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Civitas Outlook

Civitas Outlook is the online journal of the Civitas Institute. The journal represents a community of scholars and thinkers who write about the core ideas of freedom and virtue, constitutionalism, economic growth, and dynamism crucial to citizenship and flourishing as human persons in a free society.

The opinions expressed in Civitas Outlook are solely those of the writers and do not reflect those of the Civitas Institute or the University of Texas at Austin.

Richard M. Reinsch II

Editor-in-chief of Civitas Outlook

Richard M. Reinsch II is editor in chief of the Civitas Institute’s Civitas Outlook. He was the founding editor of the online magazine Law & Liberty. Immediately before joining Civitas, he was the editor-in-chief and director of publications at the American Institute for Economic Research (AIER). Previously, he served as director of the B. Kenneth Simon Center for American Studies and AWC Family Foundation Fellow at the Heritage Foundation.

He is the editor of The Civitas Collection 250, a new volume of scholarly essays published by the Civitas Institute on the Declaration of Independence.

Reinsch’s books include A Constitution in Full: The Unwritten Foundation of American Liberty (University Press of Kansas, 2019), which he coauthored with Peter Lawler, and Whittaker Chambers: The Spirit of a Counterrevolutionary (ISI Books, 2010). He has also been widely published in the popular press and in policy journals, including Perspectives on Political Science, The Journal of Contemporary Legal Issues, National Affairs, Wall Street Journal, Commentary, Spectator, Religion & Liberty, Modern Age, National Review, and Washington Examiner. He holds a J.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Contributing Editors

Samuel Gregg
Samuel Gregg
Friedrich Hayek Chair in Economics and Economic History at the American Institute for Economic Research.
Veronique de Rugy
Veronique de Rugy
George Gibbs Chair in Political Economy and Senior Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University and a nationally syndicated columnist.
Joseph Postell
Joseph Postell
Associate Professor of Politics at Hillsdale College.
Scott Winship
Scott Winship
Senior Fellow and Director of the Center on Opportunity and Social Mobility at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI).
Jonathan H. Adler
Jonathan H. Adler
Inaugural Johan Verheij Memorial Professor of Law and the founding Director of the Coleman P. Burke Center for Environmental Law at the Case Western Reserve University School of Law.
Yuval Levin
Yuval Levin
Director of Social, Cultural, and Constitutional Studies at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where he also holds the Beth and Ravenel Curry Chair in Public Policy. He is the founder and editor of National Affairs.
Josh Blackman
Josh Blackman
Professor of Law and Centennial Chair of Constitutional Law at South Texas College of Law Houston.
Steven F. Hayward
Steven F. Hayward
Steven F. Hayward is the Edward Gaylord distinguished visiting professor at Pepperdine University’s School of Public Policy.
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