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1 month ago | 
nationalaffairs.com | Howe Whitman III |Daniel Wiser |Jennifer Dresden |Steven Teles
May 22, 2025 Whether it's foreign-policy hawks on the right, cultural conservatives on the left, or fiscal conservatives anywhere, the reductive binary of today's electoral options can be deeply frustrating for intraparty minority groups. Considering how various 19th-century movements combined to form the Republican Party offers some paths out of that frustration. Guest Jennifer Dresden joins us to discuss the forgotten history of fusion voting and how it might serve disaffected voters today.
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2 months ago | 
nationalaffairs.com | Howe Whitman III |Daniel Wiser |Jon Askonas
Media April 13, 2025 The left in America has long accused the right of advancing minority rule and rejecting the principles of democracy. Though there is some truth to that charge, it applies as much to the left itself as it does to the right. A closer look at housing and infrastructure regulations, public-employee unions, professional licensing, and the governance of higher education suggests that "minoritarianism" pervades our politics.
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Feb 14, 2025 | 
nationalaffairs.com | Howe Whitman III |Daniel Wiser |Jon Askonas |John Wood
February 16, 2025 Technology is a force for change in the world, both positive and negative. Its ability to rapidly transform our way of life poses an inherent challenge to families. If conservatives wish to restore the family as the foundation of our civilizational order, they must develop a comprehensive theory of technological change. Without it, new technologies will continue to heap disaster on the American family.
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Sep 27, 2024 | 
nationalaffairs.com | Howe Whitman III |Daniel Wiser |Aaron Rothstein |Steven A. Camarota
September 29, 2024 In a disturbing development, assisted suicide and euthanasia have become more prevalent across the West in recent decades. Government and health authorities are encouraging voluntary death, even for patients who do not suffer from a terminal illness but are afflicted by disabilities, poverty, or loneliness. Guest Aaron Rothstein joins us to discuss the radical assumptions about life, death, and human nature that underlie the practice of euthanasia.
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Sep 10, 2024 | 
lawliberty.org | Howe Whitman III |Steven Hayward |Richard Samuelson |Helen Dale
This year election day in America falls on the 5th of November, a date innocuous for us, but auspicious for our British cousins (who themselves just held a consequential election on our hallowed July 4). On that day in 1605, a Catholic plot to blow up the House of Lords—with King James I in it—was happily foiled. The conspirators, including most famously Guy Fawkes, were executed. To this day, people across the pond celebrate November 5 with bonfires and fireworks.
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Aug 9, 2024 | 
nationalaffairs.com | Steven A. Camarota |Howe Whitman III |Daniel Wiser |John Shelton
August 11, 2024 The chaos at the border in recent years has cast into stark relief one of the central issues surrounding illegal immigration: its fiscal costs. Unfortunately, most discussions on the subject tend to be filled with misconceptions, half-truths, and even outright falsehoods. The evidence indicates that illegal immigrants are almost certainly a net drain on our public fisc — but not for the reasons many activists put forth.
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Jun 18, 2024 | 
nationalaffairs.com | Howe Whitman III |Daniel Wiser |John Shelton |Dean Ball
June 23, 2024 Politics requires building coalitions in order to win elections. For those on the right, this means there is no alternative but to pursue some kind of fusionism among its competing elements. A revitalized fusionism would not look quite like the right's prior successful coalitions, however: It would need to account for 21st-century realities, which means it will need to put family policy at the forefront of its agenda.
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Apr 26, 2024 | 
nationalaffairs.com | Howe Whitman III |Daniel Wiser |Dan Currell
April 28, 2024 The emergence of generative artificial intelligence in the last few years has drawn a growing chorus of advocates offering proposals for how to regulate this new technology. Many of them want to treat AI as an entirely new kind of challenge that calls for entirely new regulatory tools. But starting from scratch is unlikely to lead us to effective regulation.
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Mar 15, 2024 | 
nationalaffairs.com | Howe Whitman III |Daniel Wiser |Dan Currell |Bryan McGraw
March 17, 2024 The textbooks most commonly used in high-school history classes are badly deficient. These books, which shape the rising generation’s perception of the country they are inheriting, often leave out the core ideas that defined the American founding and the nation’s ideals. To recover America’s sense of itself, it’s crucial to teach high-school students the connection between ideas and events.
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Feb 17, 2024 | 
nationalaffairs.com | Howe Whitman III |Daniel Wiser |Micah Meadowcroft
February 18, 2024 Voting should be straightforward: Figure out which candidate or party best fits one's political views or interests, and vote accordingly. But the last few elections have shown many Americans that it's not nearly that simple. We could benefit from a new framework for thinking about voting, and not just for elections in which we find ourselves especially bewildered. Guest Bryan McGraw joins us to discuss a new philosophy of voting and how to apply it in this year's elections.
