Commentary
Across Civitas Outlook and the broader media landscape, our scholars provide timely insights into issues of national significance.
Exodus: Affordability Crisis Sends Americans Packing From Big Cities
The first in a two-part series about the Great Dispersion of Americans across the country.
Demystifying the New Deal
Carola Binder reviews False Dawn: The New Deal and the Promise of Recovery, 1933–1947 by George Selgin
Content
Rational Judicial Review: Constitutions as Power-sharing Agreements, Secession, and the Problem of Dred Scott
Judicial review and originalism serve as valuable commitment mechanisms to enforce future compliance with a political bargain.
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Amicus Brief: Chevron U.S.A. Inc. v. Plaquemines Parish
Civitas Research Fellow Michael Toth's work was cited in a Supreme Court brief.
The Causal Effect of News on Inflation Expectations
This paper studies the response of household inflation expectations to television news coverage of inflation.
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The Rise of Inflation Targeting
This paper discusses the interactions between politics and economic ideas leading to the adoption of inflation targeting in the United States.
Epstein & Yoo: Amicus Brief in Supreme Court of Maryland
Civitas Senior Research Fellows Richard Epstein and John Yoo, alongside the Mountain States Legal Foundation, filed an amicus brief in the Supreme Court of Maryland.
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Can Tariffs Replace Income Taxes?
The Moral Collapse on Campus Is a Result of the Hollowing Out of the Humanities
DC and LA Failures Play Into Trump’s Hands
Climate Lawyers Try a New Approach
YIMBYs Are Killing off the Family Home
Democracy in Britain: The Lords’ Work