Videos

Watch recordings of past public lectures and other events hosted by Civitas.

Arthur C. Brooks on The Art & Science of Getting Happier: Live at The Texas Tribune

Pursuit of Happiness
Jan 29, 2025
1:06:07

Edward Glaeser on Dynamism and Stagnation

Economic Dynamism
Jan 28, 2025
1:04:19

Dynamism & Its Enemies: 2024 Austin Symposium Recap

Economic Dynamism
Jan 27, 2025
1:31

Justin Dyer on Civic Education: Live at AEI's Future of the American University Conference

Politics
Jan 1, 2025
19:09

Lord Andrew Roberts on Winston Churchill and the US-UK Special Relationship, Then and Now

Politics
Sep 26, 2024
59:44

Casey Mulligan on Prices, Regulation, and the Supply Chain

Economic Dynamism
Jan 1, 2024
1:02:10

Samuel Gregg on the Humane Economy

Economic Dynamism
May 8, 2024
1:03:06

Cass Sunstein on Sludge, Stagnation, and Dynamism

Economic Dynamism
May 8, 2024
59:38

Ryan Decker on New Business Creation

Economic Dynamism
May 8, 2024
49:37
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Keeping the Republic: A Constitution Day Lecture with Marc Landy

Constitutionalism
Sep 17, 2024
1:05:44

Arthur C. Brooks on The Art & Science of Getting Happier: Live at The Texas Tribune

Pursuit of Happiness
Jan 29, 2025
1:06:07

Melissa Kearney on Two-Parent Privilege and Social Mobility

Pursuit of Happiness
Jan 26, 2025
1:19:06

Christine Emba on Love, Sex, and Liberalism

Pursuit of Happiness
Jan 1, 2024
1:02:41

Arthur C. Brooks on the Pursuit of Happiness in an Unhappy World

Pursuit of Happiness
May 8, 2024
1:23:22

Jeff Rosen on What “The Pursuit of Happiness” Meant to America's Founders

Pursuit of Happiness
Jan 26, 2025
1:03:18
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Past events
Civil Discord 2024
Civil Discord 2024
In-person
Mar 21, 2024
Bari Weiss in Conversation with Justin Dyer
Bari Weiss in Conversation with Justin Dyer
In-person
Nov 10, 2022
Civitas
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Content

Brains Versus Brawn: Ordinal Rank Effects in Job Training

Is it better to be a big fish in a small pond or a small fish in a big pond?

Scott Carrell, Alexander J. Chesney
Pursuit of Happiness
Jan 28, 2025
Dynamism and Stagnation: An Outlook

Flexibility and responsiveness are particularly important during periods of shock.

Ed Glaeser
Economic Dynamism
Jan 8, 2025
What is an Establishment of Religion? And What Does Disestablishment Require?

Vincent Phillip Muñoz reviews a new book about the Establishment Clause.

Vincent Phillip Muñoz
Constitutionalism
Dec 16, 2024
National Poll from Civitas Institute: Trump Victory Driven by Voters Who Reject Status Quo

The poll asked 1,200 Americans an array of questions about how things are going in America.

Daron Shaw
Politics
Dec 11, 2024
Recent Patterns of New Business Creation

The pandemic surge of new business entries highlights American entrepreneurial dynamism.

Ryan Decker
Economic Dynamism
Dec 10, 2024
The Housing and Migration Crisis

Challenges to housing affordability have undermined economic mobility and dynamism.

Dan Shoag
Economic Dynamism
Dec 10, 2024
Reflections on Mass Flourishing: 10 Years Later

Nobel laureate Edmund Phelps reflects on his book, Mass Flourishing, ten years after publication.

Edmund Phelps
Economic Dynamism
Dec 10, 2024
Big Worries about the Gaza Cease-fire

Hamas broke a cease-fire on October 7, 2023, as they have done on many occasions. They will break this cease-fire the first time the moment is opportune. 

Politics
Feb 5, 2025
Return to the Monroe Doctrine

The core of the Monroe Doctrine has been a policy of strategic denial.

John Yoo, Robert Delahunty
Politics
Feb 5, 2025
The EU Imposes Its ESG Agenda on American Companies

The goal in negotiating with the EU should be to secure the freer flow of goods, services, and investment, something in the interests of both America and the EU.

Michael Toth
Economic Dynamism
Feb 4, 2025
Crime and the Political Question

The electorate is no longer buying what soft-on-crime politicians are selling.

Zack Smith
Politics
Feb 3, 2025
Trump's Immigration Agenda and the Constitution

The Trump administration may be able to resort to new, untried legal tactics to overcome resistance.

John Yoo, Robert Delahunty
Constitutionalism
Jan 31, 2025
Trudeau's Failure and Canada's Renewal

The idea of Canada will be refashioned on Tory terms.

Geoffrey Sigalet
Politics
Jan 30, 2025
The Path Dependency of American Health Care

Health care policies promote the chance to acquire winning lottery tickets, offering greater health care services and product availability (subsidized by third parties) rather than better assurances of those resources being delivered and used more productively.

Thomas Miller
Economic Dynamism
Jan 29, 2025

The Three Whiskey Happy Hour

Steven Hayward brings you the Power Line Blog's perspective on the week's big headlines.

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