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The center can hold: Public policy in an age of extremes

Brink Lindsey

The goal of the moderate is not to achieve perfection according to a single, unbending standard, but to strike a rough and workable balance among a variety of valid yet competing and perhaps irreconcilable objectives. We hope that the new synthesis we offer can help move our divided society toward the best version of itself.

Close-up, abstract view of architecture.
Close-up, abstract view of architecture.

The free market welfare state

Samuel Hammond

America’s historical combination of free-markets and limited income security is fundamentally unstable. Either we get better at complementing markets with comprehensive income and re-employment supports, or the forces of creative destruction will generate anti-market backlashes with lasting political consequences