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One Nation Spaced Out
Kevin Sabet’s new book addresses a problem that has bedeviled us for thousands of years: What should individuals and society do about the use of psychoactive substances?
Trump's Jeffersonian Foreign Policy
The Constitution creates a presidency that can respond forcefully to prevent serious threats to our national security.
How FDR’s Bold Experimentation Blinkered the American Economy
Overall, False Dawn is a disciplined, evidence-heavy challenge to the New Deal’s most self-flattering myth: that bold experimentation rescued the American economy.
ICE and the Fourth Amendment
The agency needs judicial oversight, not so-called administrative warrants.
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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.
From Energy Repression to Energy Dominance
Even the most powerful computers on earth have no idea how much energy America will need for the next generation. What, then, is the path forward?
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America’s Energy Revolution Continues
Twenty years ago, energy discourse was awash in buzzwords and concepts such as "smart grid" and "hydrogen highway." These ideas now seem as quaint and obsolete as rotary dial telephones.
Oil Remains the Epicenter of Commerce, Geopolitics, and Energy
The question for framing next generation energy policies distills to knowing whether there are any truly new means for meeting society’s energy needs.
Trump's Troubling Economic Turn
How far will current economic regulations go in the Trump White House?
How FDR’s Bold Experimentation Blinkered the American Economy
Overall, False Dawn is a disciplined, evidence-heavy challenge to the New Deal’s most self-flattering myth: that bold experimentation rescued the American economy.
Might the "New Right 5.0" Be the Old Fusionism?
Since the self-conscious conservative movement came together in the 1950s, a "new right" has emerged every few years.
Anti-Semitism and Anti-Christian Zionism On The Right
As the very bounds of conservatism continue to ebb and flow, stark lines are being drawn of how those on the right view Israel and the Jewish people.
ICE and the Fourth Amendment
The agency needs judicial oversight, not so-called administrative warrants.
Looking For Solidarity in the Wrong Place
Only by drawing a caricature of American legal history can R. R. Reno assert that we need a figure like Woodrow Wilson to correct liberalism’s excesses.
Why is the Federal Reserve Special — and Just How Special is It?
How does the Fed fit into the Court's reform of the administrative state?
Kneecapping Powell, Undermining the Rule of Law
Donald Trump and conservatives know the perils of lawfare all too well. Why subject Jerome Powell to the same thing?
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The AI Frontier Must be Fiercely Competitive
In the long run, overregulation could run the risk of making AI less safe.
What Is History's Role in Civic Education?
Regrettable trends within the professional discipline of history have forfeited its vaunted former status in civic education.
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.
The Quintessential American: Ben Franklin, Man of All Ages
Franklin’s prudence is as welcome 320 years on as his legendary serenity.
The Moral Case for America in a Nutshell
America’s proponents now have no choice but to articulate their own simple and effective moral case for our way of life.
The Wealth of Nations at 250: Adam Smith’s Blueprint for the American Economy
Ideas of few books have shaped the economic logic of the American experiment more profoundly than The Wealth of Nations, even when Americans have not always realized it as an agent that promotes prosperity and reduces poverty.
