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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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Waging Municipal Lawfare

Waging Municipal Lawfare

The limited authority of local governments to initiate public interest litigation is a matter of law, not politics.

Doug Peterson, Michael Toth
Constitutionalism
Oct 23, 2025

What Game Are We Playing?

What Game Are We Playing?

If you decide to play Calvinball, you have become a partisan of Calvinball.

John Grove
Constitutionalism
Oct 23, 2025

Trump's Industrial Policies Will Strangle Growth

Trump's Industrial Policies Will Strangle Growth

The public should doubt that the feds can run the nation’s businesses. 

Richard Epstein
Economic Dynamism
Oct 22, 2025

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Waging Municipal Lawfare
Doug Peterson, Michael Toth
Constitutionalism
Oct 23, 2025
What Game Are We Playing?
John Grove
Constitutionalism
Oct 23, 2025
Trump's Industrial Policies Will Strangle Growth
Richard Epstein
Economic Dynamism
Oct 22, 2025
Does Federal Law Extend to Portlandia?
John Yoo
Constitutionalism
Oct 22, 2025
Bodies, Selves, and the Quest for Identity
Rachel Lu
Pursuit of Happiness
Oct 21, 2025
Creed, Culture, and American Memory
Wilfred McClay
Constitutionalism
Oct 21, 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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Why Israel May Sue the New York Times
Richard Epstein
Politics
Aug 28, 2025
The Constitutional Questions Swirling Around the District of Columbia’s Disorder
Zack Smith
Politics
Aug 25, 2025
Chicago: The First Domino to Fall?
Thomas Savidge
Politics
Aug 14, 2025
The Truth That Frank Meyer Knew
Brian C. Anderson
Politics
Aug 13, 2025
Rise of the Silicon Valley Patriots?
Richard M. Reinsch II
Politics
Aug 12, 2025
Is Trump Completing Nixon's Aborted Second Term?
Steven F. Hayward
Politics
Aug 11, 2025

Constitutionalism

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

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Free Speech and the American University: A Proposal
Hadley Arkes
Constitutionalism
Oct 7, 2025
Speech on Campus Must Build the Academic Community
Larry Arnn
Constitutionalism
Oct 7, 2025
Free Speech and Common Sense Need New Champions
Mark Bauerlein
Constitutionalism
Oct 7, 2025
The Telos of Free Speech and the University 
Justin Dyer
Constitutionalism
Oct 7, 2025
Truth and the University
David F. Forte
Constitutionalism
Oct 7, 2025
It Begins With Courage
Mark Helprin
Constitutionalism
Oct 7, 2025

Pursuit of Happiness

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

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Bodies, Selves, and the Quest for Identity
Rachel Lu
Pursuit of Happiness
Oct 21, 2025
A Doctor In Full
Ronald W. Dworkin
Pursuit of Happiness
Oct 17, 2025
Racing Earnhardt
Emina Melonic
Pursuit of Happiness
Oct 17, 2025
Dallin Oaks: From Legal Giant to Leader of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Aaron L. Nielson
Pursuit of Happiness
Oct 15, 2025
Conversion by Inches?
Brian Smith
Pursuit of Happiness
Oct 10, 2025
Did Leo Strauss Get Religion?
Paul Seaton
Pursuit of Happiness
Oct 3, 2025

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