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American Aspiration – a Blueprint

American Aspiration – a Blueprint

We need to refocus on what prosperity produces and requires at the level of ordinary, individual people trying to make their way to that better version of themselves that only they can achieve. 

Ryan Streeter
Economic Dynamism
Jun 20, 2025

The Burden of Debt and the Gift of Work

The Burden of Debt and the Gift of Work

Pakaluk demonstrates how our nature as moral and social beings serves to create value and wealth as we utilize the resources of this earth to address the problem of scarcity. 

John C. Pinheiro
Pursuit of Happiness
Jun 20, 2025

Today’s Upside-Down Preference for Wind over Natural Gas

Today’s Upside-Down Preference for Wind over Natural Gas

Trump is right to push for his safe pipeline; Hochul should abandon her dangerous wind farms.

Richard Epstein
Economic Dynamism
Jun 19, 2025

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American Aspiration – a Blueprint
Ryan Streeter
Economic Dynamism
Jun 20, 2025
The Burden of Debt and the Gift of Work
John C. Pinheiro
Pursuit of Happiness
Jun 20, 2025
Today’s Upside-Down Preference for Wind over Natural Gas
Richard Epstein
Economic Dynamism
Jun 19, 2025
Putting the Judicial Branch in Its Place
Linda Denno
Constitutionalism
Jun 19, 2025
The Worst Thing about Trump’s Approach to Trade
Paul Mueller
Economic Dynamism
Jun 18, 2025
Looking West: Trade and America’s Future in the Asia-Pacific
Samuel Gregg
Economic Dynamism
Jun 18, 2025

Economic Dynamism

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

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American Aspiration – a Blueprint
Ryan Streeter
Economic Dynamism
Jun 20, 2025
Today’s Upside-Down Preference for Wind over Natural Gas
Richard Epstein
Economic Dynamism
Jun 19, 2025
The Worst Thing about Trump’s Approach to Trade
Paul Mueller
Economic Dynamism
Jun 18, 2025
Looking West: Trade and America’s Future in the Asia-Pacific
Samuel Gregg
Economic Dynamism
Jun 18, 2025
Generative AI Is Expanding Rapidly in 2025
Jon Hartley
Economic Dynamism
Jun 17, 2025
Will Companies Doing Business with the Federal Government Face New Litigation Threats?
Michael Toth
Economic Dynamism
Jun 4, 2025

Politics

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

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Work Requirements For Medicaid Could Increase Income and Reduce Poverty
Scott Winship
Politics
Jun 17, 2025
The Martyr’s Message
Juliana Geran Pilon
Politics
Jun 16, 2025
Backfire: Trump’s Overbroad Sanctions Against Harvard and Columbia
Richard Epstein
Politics
Jun 11, 2025
Texas and the Future of Legal Education
Richard M. Reinsch II
Politics
Jun 10, 2025
New Paths for Legal Education Should Be Considered
Derek T. Muller
Politics
Jun 10, 2025
The Conserving Force of Lawyers in American Democracy
John Yoo
Politics
Jun 10, 2025

Constitutionalism

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

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Putting the Judicial Branch in Its Place
Linda Denno
Constitutionalism
Jun 19, 2025
The Real Constitutional Issue with President Trump's Tariff Orders
Robert G. Natelson
Constitutionalism
Jun 13, 2025
The "Omnicause" Shall Not Prevail Over the Constitution
Robert Delahunty
Constitutionalism
Jun 12, 2025
Governor Newsom Is Committing Constitutional Malpractice
John Yoo
Constitutionalism
Jun 12, 2025
Trump's Trifecta
Richard Epstein
Constitutionalism
Jun 4, 2025
The Court of International Trade Issued a Deeply Flawed Tariff Ruling
John Yoo
Constitutionalism
Jun 3, 2025

Pursuit of Happiness

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

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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
When Life Becomes Unending Variations on Disease
Ronald W. Dworkin
Pursuit of Happiness
Apr 30, 2025

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