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Watch recordings of past public lectures and other events hosted by Civitas.

Dynamism & Its Enemies: 2024 Austin Symposium Recap

Economic Dynamism
Jan 27, 2025
1:31

Lord Andrew Roberts on Winston Churchill and the US-UK Special Relationship, Then and Now

Politics
Jan 26, 2025
59:44

Arthur C. Brooks on The Art & Science of Getting Happier: Live at The Texas Tribune

Pursuit of Happiness
1:06:07

Edward Glaeser on Dynamism and Stagnation

Economic Dynamism
1:04:19

Justin Dyer on Civic Education: Live at AEI's Future of the American University Conference

Politics
19:09

Edward Glaeser on Dynamism and Stagnation

Economic Dynamism
1:04:19

Dynamism & Its Enemies: 2024 Austin Symposium Recap

Economic Dynamism
Jan 27, 2025
1:31

Nobel Laureate Edmund Phelps on What Makes Nations Prosper

Economic Dynamism
Jan 27, 2025
33:39

Deirdre McCloskey on Where Prosperity Comes From

Economic Dynamism
1:01:01

Daniel Shoag on the Housing and Migration Challenge

Economic Dynamism
55:09

Justin Dyer on Civic Education: Live at AEI's Future of the American University Conference

Politics
19:09

Jonathan Haidt and Jonathan Rauch on Creating Knowledge in a Fragmented Age

Politics
1:30:10

Lord Andrew Roberts on Winston Churchill and the US-UK Special Relationship, Then and Now

Politics
Jan 26, 2025
59:44

Keeping the Republic: A Constitution Day Lecture with Marc Landy

Constitutionalism
1:05:44

Arthur C. Brooks on The Art & Science of Getting Happier: Live at The Texas Tribune

Pursuit of Happiness
1:06:07

Melissa Kearney on Two-Parent Privilege and Social Mobility

Pursuit of Happiness
1:19:06

Christine Emba on Love, Sex, and Liberalism

Pursuit of Happiness
1:02:41

Arthur C. Brooks on the Pursuit of Happiness in an Unhappy World

Pursuit of Happiness
Jan 27, 2025
1:23:22

Jeff Rosen on What “The Pursuit of Happiness” Meant to America's Founders

Pursuit of Happiness
Jan 26, 2025
1:03:18
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Past events
Political Order and the Spartan Ideal
Political Order and the Spartan Ideal
Hosted
Apr 10, 2025
American Covenant: How the Constitution Unified our Nation – and Could Again
American Covenant: How the Constitution Unified our Nation – and Could Again
Hosted
Mar 27, 2025
The Stoics on Simultaneous Mental Conflict
The Stoics on Simultaneous Mental Conflict
Hosted
Mar 25, 2025
Civitas
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Content

Brains Versus Brawn: Ordinal Rank Effects in Job Training

Is it better to be a big fish in a small pond or a small fish in a big pond?

Scott Carrell, Alexander J. Chesney
Pursuit of Happiness
Jan 28, 2025
Dynamism and Stagnation: An Outlook

Flexibility and responsiveness are particularly important during periods of shock.

Ed Glaeser
Economic Dynamism
Jan 8, 2025
What is an Establishment of Religion? And What Does Disestablishment Require?

Vincent Phillip Muñoz reviews a new book about the Establishment Clause.

Vincent Phillip Muñoz
Constitutionalism
Dec 16, 2024
National Poll from Civitas Institute: Trump Victory Driven by Voters Who Reject Status Quo

The poll asked 1,200 Americans an array of questions about how things are going in America.

Daron Shaw
Politics
Dec 11, 2024
Recent Patterns of New Business Creation

The pandemic surge of new business entries highlights American entrepreneurial dynamism.

Ryan Decker
Economic Dynamism
Dec 10, 2024
The Housing and Migration Crisis

Challenges to housing affordability have undermined economic mobility and dynamism.

Dan Shoag
Economic Dynamism
Dec 10, 2024
Reflections on Mass Flourishing: 10 Years Later

Nobel laureate Edmund Phelps reflects on his book, Mass Flourishing, ten years after publication.

Edmund Phelps
Economic Dynamism
Dec 10, 2024
Trump's Immigration Agenda and the Constitution

The Trump administration may be able to resort to new, untried legal tactics to overcome resistance.

John Yoo, Robert Delahunty
Constitutionalism
Jan 31, 2025
Trudeau's Failure and Canada's Renewal

The idea of Canada will be refashioned on Tory terms.

Geoffrey Sigalet
Politics
Jan 30, 2025
The Path Dependency of American Health Care

Health care policies promote the chance to acquire winning lottery tickets, offering greater health care services and product availability (subsidized by third parties) rather than better assurances of those resources being delivered and used more productively.

Thomas Miller
Economic Dynamism
Jan 29, 2025
The Case Against Birthright Citizenship

No one at the time or now has advanced a coherent explanation as to why birthright citizenship is desirable as a matter of principle.

Richard Epstein
Constitutionalism
Jan 28, 2025
The Arrival of Legal Traditionalism

With a clearer view of what justifies its traditionalist intuitions, the Court has an opportunity to right many residual wrongs from its past misadventures.

Tal Fortgang
Constitutionalism
Jan 28, 2025
How One Simple Reform Can Improve Voting and Reduce Political Extremism

We should consider an alternative voting method that would constitute a much better reform, one that would allow voters to express their preferences more accurately.

David C. Rose
Politics
Jan 27, 2025
These Mayors Understand How to Run a City

Armed with common sense policies, three urban leaders are fighting a patient battle against chaos.

Joel Kotkin
Economic Dynamism
Jan 24, 2025

The Three Whiskey Happy Hour

Steven Hayward brings you the Power Line Blog's perspective on the week's big headlines.

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