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Days of DOGE: A Civitas Outlook Symposium

Days of DOGE: A Civitas Outlook Symposium

What can DOGE accomplish?

Richard M. Reinsch II
Constitutionalism
Apr 8, 2025

The Hard Limits on DOGE

The Hard Limits on DOGE

Set in the correct context, DOGE is a valuable tool. Elevated beyond its station, it is counterproductive.

Charles C.W. Cooke
Constitutionalism
Apr 8, 2025

Making DOGE Constitutional

Making DOGE Constitutional

DOGE’s work can be legitimated through the path of rescission outlined by the Impoundment Control Act.

Yuval Levin
Constitutionalism
Apr 8, 2025

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Days of DOGE: A Civitas Outlook Symposium
Richard M. Reinsch II
Constitutionalism
Apr 8, 2025
The Hard Limits on DOGE
Charles C.W. Cooke
Constitutionalism
Apr 8, 2025
Making DOGE Constitutional
Yuval Levin
Constitutionalism
Apr 8, 2025
DOGE & USAID
Robert Delahunty
Constitutionalism
Apr 8, 2025
DOGE Is a Dodge
Robert P. Beschel Jr.
Constitutionalism
Apr 8, 2025
Trump's Tariff Fundamentalism
Richard Epstein
Economic Dynamism
Apr 7, 2025

Economic Dynamism

We consider the principles, policies, and culture that supports free market capitalism

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Trump's Tariff Fundamentalism
Richard Epstein
Economic Dynamism
Apr 7, 2025
Trade Protection and Tariffs from Reagan to Trump
Steven F. Hayward
Economic Dynamism
Apr 2, 2025
Transatlantic Trade War Produces No Winners
Richard Epstein
Economic Dynamism
Mar 26, 2025
The Nadir of the Climate Change Movement
Steven F. Hayward
Economic Dynamism
Mar 21, 2025
The Economic Harm That Is Coming
Veronique de Rugy
Economic Dynamism
Mar 13, 2025
Solving the Housing Crisis: A Symposium
Richard M. Reinsch II
Economic Dynamism
Mar 12, 2025

Politics

We investigate what it means to be a constitutional people who remain tethered to the rule of law.

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Repudiating Genesis
Juliana Geran Pilon
Politics
Apr 3, 2025
Pierre Manent Investigates Europe's Democracy Crisis
Paul Seaton
Politics
Apr 1, 2025
Thatcher and the Conservative Party, Fifty Years Later
Charles C. W. Cooke
Politics
Mar 31, 2025
Solzhenitsyn’s One Word of Truth
Richard Reinsch
Politics
Mar 28, 2025
The Looming Debt Crisis, the Trump Tax Cuts, and Medicaid
Scott Winship
Politics
Mar 27, 2025
Foucault’s “Discipline and Punish" at 50
Paul Seaton
Politics
Mar 19, 2025

Constitutionalism

We discuss the political thought that undergirds a society of freedom and virtue.

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Days of DOGE: A Civitas Outlook Symposium
Richard M. Reinsch II
Constitutionalism
Apr 8, 2025
The Hard Limits on DOGE
Charles C.W. Cooke
Constitutionalism
Apr 8, 2025
Making DOGE Constitutional
Yuval Levin
Constitutionalism
Apr 8, 2025
DOGE & USAID
Robert Delahunty
Constitutionalism
Apr 8, 2025
DOGE Is a Dodge
Robert P. Beschel Jr.
Constitutionalism
Apr 8, 2025
Shaking the Foundations of the Administrative State
John Yoo
Constitutionalism
Apr 4, 2025

Pursuit of Happiness

We explore how citizens, neighbors, workers, families, and communities shape the future of American society.

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Faith, Reason, & Liberation
Nathaniel Peters
Pursuit of Happiness
Apr 7, 2025
The Land of Fear and Awe
Emina Melonic
Pursuit of Happiness
Mar 27, 2025
The Mind in a Mustard Seed
Spencer A. Klavan
Pursuit of Happiness
Mar 25, 2025
American Education's Need for a New Founding
Tal Fortgang
Pursuit of Happiness
Mar 6, 2025
Why Endowments of Educational Institutions Shouldn't be Taxed
Erik M. Jensen
Pursuit of Happiness
Feb 27, 2025
The Next Step for School Choice: Get It Right
John Grove
Pursuit of Happiness
Feb 26, 2025

Technology & Innovation

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