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SAVING TREES, LOSING FORESTS

SETH D. KAPLAN





Americans today suffer from family disintegration, homelessness, racial
animosity, suicide, and deaths of despair — and on a scale without parallel
elsewhere in the developed world. These problems reflect Americans' social
breakdown: the fraying of the relationships that used to bind us to each other.
Yet our government bodies, philanthropists, and social entrepreneurs target
these challenges in separated siloes, often weakening the very relationships
people need in the process. They should rethink their approaches with a focus on
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OPPORTUNITY PLURALISM IN EDUCATION

BRUNO V. MANNO



Our education debates assume that the purpose of schooling is to accumulate
wealth, and that college is the way to obtain it. Both assumptions are mistaken.
They obscure the fact that there are multiple pathways to opportunity, and they
diminish the vital importance of social skills, relationships, and networks for
human flourishing. It is time to break free of these unquestioned beliefs.


CLASSICAL EDUCATION'S ARISTOCRACY OF ANYONE

MICAH MEADOWCROFT



Classical schools are distinctly American. Just as our country was founded both
as a modern engineering project and as a recollection of ancient political
philosophy and the traditional rights of Englishmen, the contemporary
classical-education movement is an act of construction — one might say an
invented tradition — seeking to revivify and participate in something that once
lived, and perhaps could again.


DOING BETTER, STILL FEELING WORSE

TOM MILLER



Working in American health-care policy imparts a keen sense of déjà vu. The
conditions that plague our health-care system today not only have deep
preexisting roots, but have been accurately diagnosed before. But diagnosis does
not ensure effective treatment. We continue to try the same failed prescriptions
and leave alternative paths forsaken. It is worth considering why.


A NEW ERA OF AMERICAN POLICING

JILLIAN SNIDER



To balance the competing demands for public safety and the fair and equal
treatment of all citizens, today’s law-enforcement agencies have to find ways to
be creative and agile. The history of policing demonstrates that departments
will only be able to take on these challenges if they rebuild public trust and
promote more cooperation with the communities they serve.


ESG AND THE STATES

ELI LEHRER



The Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) approach to investing has become
ubiquitous in corporate America, and has drawn a political response. But for all
the forceful rhetoric surrounding ESG efforts, the back and forth has not
offered much clear thinking about what ESG is, how it works, or what constitutes
an ESG regulation or law. Policymakers will need to do better.


THE CASE FOR FILIBUSTER REFORM

THOMAS HARVEY & THOMAS KOENIG



Our Constitution can't function unless Congress does. And at this point, making
Congress more functional will require the Senate to rethink the filibuster.
Supermajority requirements need not disappear, but they must be reconceived.
Only by granting lawmakers the power to enact more and better legislation can we
ensure that both Congress and the courts are fulfilling their roles in our
constitutional order. 


FINANCE AND THE GOOD

CHARLES W. CALOMIRIS



For financial power to serve the good, it must deliver good outcomes (such as
material wealth), but it also must be part of a defensible process of private
and public decision-making. Financial power, like all power, must be accountable
for employing good processes, as judged by the larger society. What would that
look like? And how would we achieve it?


GROWING OLD IN AMERICA

AARON BONDAR



The population of Americans aged 65 or older grew by a staggering 40% between
the 2010 and 2020 censuses. Given our graying society, you might suspect that
figuring out ways to best care for older Americans would dominate the national
conversation. But we mostly avoid the topic, and ignore its implications. To
approach the future responsibly, that must change.


THE EDUCATION OF ROBERT PUTNAM

LAWRENCE M. MEAD



Robert Putnam might be the best known political scientist in America. A longtime
professor at Harvard, he has published several books that recast our
understanding of important national questions. Considering his work, and the way
it has evolved, can teach us much not only about contemporary America, but about
modern social science — and how we might improve it. 


A MADISONIAN PARTY SYSTEM

DANIEL STID



What type of party system best suits the American regime? What can we do to
cultivate such a party system? Amid the current tumult and polarization of our
politics, much of it the result of the degradation of our parties, it behooves
us to seek answers to these questions, and to learn from past efforts to give
shape to the American party system.


ARISTOTLE'S LESSONS FOR A POLITICAL ANIMAL

LORRAINE SMITH PANGLE



Our perplexing tangle of social and political crises should point us to a
neglected source of wisdom, one outside but also a distant wellspring of our
American tradition: the classical republican Aristotle. In his political
writings, Aristotle attends less to specific policies and institutions than to
regimes and questions of character, which he sees as closely related — just as
we should today.


THE ART OUR NATION NEEDS

RYAN P. HANLEY



The relationship between politics and art is necessarily fraught. Politics often
isn't beautiful at all, and art made for political reasons is frequently as
horrifically ugly as a human creation can be. Yet when our politics has been
reduced to nothing but ugliness, we've reached a point where our political
restoration requires us to look beyond politics, to something more beautiful.

MEDIA

NOVEMBER 05, 2023


AMERICA’S PARTY SYSTEM AND THE PROBLEM OF UNION

The National Affairs Podcast, Episode 48: On fostering more pluralism and
pragmatism across our party system.








SEPTEMBER 10, 2023


DRUGS ARE KILLING MORE AMERICANS THAN EVER BEFORE. HOW SHOULD POLICYMAKERS
RESPOND?

The National Affairs Podcast, Episode 47: On taking America's drug crisis
seriously.








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HOW TO THINK ABOUT PATRIOTISM

WILFRED M. MCCLAY



Patriotism in the American context has always involved both a devotion to an
intricate latticework of ideals, sentiments, and overlapping loyalties, and also
a commitment to our unique traditions, culture, history, people, and land. These
two types of American patriotism are undeniably in tension, but the tension has
been a healthy one throughout our history. Since its founding, our nation's
universal ideals have meshed with, and derived strength from, Americans' local
and particular sentiments.

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UP AND DOWN WITH ECOLOGY—THE "ISSUE-ATTENTION CYCLE"

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The Public Interest was a quarterly public policy journal founded by Irving
Kristol and Daniel Bell in 1965. Throughout its four decades of publication,
ending in 2005, it offered incomparable insight and wisdom on a vast range of
challenges at the intersection of public affairs, culture, and political
economy—helping America better understand and govern itself in a tumultuous
time. National Affairs now hosts its archives, free of charge.

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PUTTING REGULATORS ON A BUDGET

JEFF ROSEN



The spending undertaken by federal appropriators — just like private businesses
and households — is restrained by a budget. But federal regulators face no such
constraints. They can impose costs on the economy without limit, as long as they
can somehow claim sufficient benefits connected to their rules. It is time for
Congress to establish a regulatory budget to contain the cost of our
administrative state.

SUMMER 2013


RELIGION AND THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC

GEORGE F. WILL



America has generally marked out a division of labor between the institutions of
politics and those of civil society, including and especially those of religion.
It is as the foremost of our civil-society institutions that religious
organizations play a crucial role in sustaining our distinctive system of
government — as shapers of citizens, and as limiting counterparts to the state.
That is why citizens concerned for our tradition of limited, constitutional
government should be friendly to the cause of American religion — even if they
are not believers themselves.

SUMMER 2018


THE FIRST AMERICAN FOUNDER

JAMES W. CEASER



Americans revere the nation's founders, and it seems perfectly natural that we
should. But we are never quite clear about exactly who counts as a founder, and
exactly for what. Our country had more than one beginning, and has several uses
for its several foundings. In fact, the idea of a national founding needed to be
introduced into our political vocabulary and developed into the core of our
self-understanding. The concept of the American founding itself had a founder. 

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