Ryan Streeter
Ryan Streeter
Executive Director of the Civitas Institute
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Ryan Streeter is Executive Director of the Civitas Institute. Previously, Streeter was the State Farm James Q. Wilson Scholar and director of domestic policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where he facilitated research in education, technology, housing, urban policy, poverty studies, workforce development, and public opinion. Before joining AEI, he was executive director of the Center for Politics and Governance at the University of Texas at Austin. Streeter has had a distinguished career in government service. He has served as a policy advisor to a U.S. president, a governor, and a mayor. Outside of government, he has served as a senior fellow at the Legatum Institute and a research fellow at the Hudson Institute. Streeter’s most recent book is Doing Right by Kids: Leveraging Social Capital and Innovation to Increase Opportunity, which he co-edited with Scott Winship and Yuval Levin. He also the co-editor of The Future of Cities (AEI, 2023), author of Transforming Charity: Toward a Results-Oriented Social Sector (Hudson Institute, 2001), the editor of Religion and the Public Square in the 21st Century (Hudson Institute, 2001), the coauthor of The Soul of Civil Society: Voluntary Associations and the Public Value of Moral Habits (Lexington Books, 2002), and a contributor to Stephen Goldsmith’s book Putting Faith in Neighborhoods: Making Cities Work Through Grassroots Citizenship (Hudson Institute, 2002). In addition, he is the author, co-author, and editor of more than 150 articles and papers for outlets including the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, the Atlantic, USA Today, the Hill, City Journal, and National Review. Streeter has a PhD in political philosophy from Emory University.
Areas of Expertise
Metropolitan Policy
Federal Policy & Politics
Civil Society
Social Mobility
Books:
- Doing Right by Kids: Leveraging Social Capital and Innovation to Increase Opportunity, co-editor with Scott Winship and Yuval Levin (Washington DC: AEI, 2024).
- The Future of Cities, co-editor with Joel Kotkin (Washington DC: AEI, 2023).
- Localism in America, co-editor with Joel Kotkin (Washington DC: AEI, 2018).
- The Soul of Civil Society: Voluntary Associations and the Public Value of Moral Habits, co-author with Don Eberly (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2002).
Articles, Essays, and Media:
- “Challenging Ideological Monocultures on Campus with Ryan Streeter,” New Enlightenment with Adam Dixon, Oct. 14, 2024
- “Americans Don’t Need to Be Saved,” National Review, April 8, 2024.
- “How We Got Here,” The Catalyst, Issue 29, Winter 2024.
- “An Aspirational Path for American Conservatism,” co-author Stephen Goldsmith, Harvard Kennedy School, 2023.
- “Yes, America’s Cities Can Be Saved,” National Review, April 6, 2023.
- “The False Choices Facing the Republican Party,” with Stephen Goldsmith Politico, February 12, 2023
- “Opportunity Cities and the Midterms,” Real Clear Policy, January 6, 2023
- “Metro Cons,” The Dispatch, January 3, 2023
- “Republicans Shouldn’t Forget About Optimism,” National Review, December 12, 2022
- “Goodbye, San Francisco. Hello, Nashville. Americans Are Fleeing Dysfunctional Cities,” USA Today, September 6, 2022
- “Why Progressives Are Making a Mess of the Culture War,” The Dispatch, July 26, 2022
- “Surviving Social Media,” Law & Liberty, May 19, 2022
- “Get to Know Thy Neighbor,” City Journal, May 19, 2022
- “The Four Bobs — and the Economic Importance of Self-starters,” National Review, January 9, 2022
- “Dynamism as a Public Philosophy,” National Affairs, January 3, 2022
- “Public Places and Commercial Spaces: How Neighborhood Amenities Foster Trust and Connection in American Community,” co-author with Sam Abrams, Daniel Cox, and Beatrice Lee, American Enterprise Institute, 2021.
- “The Role of Community in Place-Based Giving,” American Enterprise Institute, 2021.
- “Welcome to the Ideological Heartland,” The Dispatch, December 29, 2021
- “If Demography Is Destiny, so Are Suburbs and Small Towns,” RealClearPolicy, October 26, 2021
- “Human Scale Cities,” RealClearPolicy, October 8, 2021
- “For Policy Reform, Look to the States,” The Dispatch, September 8, 2021
- “How Affluent Conservatives Fuel the Culture War,” The Dispatch, August 31, 2021
- “Will Progressives Learn from the Cities?” RealClearPolicy, June 22, 2021
- “The Great American Freak-out and How to Address It,” Law & Liberty, April 30, 2021
- “Middle-class Urbanism Is the New Heartland Chic,” RealClearPolicy, March 25, 2021
- “Conservatives Drift Leftward in the ‘plan to Rescue America’,” The Dispatch, March 17, 2021
- “Opportunity Knocks,” City Journal, March 5, 2021
- “The Emergent Urban Anti-progressivism,” National Review, February 5, 2021
- “Grievance Politics Is a Dead-end Road,” The Dispatch, January 15, 2021
- “Revitalize America’s Cities,” Governing Priorities, (Washington DC: American Enterprise Institute Press, 2020).
- “Socially Distant: How Our Divided Social Networks Explain Our Politics,” co-author with Sam Abrams, Jacqueline Clemence, and Daniel Cox, American Enterprise Institute, 2020.
- “Trumpism is More About Culture than Economics,” The Dispatch, November 23, 2020
- “Cities on a Human Scale: The Impact of Community Design on Quality of Life and Upward Mobility,” chapter in Facing the Future: American Communities in the Next Decade, The Knight Foundation, 2019.
- “AEI Survey on Community and Society: Social Capital, Civic Health, and Quality of Life in the United States,” co-author with Sam Abrams, Karlyn Bowman, and Eleanor O’Neil, American Enterprise Institute, 2019.
- “The Importance of Place: Neighborhood Amenities as a Source of Social Connection and Trust,” co-author with Daniel Cox, American Enterprise Institute, 2019.
- “A Loneliness Epidemic? How Marriage, Religion, and Mobility Explain the Generation Gap in Loneliness,” co-author with Daniel Cox and David Wilde, American Enterprise Institute, 2019.
- “Work, Skills, and Community: Restoring Opportunity for the Working Class,” contributor, American Enterprise Institute, 2018.