Commentary
Across Civitas Outlook and the broader media landscape, our scholars provide timely insights into issues of national significance.
Bad News for America Doomers
Prophecies of America’s downfall conflate the United States, a people and place, with the US government.
Religious Charter Schools Should Pass the Supreme Court Test
A case from Oklahoma will determine whether American education becomes more or less centralized, homogeneous, and anticompetitive.
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Religious Exemptions?: What the Free Exercise Clause Means
A conversation among three religious liberty scholars on the Free Exercise Clause’s original meaning.
Partisan Trust in the Federal Reserve
This paper examines partisanship in public perceptions of the Federal Reserve.
The American Dream Is Not a Coin Flip, and Wages Have Not Stagnated
This paper challenges the prevailing narrative that stagnant wages are causing the American dream to fade. It contrasts subjective public opinion with revised objective intergenerational mobility measures.
Political Economy and the Rise of Commercial Humanism
Western attitudes toward commerce have transformed from early moral condemnation to a modern appreciation that sees trade as socially beneficial.
Rational Nondelegation
The nondelegation doctrine, which forbids Congress from transferring excessive power to the executive branch, has risen from the dead.
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Red Veep
California’s Housing Problems Require a Better Solution than Densify, Densify, Densify
Trump’s Tariff Gambit: How to Win a Trade War with Mexico and Canada
Trump And Vance Aren’t Defying The Constitution, They’re Following It
Why Jews Are Fleeing the West
Charles Kesler’s Struggle for the Founders’ Constitution