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Founder’s Letter: A Healthy Dose of Populism

We are winning only because our logic is inescapable and the quality of our work undeniable.

Men’s Realism

The masculinity crisis is serious but most solutions on offer are not

The Receding Democratic Majority

Demography may be destiny, but its party affiliation is not

Learning the Lessons of Supply-Side Economics

Conservatives should bring supply-side thinking to issues beyond business investment

Rebuilding the Supply-Side Platform

Boosting American investment and production when tax cuts will not

The Curse of Voodoo Economics

Conservatives should favor limited government, not reflexive tax cuts

Crop Cash

Support America’s farmers, but not with subsidies

Reverse Class Psychology

Reagan convinced workers to care about business, but who will teach business owners that labor matters too?

Flapper Economics

Turning the American citizen into “The Consumer”

Public Safety for Sale 

Surveying the wreckage from Wall Street’s collision with emergency services

Only Trump Could Confront China

The inside story of the trade negotiation that changed the world

Jobs Americans Would Do

A more productive conversation about raising workers’ wages

Founder’s Letter: The Libertarians Have Left the Building

On plotting the progress of a paradigm shift

Bad Trade

“Bad competitiveness” results in weakening demand, which either reduces global production or requires surging debt to maintain demand and production at its existing level. Perhaps that rings a bell, because it is the world we live in.

A Nation of Boys at Risk

After decades of intensive effort and investment to create an equitable education system, not least for girls and women, the nation finds itself with a peculiar predicament: It is boys who are falling behind furthest and fastest.

Don’t Trade on Me

America grew wealthy not from free trade, but behind some of the world’s most imposing protectionist barriers. In fact, the principal tradition of free trade one finds in American history was born in the Confederate South.

Pursuing the Reunification of Home and Work

The conflict between responsibilities at home and at work is largely the result of economic transitions to which we still—nearly a century after industrialization and 50 years into the modern feminist movement—have not adequately responded.

We Peasants of the Metaverse

As we are belatedly coming to realize, online territory must be regulated—by people, not merely by economic laws or algorithms—but we have no idea how or by whom.

Escaping the Bachelor’s Fad

For noncollege pathways to be viable, policymakers must reduce employers’ needless demand for college degrees.

Revitalizing the Federal Apprenticeship System

To capitalize on bipartisan support, federal apprenticeship programs must be rescued from sclerosis.

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