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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.




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