What role does economic policy have to play in advancing a conservative agenda? Should the American right move away from a commitment to an unfettered free market and embrace nationalism, protectionism, and more government support for families?
Author: Patrick T. Brown (Patrick T. Brown)
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Pro-Natalism from the Left
“One Billion Americans” is more than a cheeky provocation. It is a reflection on what it might take to restore American vitality, and the policy steps needed to get us there.
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Christopher Caldwell Is Not Here to Give You Hope
In The Age of Entitlement, Christopher Caldwell chronicles our increased willingness to eat our seed corn and inability to propagate the future. But the questions he raises require a treatment other than borrowing the frameworks of progressive theorists and drawing different conclusions that suggest an inescapable logic of racial resentment.
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Our Little Platoons Need Reinforcements
In Alienated America, Tim Carney paints a picture of a nation riven by a social capital divide, a divide that has led to the rise of populism and socialism. Our task is to rebuild civil society. This work need not wait for enabling legislation, the seizing of the means of production, or a national declaration of fealty to Rome. It can—and should—be undertaken today.
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Man Does Not Live By Economic Growth Alone
“Economic piety” has led to an overemphasis on consumption, writes Oren Cass in The Once and Future Worker. If we value family and community life, we need a labor policy that is explicitly intended to sustain them.
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Toward an Urban Conservativism: Learning the Right Lessons from 2016
Facing an increasingly divided nation, the conservative movement must offer policies addressing the reality of life in urban centers.
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What Creative Fiction Can (and Cannot) Do
To engage and shape the culture, we must understand the power of storytelling—and respect its limits.