This week at AEI, some of our most prominent scholars weighed in on the pandemic, poverty, and the Constitution.

In The Atlantic, Scott Gottlieb considers COVID-19's move from a pandemic to an endemic virus. Gottlieb proposes ways we can meet the new challenge but also warns that "the twin burden of flu and COVID is going to compel more collective action" than we've demonstrated. Dr. Gottlieb's new book, "Uncontrolled Spread: Why COVID-19 Crushed Us and How We Can Defeat the Next Pandemic" (Harper), is available Tuesday, September 21.

In commemoration of Constitution Day, Yuval Levin says that new conservative legal theories gesture "toward conservative judicial supremacy, as if replacing one unaccountable elite with another will restore our republic." Instead, he suggests it is time for conservatives to "look beyond the judiciary, and especially to Congress."

In a new AEI Economic Perspectives, James C. Capretta explains why instead of resorting to tighter government regulations to reform our health care system, we should move toward a better-structured market-based system that allows for more effective and competitive pricing.

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 capped the itemized deduction for state and local taxes (SALT). What would be the economic effects of repealing the SALT cap in 2021? Matt Jensen and Don Boyd answer that question.

On the tech front, Mark Jamison analyzes a court ruling against Epic Games' antitrust suit against Apple. Jamison warns that Epic's weak case is indicative of a resurgent "evidence-free, authoritarian approach to antitrust that assumes all highly successful companies are bad."

In a new report about Russia's nuclear arsenal, John D. Maurer advises American policymakers to focus on limiting the weapons that pose the greatest threat to the United States: Russia's long-range nuclear arms.

"We speak of balance as an answer to our problems. But what if it is part of the problem? Why exactly do we aspire to this ideal?" Benjamin and Jenna Storey explore these questions, with a little help from Michel de Montaigne and Blaise Pascal.

Finally, Robert Doar argues that bipartisan welfare reform reduced poverty rates to historic lows by emphasizing employment and accountability. But now, he warns, Democrats want to implement policies that would discourage individual responsibility with monthly cash benefits regardless of the recipients' efforts to seek employment.