As many authors and essays have argued in the pages of American Affairs, and more recently in other prominent outlets, the polarities which have organized American political and economic life for the past several generations are proving increasingly irrelevant to contemporary developments and challenges. Right-libertarians sloganeer against big government or “tyrannical” state intervention in the otherwise…

Thanks to rising inequality, sub-replacement fertility, and growing anti-system populism, technological civilization in the United States and worldwide is experiencing the latest of several historic crises that have occurred since the transition from agrarian to industrial economies that began in Britain, Western Europe, and the Northern United States two centuries ago. The central issue from…

Subsidiarity is one of the four basic principles of Catholic social teaching (along with dignity of the individual, common good, and solidarity). Principles however do not create their own facts, and subsidiarity presupposes a certain set of social facts: first, that there exists a comprehensive community called polity (put to one side the issue of…

In America today, we have a monopoly crisis. Over the last twenty years, 75 percent of industries have gotten more concentrated. There is concentrated power in every part of American commerce, in big markets like cable and search and pharmaceuticals, and in small markets like tabletop games, and missiles and munitions. Monopolies generate wage inequality,…

Developed countries have averaged less than two children per woman for over forty years. Nonetheless, the idea that fertility rates in advanced societies could be kept at or near the replacement rate of about two children per woman is buttressed by a body of literature arguing that a return to the two-child family becomes more practical…

If AI is the engine of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, data is the fuel. But the economic exploitation of data faces huge obstacles—cybersecurity, national regulation, international competition, and new technologies that threaten to disrupt the control and security of data. What changes are underway, and how can businesses and governments adapt to them? Join Asia…