https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2022/05/the-canadian-ideology/
Jan 20, 2023 - The city of Ottawa found itself in the unusual position of being at the center of international media attention in early February when the Freedom Convoy...
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https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2021/12/workism-and-falling-fertility/
Dec 20, 2021 - Developed countries have averaged less than two children per woman for over forty years. Nonetheless, the idea that fertility rates in advanced societies could...
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https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2019/05/chinas-city-clusters-pioneering-future-mega-urban-governance/
May 20, 2019 - The coordination of development within city clusters in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) is a striking case for organizing institutions, planning,...
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https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2021/08/the-value-of-nothing-capital-versus-growth/
Aug 20, 2021 - Throughout 2021, U.S. stock market valuations have hovered near all‑time highs. In June, the unadjusted price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio of the S&P 500...
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https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2018/05/trump-conservatives-and-human-rights/
May 19, 2018 - During his short presidency, President Trump has downplayed human rights, preferring to emphasize American economic and military interests abroad. He has...
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https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2020/12/the-lefts-culture-war-rebranding/
Dec 23, 2020 - Technically, you could call it a victory. But what was expected to be a historic blue wave in 2020 turned out to be barely a ripple. Despite many polls...
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https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2022/04/what-big-techs-response-to-russia-really-tells-us/
Apr 4, 2022 - The Russian invasion of Ukraine has revived discussions of the foreign policy significance of the U.S. tech industry. Companies like Apple, Google, Twitter,...
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https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2018/09/what-v-s-naipaul-taught-me-about-posturing/
Sep 5, 2018 - Readers rightly praise V. S. Naipaul’s incandescent prose, his narrative power, and his bracing sense of humor. But for me his art also had another value:...
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https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2022/02/nationalism-or-conservatism-lessons-from-1912/
Feb 3, 2022 - Conservatism today stands at a crossroads. Throughout its long history, conservatism has sought to hold together a commitment to both a substantive vision of...
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https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2018/12/share-buybacks-and-the-contradictions-of-shareholder-capitalism/
Dec 20, 2018 - In the jargon of finance, America is suffering from a capital allocation problem. The country seems incapable of making the necessary investments to fuel...
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https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2017/08/rob-ford-donald-trump-new-direction-political-polarization/
Aug 8, 2017 - You are not a typical American. Not even close. The typical American doesn’t read lengthy articles in policy journals. The typical American gets up far too...
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https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2025/08/beyond-safetyism-a-modest-proposal-for-conservative-ai-regulation/
Aug 20, 2025 - The massive rents to be wrung out of the attention economy have acted as a black hole, pulling nearly every tech startup or utopian innovator into the orbit of...
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https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2017/11/two-cheers-tax-reform/
Nov 7, 2017 - The recently announced tax reform package is one of the few serious and intelligent proposals offered by House Republicans in years. Not surprisingly, however,...
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https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2021/11/virtual-event-data-wars-security-economics-and-politics/
Nov 23, 2021 - If AI is the engine of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, data is the fuel. But the economic exploitation of data faces huge obstacles—cybersecurity, national...
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https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2018/12/peter-thiel-rachel-carson-and-regulatory-double-standards/
Dec 17, 2018 - Buried in the middle of a two-hour debate in 2014 on religion and modernity is a thought-provoking observation by Peter Thiel regarding technology and the...
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https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2020/11/how-late-liberalism-undermines-itself/
Nov 20, 2020 - Just as surely as the French Revolution devoured its children, modern-day liberalism is eating itself, and destroying with it all the norms and institutions...
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https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2019/05/marvels-war-on-terror/
May 7, 2019 - When the Norse god Loki threatens earth in the 2012 film The Avengers, the “playboy billionaire genius” Tony Stark confronts him in a Manhattan penthouse....
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https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2019/05/subscription-capitalism-the-story-of-a-power-shift1/
May 20, 2019 - The emergence of the internet changed the business landscape in fundamental ways. Computer-based services could be offered to anyone irrespective of geographic...
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https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2018/01/moral-overload/
Jan 24, 2018 - Donald Trump’s election as president was a shattering defeat for left-of-center Americans. Commentators said that Democrats had focused too much on...
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https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2018/08/privilege-and-idolatry/
Nov 1, 2018 - In May of 2005, the late David Foster Wallace delivered one of the wisest, most demanding commencement speeches in recent memory. The speech is titled “This...
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