Civitas Outlook's Top 10 of 2025
We bring you our 10 top-performing essays for 2025.
1. Emina Melonic - Ken Burns' Egregious Omission
2. Thomas Howes - Tucker Carlson’s Sinking Ideological Ship
3. John Yoo - Does Federal Law Extend to Portlandia?
4. Steven Hayward - Trade Protection and Tariffs from Reagan to Trump
5. Richard Epstein - The Case Against Birthright Citizenship
6. John Yoo - Birthright Citizenship Is American Citizenship
7. John Yoo & Robert Delahunty - Breaking Watergate's Hold on the Presidency
8. Michael Toth - The Education Revolution Is Here and Parents and Children Are Winning
9. Lee E. Ohanian - Creating Affordable Housing Requires Just One Simple Legislative Change
Adams’ Duplicitous Cabinet
A reader who doesn’t share Chervinsky’s complacent certitudes might find everything to reject in her assertions.
The Mores of Machines
As AI agents begin to form societies of their own, the Frenchman who came to understand ours may yet again have the last word.
Gratitude, Grit, and Miracles: The New Facts of Jewish Life in America
Jews have rarely lived among neighbors who regarded their lives as valuable as anyone else’s — who would risk their own lives rather than look the other way.
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