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Civitas Outlook, the online journal of the Civitas Institute, publishes original writing about the ideas that create flourishing societies.

What Kind of Democracy in America?

If elections are mandates for democratic change, then what role should the Constitution play?

John Grove

Multiple Contributors

Politics

Jan 22, 2025

Fire, Wind, and California

More than one set of winds is blowing in California.

Richard Epstein

Multiple Contributors

Politics

Jan 21, 2025

Rebuking the False Dichotomy of Progress vs. Reaction

The Progressive “mandate of heaven” is given to them by their more acute understanding of the future and what it demands of us – and, in turn, they of us.

Richard M. Reinsch II

Multiple Contributors

Politics

Jan 20, 2025

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What Kind of Democracy in America?

John Grove

Multiple Contributors

Politics

Jan 22, 2025

Fire, Wind, and California

Richard Epstein

Multiple Contributors

Politics

Jan 21, 2025

Rebuking the False Dichotomy of Progress vs. Reaction

Richard M. Reinsch II

Multiple Contributors

Politics

Jan 20, 2025

Can Tulsi Gabbard Lead a Broken Intelligence Community?

Danielle Pletka

Multiple Contributors

Politics

Jan 17, 2025

Should We Believe the Economic Data or Americans’ “Lyin’” Eyes? The Answer Is Yes.

Scott Winship

Multiple Contributors

Economic Dynamism

Jan 16, 2025

Centralized Regulation Will Not Produce a Decarbonized Future

Jonathan H. Adler

Multiple Contributors

Economic Dynamism

Jan 15, 2025

Economic Dynamism

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

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Should We Believe the Economic Data or Americans’ “Lyin’” Eyes? The Answer Is Yes.

Scott Winship

Multiple Contributors

Economic Dynamism

Jan 16, 2025

Centralized Regulation Will Not Produce a Decarbonized Future

Jonathan H. Adler

Multiple Contributors

Economic Dynamism

Jan 15, 2025

The Puzzles of Trumponomics 2.0

Samuel Gregg

Multiple Contributors

Economic Dynamism

Jan 2, 2025

Fixing Inflation, Right-Sizing the Federal Government

Scott Winship

Multiple Contributors

Economic Dynamism

Dec 20, 2024

The New Supply Side Economics Can Revive Economic Growth

Jonathan Hartley

Multiple Contributors

Economic Dynamism

Dec 20, 2024

The Future of Entrepreneurship in America

Andreas Widmer

Multiple Contributors

Economic Dynamism

Dec 19, 2024

Politics

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

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What Kind of Democracy in America?

John Grove

Multiple Contributors

Politics

Jan 22, 2025

Fire, Wind, and California

Richard Epstein

Multiple Contributors

Politics

Jan 21, 2025

Rebuking the False Dichotomy of Progress vs. Reaction

Richard M. Reinsch II

Multiple Contributors

Politics

Jan 20, 2025

Can Tulsi Gabbard Lead a Broken Intelligence Community?

Danielle Pletka

Multiple Contributors

Politics

Jan 17, 2025

Every State Needs a DOGE

Michael Toth

Multiple Contributors

Politics

Jan 10, 2025

Trump and the Panama Canal: Why He Should Invoke the Monroe Doctrine

John Yoo

Multiple Contributors

Politics

Jan 9, 2025

Constitutionalism

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

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Fake Convictions and Fake Pardons

Richard Epstein

Multiple Contributors

Constitutionalism

Jan 14, 2025

Degraded Deliberation in the U.S. House

Philip Wallach

Multiple Contributors

Constitutionalism

Jan 7, 2025

Deconstructing the Administrative State: Will This Time be Different?

Joseph Postell

Multiple Contributors

Constitutionalism

Jan 3, 2025

Biden's Shakespearean End: Something Wicked This Way Comes

Paul J. Larkin

Multiple Contributors

Constitutionalism

Jan 1, 2025

Chemerinsky's Constitutional Wishlist

Tal Fortgang

Multiple Contributors

Constitutionalism

Dec 31, 2024

Originalism Must Restore Self Government

Johnathan O’Neill

Multiple Contributors

Constitutionalism

Dec 27, 2024

Pursuit of Happiness

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

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Regenerating Society in an Age of Disintegration

Seth D. Kaplan

Multiple Contributors

Pursuit of Happiness

Jan 13, 2025

Understanding the Mission of Civic Thought

Reid Comstock

Multiple Contributors

Pursuit of Happiness

Jan 8, 2025

Getting Family Policy Wrong

John Shelton

Multiple Contributors

Pursuit of Happiness

Dec 30, 2024

Alienation and Apple

Rachel Lu

Multiple Contributors

Pursuit of Happiness

Dec 26, 2024

Building the American Revival

Ryan Bangert

Multiple Contributors

Pursuit of Happiness

Dec 19, 2024

Announcing Civitas Outlook

Ryan Streeter

Multiple Contributors

Pursuit of Happiness

Dec 12, 2024

Technology & Innovation

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Political Order and the Spartan Ideal

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Apr 10, 2025

American Covenant: How the Constitution Unified our Nation – and Could Again

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Mar 27, 2025

The Stoics on Simultaneous Mental Conflict

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Mar 25, 2025

Chrysippus and the Embodied Mind

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Mar 11, 2025

State Courts, Constitutions, and Abortion Policymaking After Dobbs

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Feb 27, 2025

Aristotle on the Initiation of Self-Movement and Action

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Feb 13, 2025

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