“It has published on a range of topics that perhaps seemed controversial to someone at some time (specifically, academics in the early 2020s) but certainly not to the broader culture in 2025.”
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Has the “Journal of Controversial Ideas” Become Irrelevant?
Why We Should Still Read Orestes Brownson
“What our country needs is a long-term, multi-pronged rediscovery of the true Constitution and a commitment to live by it. The thought of Orestes Brownson can help us in this rediscovery.”
What Progressives Need to Do
“No, not everyone on the Left supported these tyrannies, yet what progressives cannot escape is that much of the Left lent political legitimacy to regimes that destroyed and damaged tens of millions of lives, leaving festering wounds that still bleed today.”
Redefining College: Adapting Higher Education for the 2020s
“However, if a single mother wants a faster track to employment and signs up for a six-month ‘micro-pathway’ at a local community college to become, for example, a junior data analyst or fiber optics specialist, she will likely have to pay out of pocket.”
When Student Disengagement Meets Worker Disengagement, and a Solution
“Engagement is inseparable from hope and motivation. The top quartile of students most engaged in school are more than four times as likely as the least-engaged students to believe they have a great future ahead of them.”
Vigilantism and the Sex Offender Registry
“Social media and online articles about these incidents boast ten or even 20 comments praising the vigilante for each one condemning the act of violence.”
Does America Have a New Natural Governing Party?
“These are not new principles. They defined the Republican Party for most of its history, a party that had always included a progressive element.”
What Europe Can Learn from the American Election
“[Make Europe Great Again] does not mean we should emulate President-elect Trump’s Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement; rather, it highlights the need to recognize the importance of economic and social stability and security to ordinary people.”
Continue to Support the Mises Institute at 99%
“This is not the first time libertarians have disagreed with one another.”
America’s Return to Industrial Policy
“Clearly, industrial policy—the deliberate and coordinated governmental support of industries—is coming back, even if it is not clear yet where it will end up.”
Making Sense of Germany’s Migration Deal with Kenya
“Chancellor’s Scholz’s Germany-Kenya deal fails to address these core issues, and with Kenyan skilled workers favoring English-speaking countries, it may not even alleviate Germany’s skilled labor shortage. Nevertheless, it represents a step in the right direction, as it has German interests at heart.”
America’s Housing Dilemma: Building for a Future with Fewer People
“Bringing this back to the United States: While we need to address our current housing crisis, the goal should not be to build, build, build anywhere at any cost.”
Where an Anti-Aging Theory Goes Right (and Wrong)
“We need more visionaries and integrated fields…because just as the human body is a complex interplay of atomic, molecular, cellular, and systemic processes, so too must be our approach to increasing healthy lifespan.”
Burning Britain
“Political violence, particularly against minorities, has no place in a democracy. However, neglecting the undeniable social and cultural repercussions of mass immigration is a grave mistake that only serves to empower the hard right.”
Reckless Rhetoric and Its Consequences
“By constantly calling President Trump an existential threat to democracy and comparing him so often to Hitler, many in the press need to be held accountable for demonizing his millions of voters and tilling the fertile soil that produced Crooks and others like him, yet to surface.”