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The Trucking Crackdown Doesn't Go Far Enough
Trump is on the right road, but it’s going to take more to end dangerous trucking in America.
Jul 5
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Gord Magill
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Autonomous Truck(er)s
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13
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The Industrial Foundation of America
In both gunpowder and policy, the Continental Congress holds lessons for today.
Jul 2
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Conner Brace
28
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7
Falling Fertility Is a Bipartisan Tragedy
No one should celebrate the widening fertility gap between conservatives and liberals.
Jul 1
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Grant J. Bailey
18
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June 2026
Training the Whole Worker with Dr. Jacob Imam
The president of the College of St. Joseph the Worker offers a new approach to build tactile skills into a liberal arts education.
Jun 30
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Oren Cass
and
Chris Griswold
3
46:04
Flapper Economics
Turning the American citizen into ‘The Consumer.’
Jun 28
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Philip Jeffery
20
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Cutting Bait on a Bad War
And more from this week…
Jun 26
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Oren Cass
and
Daniel Kishi
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28
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Tariffs Are Only Half the Battle
America needs a strategy to revive its core industries.
Jun 25
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Matthew Lynn
25
12
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Tenuous Ties
For American men without college degrees, new relationships are hard to make and existing ones are easy to break.
Jun 24
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Sam Pressler
and
Soren Duggan
27
29
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Safety Nets Have Strings Attached
And more from last week…
Jun 22
•
Oren Cass
and
Daniel Kishi
27
37
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What Not to Do About Gerontocracy
Samuel Moyn is right that we have a boomer problem. He’s wrong about everything else.
Jun 21
•
Declan Leary
31
61
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When There’s No One to Call with Sam Pressler
New research on the dangerous lack of social bonds for men without college degrees.
Jun 19
•
Oren Cass
,
Chris Griswold
, and
Sam Pressler
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4
57:00
Against Trump Accounts: A Debate
A uniquely bad version of an old, bad idea.
Jun 18
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Michael Lind
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