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Long viewed with suspicion by many on the left, free markets today face skepticism from factions on both the left and the right. These challenges go far beyond the technical and the legal: They suggest we need to remind ourselves of some of the basic...| www.nationalaffairs.com
An existential identity crisis now grips the American right. Long rooted in the principles of limited constitutional government, moral order, and tradition, it now too often defines itself simply by opposition to the excesses of the left. This has dr...| www.nationalaffairs.com
In recent years, under the approving eyes of the American Medical Association and other professional groups, political advocates have shifted the primary mission of medicine toward social justice and the core identity of the physician toward activist...| www.nationalaffairs.com
By allowing some lands now owned by the federal government to become new communities — exempted from some state and federal regulations in return for meeting some key benchmarks and conceived as experiments in both new modes of self-government and ne...| www.nationalaffairs.com
As the parties have been increasingly captured by their ideological extremes in recent decades, the space for cross-party coalition building has shrunk. Some reformers argue that only third parties can help, but this solution has never been realistic...| www.nationalaffairs.com
It is often not so much the size as the complexity and incoherence of our government that makes it seem out of control. Because our constitutional system requires the cooperation of numerous players with conflicting interests, politicians often resor...| www.nationalaffairs.com