David Brooks celebrates Brewer’s essay, “The Great Malformation.”
Kyle Edward Williams tells the untold story of how efforts to hold big business accountable changed American capitalism.
John M. Owen IV explains how democracies compete with autocracies to bias international order in their favor—and why democracies are losing.
Mary F. Scudder and Stephen K. White write about deliberation, agonism, and the crisis of democracy.
Institute Visiting Fellow Jackson Lears’s new book, Animal Spirits: The American Pursuit of Vitality from Camp Meeting to Wall Street, was published this week by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Senior Fellow John Owen was interviewed. by UVAToday for a profile titled "John Owen Welcomes Healthy Debate About a Contentious World in His Classroom."
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