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

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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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