After 9/11, suspicion of Islam hardened into an assumption in Texas that Muslim identity itself signals danger, writes a scholar of constitutional law.

John Tomasi leads Heterodox Academy, a network of professors devoted to open inquiry on more than a thousand American campuses.

In 1989, Mitch Mitchell spent a summer in East Germany building a municipal swimming pool that nobody expected to be built. Today he studies the rules that decide who is allowed to practice medicine i...

The Institute for Humane Studies has launched CivicsMind, a free AI civics platform at CivicsMind.ai. It answers questions about the Constitution and the workings of American government from a fixed l...

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In 2009, Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera took her first faculty job in Brownsville, Texas—a ten-minute walk from the birthplace of Mexico's most violent cartel. Today she studies the markets that borders cre...

David Schmidtz spent five years delivering mail in Calgary, Alberta, before a professor told him he had a spark. Forty years later, he is a chaired professor who helped build the field of philosophy, ...

A government bureaucrat doesn’t know how much your medicine or doctor’s visit should cost.

Get a hands-on introduction to the Classical Liberal Mind, a free AI platform that lets students, educators, and curious readers carry on conversations with 29 of the thinkers whose work built the mod...

Graham Platner’s Senate campaign has imploded amid credible accusations of rape. A Maine political scientist looks at what happened and how the populist Platner resembles Donald Trump in key ways.

Philadelphia police revoked the carry licenses of five members of the Black Lion Party for International Solidarity, citing ‘good cause.’ Is that constitutional?

Short-term humanitarian aid won’t go far in alleviating Cuba’s long-term energy crisis.

The common thread across the day was what it takes to keep a society capable of moving—capable of producing the buildings, the medicines, the technologies that don't yet exist.

Encountering a website that seems like it was designed to frustrate might leave you saying ‘there oughta be a law,’ but to have a case you need to show that the site tried to swindle you.

Free Society Grants support faculty seeking to develop or expand undergraduate programming grounded in the liberal tradition.

Congress has refused to exercise oversight of the Iran war, with Republicans nixing Democrats’ attempts to exercise legislators’ power over military engagements. That’s nothing new.

Estimates of artificial intelligence’s impact on jobs and the economy range from the apocalyptic to the utopian, but the data tells a more nuanced story.

At the tail end of the Vietnam War, Congress engaged in a breathtaking act of legislative assertion, affirming that lawmakers held the power to declare war – not the president.

Companies that had sued for tariff refunds are taking different approaches to getting their money back – or quitting the effort.

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Officials and policymakers say direct-to-consumer drug advertising encourages patients to seek treatments they don’t need and raises heath care costs, but the true picture is more nuanced.

The spectacle of ICE will be with us for a long time.

If we want an institution to be good at what it does, we must first define its role.

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