WHY THESE PAPERS MATTER
The Constitution still stands, but the world around it has changed profoundly. Wealth and influence have become increasingly concentrated. Political disagreement has hardened into permanent hostility. Technology can inform the public, but it can also manipulate attention, reward outrage, distort truth and divide citizens into separate realities.
These papers examine the forces reshaping American life and ask what the principals of the Founding still ask of us
EXPLORE THE WORK
Latest Dispatches
The Cost of Endless WarOn the moral and fiscal peril of endless war
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NEO-FEDERALIST PAPERS
Enduring Arguments About the Condition of the Republic
Dispatches from Publius
Dispatches on Consequential Financial and Political Events
We Ask the Hard and Uncomfortable Questions
What has happened to the Republic when we are assaulted from every side
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Founders at the Table
Hamilton, Madison, Jay, Franklin around a Table as they Meet and Confront he Modern Age
Echoes from the Past
Listen to the Wisdom of the Ages and they ask the questions we shy away from
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