lomasky
Economic Dynamism
Jul 10, 2025
Mahmoud v. Taylor and the Clash of Orthodoxies
Sarah Parshall Perry
Constitutionalism
Jul 9, 2025

Economic Dynamism

We consider the principles, policies, and culture that supports free market capitalism

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Free Markets, Economic Growth, and the Restoration of Civic Culture
David C. Rose
Economic Dynamism
Jul 15, 2025
AI on the Brain
Rachel Lomasky
Economic Dynamism
Jul 10, 2025
Escape From New York
Michael Toth
Economic Dynamism
Jul 7, 2025
Exploring the Future of Latin America and US Relations
Oscar Sumar, John Yoo
Economic Dynamism
Jul 2, 2025
A New Consensus in Latin America
Oscar Sumar
Economic Dynamism
Jul 2, 2025
Boosting Technological and Research Collaboration among Latin America, the Caribbean, and the United States
Luis Antonio Orozco
Economic Dynamism
Jul 2, 2025

Politics

We investigate what it means to be a constitutional people who remain tethered to the rule of law.

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Painting the Revolution
William Anthony Hay
Politics
Jul 11, 2025
How Big, Bad, or Beautiful?
Richard Epstein
Politics
Jul 10, 2025
McDougall's Wiser View of American History
Brian Smith
Politics
Jul 9, 2025
The Current Battleline of the DEI Wars
Tal Fortgang
Politics
Jul 7, 2025
Will Platonic Guardians End Mass Incarceration?
Paul J. Larkin
Politics
Jun 27, 2025
The Lion Rises and the Eagle Soars
Juliana Geran Pilon
Politics
Jun 24, 2025

Constitutionalism

We discuss the political thought that undergirds a society of freedom and virtue.

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What Affirmative Action Has Wrought
GianCarlo Canaparo
Constitutionalism
Jul 14, 2025
Mahmoud v. Taylor and the Clash of Orthodoxies
Sarah Parshall Perry
Constitutionalism
Jul 9, 2025
The War Powers and Original Understanding
John Yoo
Constitutionalism
Jul 8, 2025
Implied Powers in the Constitution
Robert G. Natelson
Constitutionalism
Jul 8, 2025
The American Constitution: Covenant or Curse?
Bradford P. Wilson
Constitutionalism
Jul 4, 2025
The Declaration’s Reconciliation of Populists and Constitutionalists
Paul Seaton
Constitutionalism
Jul 4, 2025

Pursuit of Happiness

We explore how citizens, neighbors, workers, families, and communities shape the future of American society.

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MacIntyre’s Post-Postliberal Godchildren
Thomas D. Howes
Pursuit of Happiness
Jul 3, 2025
The Burden of Debt and the Gift of Work
John C. Pinheiro
Pursuit of Happiness
Jun 20, 2025
American Renaissance: Penn Station Reborn?
Paul Zepeda
Pursuit of Happiness
Jun 6, 2025
How Reading Augustine Dispels Ideological Illusions
Ronald W. Dworkin
Pursuit of Happiness
May 30, 2025
Vergil: Poet Laureate of the American Founding
Robert G. Natelson
Pursuit of Happiness
May 2, 2025
Dissident Blessings in the Negative World
Brian Smith
Pursuit of Happiness
May 1, 2025

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