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Issue One · September 2026

Climate

How should the New Right approach climate and environmental policy?

Features

IWhat Low Interest Rates Hath WroughtSuppressing rates steers the U.S. economy away from real economic activity and toward financialization.Brij KhuranaIIPerverse Incentives Handed Higher Ed to AIThe technology brings our universities’ already dangerously distorted ends to their logical fulfillment.Dalton Haydel

In-Focus: Climate

IIIReclaiming Environmental Policy from the LeftAmericans of all political stripes care about the environment. What does a better policy paradigm look like?Chris BarnardIVWhat Does the Science of Climate Change Really Look Like?Doom-and-gloom forecasts have given way to more manageable projections.Joseph MajkutVAgainst Climate PietyClimate policy needs to focus on human wellbeing and the environment, not the global temperature.Taylor MyersVINixon and the New Climate RightThe former president’s environmental convictions are alive in today’s young conservatives.Nathan Pinkoski

Commentary

VIIA Crack in Big Tech’s ArmorMeta’s $17B legal defeat is a watershed for accountability. But it’s far from the end of the war.Brad LittlejohnVIIIAntitrust in the Time(s) of TariffsThe second Trump administration’s tariff policies underscore the need for antitrust vigilance.Gail SlaterIXWhy Shouldn’t the President Sell His Tweets?Trump’s Truth API stunt confirms how degraded we already are.Chris GriswoldXHow to Worry About AILessons from climate catastrophism for the cataclysm du jourOren Cass
XIU.S.-Canada TradeNicholas PhillipsForthcoming
XIITrump's Immigration CrackdownMark KrikorianForthcoming

Podcasts

XIIIA New Right Climate Policy with Chris Barnard and Taylor MyersHow should conservatives think about climate and environmental policy?XIVThe Promise of Domestic Solar with Mark WidmarA Made in America focus is helping drive reindustrialization.