Defending Freedom
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Professionals to ‘Labor’: Why California’s Doctors Are Unionizing
California’s unionization campaign reveals the economic and institutional shifts away from physician ownership and professional autonomy.
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Free Trade: The Consensus Is Growing
What economists have argued for generations is now reflected in public opinion: Americans see free trade as the better alternative to protectionism.
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Upward Mobility Is a Better Measure of Justice Than Income Equality
If your wealthy boss earns less, will you earn more? France’s compressed salary scale shows more ‘equal’ pay clusters at levels that could keep you both poorer.
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Trump Uses NATO Summit to Reinforce Mercantilist Policy
NATO members are finally taking more responsibility for their own defense. Using those security commitments to squeeze trading partners threatens markets and undermines diplomacy.
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Social Security Is Not a Generational Contract
The rhetoric of a “generational compact” sounds compelling until you ask who actually agreed to it — and who pays for it.
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Rereading the Declaration in an Age of Polarization
A new collection from Civitas explores old arguments about what the Declaration means — and who gets to define the nation’s founding ideals.
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Does Funding Research Give Government a Claim to Tech Firms?
Public research may contribute to private innovation, but causal influence does not give government an ownership stake.
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Unfinished Republic: What I’m Teaching My Daughter About America’s Founding
Americans fall short of our founding ideal that all are created equal. But reformers have fought ever since to fulfill that promise.
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Memorial Day and Remote War: Has Our Nation Lost Its Capacity to Mourn?
Americans now experience war more as an economic abstraction than a human catastrophe. Amid endless debt-financed conflict, have we forgotten war’s tragic cost?
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Why Libertarianism Keeps Splintering
Uneasy “fusion” coalitions periodically unite competing visions of liberty and political order. But a coalition of individualists was never likely to stay tidy.
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Professionals to ‘Labor’: Why California’s Doctors Are Unionizing
California’s unionization campaign reveals the economic and institutional shifts away from physician ownership and professional autonomy.
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Free Trade: The Consensus Is Growing
What economists have argued for generations is now reflected in public opinion: Americans see free trade as the better alternative to protectionism.
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Upward Mobility Is a Better Measure of Justice Than Income Equality
If your wealthy boss earns less, will you earn more? France’s compressed salary scale shows more ‘equal’ pay clusters at levels that could keep you both poorer.
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Trump Uses NATO Summit to Reinforce Mercantilist Policy
NATO members are finally taking more responsibility for their own defense. Using those security commitments to squeeze trading partners threatens markets and undermines diplomacy.
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Social Security Is Not a Generational Contract
The rhetoric of a “generational compact” sounds compelling until you ask who actually agreed to it — and who pays for it.
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Rereading the Declaration in an Age of Polarization
A new collection from Civitas explores old arguments about what the Declaration means — and who gets to define the nation’s founding ideals.
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Does Funding Research Give Government a Claim to Tech Firms?
Public research may contribute to private innovation, but causal influence does not give government an ownership stake.
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Unfinished Republic: What I’m Teaching My Daughter About America’s Founding
Americans fall short of our founding ideal that all are created equal. But reformers have fought ever since to fulfill that promise.
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Memorial Day and Remote War: Has Our Nation Lost Its Capacity to Mourn?
Americans now experience war more as an economic abstraction than a human catastrophe. Amid endless debt-financed conflict, have we forgotten war’s tragic cost?
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Why Libertarianism Keeps Splintering
Uneasy “fusion” coalitions periodically unite competing visions of liberty and political order. But a coalition of individualists was never likely to stay tidy.