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

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The AI Frontier Must be Fiercely Competitive

The AI Frontier Must be Fiercely Competitive

In the long run, overregulation could run the risk of making AI less safe.

Kevin Frazier
Pursuit of Happiness
Jan 23, 2026

What Is History's Role in Civic Education?

What Is History's Role in Civic Education?

Regrettable trends within the professional discipline of history have forfeited its vaunted former status in civic education.

Benjamin P. Haines
Pursuit of Happiness
Jan 23, 2026

Trump's Greenland Aggression

Trump's Greenland Aggression

Richard Epstein on the Greenland capers.

Richard Epstein
Politics
Jan 22, 2026

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Love, Hedges, and Bad Neighborhoods
Leonidas Zelmanovitz
Economic Dynamism
Apr 22, 2025
The Young Americas Need Each Other
G. Patrick Lynch
Economic Dynamism
Apr 22, 2025
Woke Despotism Meets the Counterrevolution
Richard M. Reinsch II
Politics
Apr 21, 2025
A Battle for the Rule of Law
John Grove
Constitutionalism
Apr 18, 2025
Can We Replay McKinley-ism?
Nicholas Mosvick
Politics
Apr 18, 2025
The Civis in Civic Architecture
Paul Zepeda
Pursuit of Happiness
Apr 17, 2025

Economic Dynamism

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

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The Civitas Outlook Energy Symposium
Richard M. Reinsch II
Economic Dynamism
Jan 21, 2026
From Energy Repression to Energy Dominance
Russ Greene
Economic Dynamism
Jan 21, 2026
America’s Energy Revolution Continues
Steven F. Hayward
Economic Dynamism
Jan 21, 2026
Oil Remains the Epicenter of Commerce, Geopolitics, and Energy
Mark Mills
Economic Dynamism
Jan 21, 2026
Trump's Troubling Economic Turn
Economic Dynamism
Jan 16, 2026
The Poverty of Vanceonomics
Economic Dynamism
Jan 14, 2026

Politics

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

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Trump's Greenland Aggression
Richard Epstein
Politics
Jan 22, 2026
The War on Affordable and Abundant Energy Continues
Michael Toth
Politics
Jan 21, 2026
The Case for a U.S. – Canadian Union
Arthur Herman
Politics
Jan 20, 2026
Selling America Short
Politics
Jan 19, 2026
Trial Lawyers and the Future of Oil & Gas in the Bayou
Michael Toth
Politics
Jan 19, 2026
Prosecuting Maduro
Paul J. Larkin
Politics
Jan 13, 2026

Constitutionalism

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

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Why Is the Federal Reserve Special — and Just How Special Is It?
Aaron L. Nielson
Constitutionalism
Jan 20, 2026
Kneecapping Powell, Undermining the Rule of Law
John G. Malcolm, Richard Stern
Constitutionalism
Jan 15, 2026
Limiting the Federal Government
Constitutionalism
Jan 14, 2026
The Chief Justice's Big Idea
Aaron L. Nielson
Constitutionalism
Jan 6, 2026
Congress, the President, and the Drug Boats
Constitutionalism
Jan 2, 2026
Just Follow the Law
Aaron L. Nielson
Constitutionalism
Dec 17, 2025

Pursuit of Happiness

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

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The AI Frontier Must be Fiercely Competitive
Kevin Frazier
Pursuit of Happiness
Jan 23, 2026
What Is History's Role in Civic Education?
Benjamin P. Haines
Pursuit of Happiness
Jan 23, 2026
McNamara in the Rear-View Mirror
Tevi Troy
Pursuit of Happiness
Jan 22, 2026
The Quintessential American: Ben Franklin, Man of All Ages
Juliana Geran Pilon
Pursuit of Happiness
Jan 16, 2026
The Moral Case for America in a Nutshell
David C. Rose
Pursuit of Happiness
Jan 15, 2026
The Wealth of Nations at 250: Adam Smith’s Blueprint for the American Economy
Jonathan Hartley
Pursuit of Happiness
Jan 6, 2026

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