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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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Trump's Greenland Aggression

Trump's Greenland Aggression

Richard Epstein on the Greenland capers.

Richard Epstein
Politics
Jan 22, 2026

McNamara in the Rear-View Mirror

McNamara in the Rear-View Mirror

There is much more to the McNamara story than simply a Ford CEO becoming a government executive, as Philip and William Taubman lay out in McNamara at War: A New History.

Tevi Troy
Pursuit of Happiness
Jan 22, 2026

The Civitas Outlook Energy Symposium

The Civitas Outlook Energy Symposium

Energy policy in America has become, over the past few decades, one of the most fraught debates in American politics.

Richard M. Reinsch II
Economic Dynamism
Jan 21, 2026

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Skrmetti and Chief Roberts's Immoderate Middle Ground Jurisprudence
Sarah Parshall Perry
Constitutionalism
Jun 30, 2025
It's Time to Revisit McDonnell Douglas
MIchael Toth
Constitutionalism
Jun 30, 2025
Will Platonic Guardians End Mass Incarceration?
Paul J. Larkin
Politics
Jun 27, 2025
Adventures Among the Abundanauts
Steven F. Hayward
Economic Dynamism
Jun 26, 2025
The Supreme Court Will Review New Waves of Litigation against the Oil Industry
Michael Toth
Economic Dynamism
Jun 25, 2025
A Supreme Course Correction for NEPA
Jonathan H. Adler
Economic Dynamism
Jun 25, 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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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
The Quantum Revolution and the Human Spirit
Rob Koons
Pursuit of Happiness
Apr 25, 2025
The Civis in Civic Architecture
Paul Zepeda
Pursuit of Happiness
Apr 17, 2025
The Return of the Natural Law
Samuel Gregg
Pursuit of Happiness
Apr 14, 2025
Faith, Reason, & Liberation
Nathaniel Peters
Pursuit of Happiness
Apr 7, 2025

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