Quick Takes: Why Rent Control Backfires
Three professors on what the research says about capping rents
Essays
The Lake Tahoe Paradox
From fragmentation to the promise of rural civil society
The National Security Externality Can’t Justify Recent Tariffs
National security may justify some kinds of tariffs—in theory. In practice, it’s another story.
The Eighteenth Brumaire and Collective Wrong
What Napoleon’s nephew can teach us about populism.
Liberalism in the Age of Weaponized Interdependence
Liberalism must abandon the assumption that, in international trade, cooperation is the mature stage, and conflict the primitive one.
Private Property, Liberalism, and Human Flourishing
Private property allows individuals to pursue happiness through their own free choices. It also shields our individual and institutional activities from...
Realism, Idealism, and a Balanced Foreign Policy
The last thirty years have been a time of extremes in American foreign policy. How can liberals get the balance right?
Seeing with Two I’s: States, Markets, and Some Advice for Us Liberals
Markets may fail; governments may help, or not. Two unlikely thinkers help explain the limits of what we can know.