This is really a great compilation of short essays by some of the best thinkers around. Here's the first 5 for an idea: 

‘The cultural elite are inexcusably unaware of the challenges and perspectives of many others in this country.’

BY KATHERINE J. CRAMER

Katherine J. Cramer is professor of political science and chair of Letters & Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is author of The Politics of Resentment: Rural Consciousness in Wisconsin and the Rise of Scott Walker.

‘Internalized constitutional norms matter more than any external checks.’

BY TIM WU

Tim Wu is a law professor at Columbia University and the author, recently, of The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age.

Unfortunately, lies can trump truth.

BY NICHOLAS CARR

Nicholas Carr is a writer covering technology, economics and culture. His book The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains was a Pulitzer Prize finalist.

America can be both backward-looking and radically progressive at the same time.

BY LESLIE M. HARRIS

Leslie M. Harris is professor of history and African American studies at Northwestern University and the Beatrice Shepherd Blane fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University.

Trump exposed how overrated the elites really are.

BY MARK BAUERLEIN

Mark Bauerlein is a contributing editor at First Things and professor emeritus of English at Emory University.