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Liberal democracy in the United States has persisted for 250 years because each generation tested it and adapted it to changing circumstances. Today it faces a crisis of confidence and execution.
The inaugural Liberal Solutions Summit, hosted by IHS, opens today in Washington, DC. Over the next few days, scholars, builders, and leaders will take five problems we currently face as Americans and try to build consensus around a solution to each: trust in institutions, the future of news, the values built into AI, the psychology of abundance, and the path to energy abundance.
The summit rests on a simple premise: liberal democracy and material abundance depend on people who test ideas against real problems. Follow along for what comes next, as our participants come together to create #liberalsolutions
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Her grandfather went to prison for nine years for making and selling hats. @MissLiyaP now contributes to policies that let people earn a living on their own terms, and ten states have adopted the policy framework she helped develop. Read more about her journey:
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RSVP by October 8th.
Hannah Arendt understood that liberal democracy thrives on friendship, not on winning the argument. On October 13 at the National Press Club, Roger Berkowitz joins The Liberalism.org Show to make the unexpected case for a politics of personal and civic friendship in today’s divided moment. Apply by October 8 to attend the live recording: web.cvent.com/event/a10cda74…
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Professor Asma Uddin traces how Texas officials have recast mosques, prayer rooms, and Islamic arbitration as security threats rather than protected First Amendment religious exercises. The Constitution asks only whether the exercise is religious, not whether it is familiar to us. Read Uddin's full piece in @ConversationUS linked below:
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A postcard for an IHS summer seminar landed in John Tomasi's mailbox and he spent the $500 he saved to go. There he clashed with one of the speakers but managed to still turn his argument into an essay that became his first publication. Now he leads the Heterodox Academy. Read more about his IHS journey:
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Justin Gest's new book, "Democratic Drain: Global Migration and the Struggle for Democracy," argues that immigrants leave authoritarian countries because they already believe in democracy, not because they want to import its opposite. IHS supported the research and writing behind it. Joseph Politano breaks down the case in The Argument.
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In 1989, while helping with construction of a municipal pool in East Germany, Mitch Mitchell noticed how authority without accountability can lead to misplaced restrictions. Read about how his experiences informed Mitchell’s research and work in higher education.
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CivicsMind is a free AI tutor that answers only from founding documents, the Federalist Papers, and Supreme Court rulings, and cites its sources every time. Read more: hubs.la/Q04vKH2J0
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Housing, healthcare, transportation, and energy now claim two-thirds of the average household budget. At the @StatePolicy Annual Meeting today, Alicia Plemmons of the Knee Regulatory Research Center, Yang Zhou of the University of North Texas, and IHS's Shane Courtland and Reed Dhein outlined state-level reforms that could bring those costs down.
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America turned 250 this year, and the questions the founders debated are still the ones students are asking.
CivicsMind provides a place to ask real questions about the Constitution, the courts, and the duties of citizenship, and get answers grounded in the founding documents, not opinion. Every answer ends with a question that sends students back to the original texts.
Free access for your classroom at hubs.la/Q04vchVv0
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Does your research shed light on foundational questions about the nature of liberal civic virtue? If your project explores the virtues necessary for life in a free society, we welcome you to apply for funding.
Submit your proposal by August 31: hubs.la/Q04tSXL_0
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IHS partnered with @PubKey DC for the first time to bring start-up founders, investors, technologists, and scholars into a room built around Bitcoin. The conversation covered permissionless innovation, property rights, energy and AI infrastructure. It included Marty Bent's evidence for why data centers can be viewed as a net gain for the towns that host them.
Watch this clip, then head to our YouTube for the full conversation with @MartyBent and @GideonOPowell .
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Twenty-eight thinkers. One conversation partner for every student in the room.
This recording walks through Classical Liberal Mind, a free AI platform built on the work of Adam Smith, F.A. Hayek, and 26 other voices from the classical liberal tradition. See how an instructor could fold it into a syllabus, how a student could turn it into a standing tutor, and how one question leads to the next primary text.
Try it for free while watching the demo: classicalliberalmind.ai/
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BREAKING GOOD: Permissionless Building | Live at PubKey DC nitter.siddz.com/i/broadcasts/1OGwbnbPV…
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Can permissionless building earn public trust? @MartyBent and @GideonOPowell discuss live from @PubKey DC tonight at 6:30 PM ET. Watch the livestream here on X or on YouTube: piped.video/@TheIHSorg/live
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IHS is calling scholars of journalism, mass media, information systems, communications, and media production to submit proposals on agentic artificial intelligence transformations in news and information ecosystems.
Submit your proposal by August 17 for funding consideration: hubs.la/Q04snCH00
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In 2009, Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera moved ten minutes from the birthplace of Mexico's most violent cartel to start her first faculty job. Eight years there reshaped her research: what stops cartel violence from crossing borders isn't a wall, it's whether public institutions work. An IHS grant is now helping her to finish her next book. Read her story:
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A mailman in Calgary whose professor saw a spark. Forty years later, a chaired professor who helped build the field of PPE. Read IHS scholar David Schmidtz's story:
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Capping hospital, drug, and insurance prices sounds like the fix for US health care. In the @nytimes, IHS scholars Lorens Helmchen and Tony LoSasso say these price controls don't erase costs, they push them into longer waits and thinner care.
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