Politics
Jan 28, 2026

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.

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Politics
Jan 28, 2026

The Politics and Policies of Growth

The door is once again open to growth-first thinking.

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Politics
Jan 27, 2026

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.

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Looking For Solidarity in the Wrong Place

Constitutionalism
Jan 27, 2026
Looking For Solidarity in the Wrong Place

Will Minneapolis Trigger the Insurrection Act?

Politics
Jan 26, 2026
Will Minneapolis Trigger the Insurrection Act?

The AI Frontier Must be Fiercely Competitive

Pursuit of Happiness
Jan 23, 2026
The AI Frontier Must be Fiercely Competitive
Economic Dynamism
January 28, 2026

Green Energy Dreams, Fossil Fuel Realities

Mark Mills joins the show to discuss the misguided and often fraudulent claim that green energy can replace fossil fuels.

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The Politics and Policies of Growth

The door is once again open to growth-first thinking.

Veronique de Rugy
Jan 28, 2026
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.

Josh Blackman
Jan 27, 2026
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.

Joseph Postell
Jan 27, 2026
Will Minneapolis Trigger the Insurrection Act?

President Donald Trump appears poised to invoke the Insurrection Act to quell the rising violence in Minnesota.

Jan 26, 2026
The AI Frontier Must be Fiercely Competitive

In the long run, overregulation could run the risk of making AI less safe.

Kevin Frazier
Jan 23, 2026
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.

Benjamin P. Haines
Jan 23, 2026
Trump's Greenland Aggression

Richard Epstein on the Greenland capers.

Richard Epstein
Jan 22, 2026
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?

Russ Greene
Jan 21, 2026
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.

Steven F. Hayward
Jan 21, 2026
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.

Mark Mills
Jan 21, 2026
Trump's Troubling Economic Turn

How far will current economic regulations go in the Trump White House?

Jan 16, 2026
The Poverty of Vanceonomics

At the core of Vanceonomics is a preferential option for government intervention.

Jan 14, 2026
Entrepreneurial Freedom in the Age of AI

The AI economy can lead to a more inclusive economy that permits people the freedom to choose when they work, what they work on, and who they work for.

Jan 12, 2026
Why Can't the Middle Class Invest Like Mitt Romney?

Why can’t middle-income Americans pay effectively no taxes on investments like the wealthy do? 

Dec 30, 2025
The Politics and Policies of Growth

The door is once again open to growth-first thinking.

Veronique de Rugy
Jan 28, 2026
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.

Josh Blackman
Jan 27, 2026
Will Minneapolis Trigger the Insurrection Act?

President Donald Trump appears poised to invoke the Insurrection Act to quell the rising violence in Minnesota.

Jan 26, 2026
Trump's Greenland Aggression

Richard Epstein on the Greenland capers.

Richard Epstein
Jan 22, 2026
The War on Affordable and Abundant Energy Continues

With climate litigation faltering, the decarbonization effort is shifting to state legislatures.

Michael Toth
Jan 21, 2026
The Case for a U.S. – Canadian Union

Given the immensity of common interests among them, why haven't the U.S. and Canada struck up a formal economic union?

Arthur Herman
Jan 20, 2026
Selling America Short

What has enhanced America’s reputation are the sacrifices we have made for our long-term self-interest.

Jan 19, 2026
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?

Aaron L. Nielson
Jan 20, 2026
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?

John G. Malcolm, Richard Stern
Jan 15, 2026
Limiting the Federal Government

Failure to consider the sponsors’ representations of the Constitution’s meaning seriously impairs the quality of interpretation.

Jan 14, 2026
The Chief Justice's Big Idea

Chief Justice John Roberts has a potentially major idea for federal agency power.

Aaron L. Nielson
Jan 6, 2026
Congress, the President, and the Drug Boats

Lethargy in the legislature is no way to counter the executive's excess energy.

Jan 2, 2026
Just Follow the Law

By definition, no one can lawfully disobey the law. The problem, though, is that it can be difficult to know what the law requires, even for legal experts.

Aaron L. Nielson
Dec 17, 2025
Obamacare Should No Longer be SCOTUScare

Whatever one makes of the Supreme Court’s “why bother” attitude to its prior statutory rulings, Republican leaders in Congress should accept the invitation to provide a legal fix to Obamacare.

Michael Toth
Dec 10, 2025
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.

Benjamin P. Haines
Jan 23, 2026
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.

Tevi Troy
Jan 22, 2026
The Quintessential American: Ben Franklin, Man of All Ages

Franklin’s prudence is as welcome 300 years on as his legendary serenity.

Juliana Geran Pilon
Jan 16, 2026
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.

David C. Rose
Jan 15, 2026
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.

Jonathan Hartley
Jan 6, 2026
Thank You, Ben

You gave me a great gift, Ben: the reminder that, because life is finite, whatever good we can do for others must be our daily task, to help others in need.

Dec 31, 2025
Civitas Outlook's Top 10 of 2025

Our 10 most read essays in 2025.

Dec 29, 2025
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Since the self-conscious conservative movement came together in the 1950s, a "new right" has emerged every few years.

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