Today marks the debut of Commonplace as a monthly magazine, focused in each issue on a subject critical to American politics today. This month’s topic: how to approach climate and environmental policy.

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ISSUE ONE - SEPTEMBER 2026

THE CLIMATE ISSUE

Features

Brij Khurana | What Low Interest Rates Hath Wrought
Suppressing rates steers the U.S. economy away from real economic activity and toward financialization.
Dalton Haydel | Perverse Incentives Handed Higher Ed to AI
The technology brings our universities’ already dangerously distorted ends to their logical fulfillment.

In Focus: Climate

Chris Barnard | Reclaiming Environmental Policy from the Left
Americans of all political stripes care about the environment. What does a better policy paradigm look like?
Joseph Majkut | What Does the Science of Climate Change Really Look Like?
Doom-and-gloom forecasts have given way to more manageable projections.
Taylor Myers | Against Climate Piety
Climate policy needs to focus on human wellbeing and the environment, not the global temperature.
Nathan Pinkoski | Nixon and the New Climate Right
The former president’s environmental convictions are alive in today’s young conservatives.

Commentary

Brad Littlejohn | A Crack in Big Tech’s Armor
Meta’s $17B legal defeat is a watershed for accountability. But it’s far from the end of the war.
Gail Slater | Antitrust in the Time(s) of Tariffs
The second Trump administration’s tariff policies underscore the need for antitrust vigilance.
Chris Griswold | Why Shouldn’t the President Sell His Tweets?
Trump’s Truth API stunt confirms how degraded we already are.
Oren Cass | How to Worry About AI
Lessons from climate catastrophism for the cataclysm du jour
Nick Phillips | On Canada trade
Coming soon
Mark Krikorian | On immigration enforcement
Coming soon

Podcasts

A New Right Climate Policy with Chris Barnard and Taylor Myers
How should conservatives think about climate and environmental policy?
The Promise of Domestic Solar with Mark Widmar, CEO of First Solar
A Made in America focus is helping drive reindustrialization.

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September: The Climate Issue