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Another Reason for Regime Change: Iran’s Flagrant Assault on the Rules of War

Another Reason for Regime Change: Iran’s Flagrant Assault on the Rules of War

The rules of war are not complicated. Militaries may strike military targets. Militaries may not deliberately target civilians or threaten the commerce of neutral nations.

John Yoo
Politics
Apr 3, 2026

The Iran War and the Future of the American Right

The Iran War and the Future of the American Right

Politics in America is never settled, and the shape and depth of the conservative movement, and its influence on the GOP, is no exception.

Thomas D. Howes
Politics
Apr 3, 2026

Welcome to the Manosphere

Welcome to the Manosphere

What counter-programming might resonate, reaching young men with the message that unhealthy conspiracism and cartoonish machismo need not be a part of a healthy striver mentality?

Tal Fortgang
Pursuit of Happiness
Apr 3, 2026

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Another Reason for Regime Change: Iran’s Flagrant Assault on the Rules of War
John Yoo
Politics
Apr 3, 2026
The Iran War and the Future of the American Right
Thomas D. Howes
Politics
Apr 3, 2026
Welcome to the Manosphere
Tal Fortgang
Pursuit of Happiness
Apr 3, 2026
A Year of Tariff-Induced Stagnation
Richard Stern
Economic Dynamism
Apr 2, 2026
The Politicization of the Scientific Method
Richard Epstein
Politics
Apr 2, 2026
Celebrating Passover in Communist Exile
Juliana Geran Pilon
Pursuit of Happiness
Apr 1, 2026

Economic Dynamism

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

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There Is No Substitute for Free Trade and Deregulated Markets
Richard Epstein
Economic Dynamism
Apr 15, 2025
How Tariffs Starve U.S. Investment
David Hebert, Daniel J. Smith
Economic Dynamism
Apr 10, 2025
American Aspiration: Our Anti-Dynamism Problem
Ryan Streeter
Economic Dynamism
Apr 9, 2025
Trump's Tariff Fundamentalism
Richard Epstein
Economic Dynamism
Apr 7, 2025
Trade Protection and Tariffs from Reagan to Trump
Steven F. Hayward
Economic Dynamism
Apr 2, 2025
Transatlantic Trade War Produces No Winners
Richard Epstein
Economic Dynamism
Mar 26, 2025

Politics

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

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Crime and the Political Question
Zack Smith
Politics
Feb 3, 2025
Trudeau's Failure and Canada's Renewal
Geoffrey Sigalet
Politics
Jan 30, 2025
How One Simple Reform Can Improve Voting and Reduce Political Extremism
David C. Rose
Politics
Jan 27, 2025
What Kind of Democracy in America?
John Grove
Politics
Jan 22, 2025
Fire, Wind, and California
Richard Epstein
Politics
Jan 21, 2025
Rebuking the False Dichotomy of Progress vs. Reaction
Richard M. Reinsch II
Politics
Jan 20, 2025

Constitutionalism

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

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Dishonor and the Civil Service
Aaron L. Nielson
Constitutionalism
Mar 30, 2026
The Government Schools Persist in Mandating Gender Ideology
Sarah Parshall Perry
Constitutionalism
Mar 26, 2026
The Temptation of the Inferior “Imperial Judiciary”
Josh Blackman
Constitutionalism
Mar 17, 2026
Major Questions Doctrine and Its Bipartisan History
Aaron L. Nielson
Constitutionalism
Mar 16, 2026
Trump’s Tariff Tantrum
Richard Epstein
Constitutionalism
Feb 25, 2026
The Administrative State’s Sludge
Aaron L. Nielson
Constitutionalism
Feb 24, 2026

Pursuit of Happiness

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

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Welcome to the Manosphere
Tal Fortgang
Pursuit of Happiness
Apr 3, 2026
Celebrating Passover in Communist Exile
Juliana Geran Pilon
Pursuit of Happiness
Apr 1, 2026
The Dignity of Relational Beings
Ainsley Weber
Pursuit of Happiness
Mar 31, 2026
Adams’ Duplicitous Cabinet
Myron Magnet
Pursuit of Happiness
Mar 27, 2026
The Mores of Machines
Thomas Dias
Pursuit of Happiness
Mar 19, 2026
Gratitude, Grit, and Miracles: The New Facts of Jewish Life in America
Tal Fortgang
Pursuit of Happiness
Mar 17, 2026

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