June 10, 2019
June 10, 2019
Moral and religious people created by God not the state
Last week Joe Carter helpfully gathered many of the contributions to what John Zmirak has called ‘The Iran-Iraq War Among Conservatives’. This at times heated exchange is largely between liberal and illiberal American conservatives and it is an important and lively one. Continue Reading...
May 20, 2019
Alejandro Chafuen in Forbes: Building Brazil’s wealth through deregulation
This article appeared originally in Forbes. Read the entire article here.
Last week, while visiting the political and business capitals of Brazil, I was able to study the plan for deregulating the Brazilian economy and speak with some of the plan’s architects. Continue Reading...
May 16, 2019
The politically correct rule at Harvard Law
What do President Donald J. Trump and Ronald Sullivan, a professor at Harvard Law School, have in common? At first glance, nothing. However, a careful reading of recent news reveals that these two men were victims of a political trend that has engulfed American society and has been turning the land of freedom into a grotesque experiment of authoritarianism. Continue Reading...
May 02, 2019
The dangers of Catholic anti-liberalism
Korey D. Maas, associate professor of history at Hillsdale College, has written a timely warning to American Catholics at Public Discourse titled, ‘The Coming Anti-Catholicism.’
Maas begins his essay with a recounting of the early history of American anti-Catholicism, its mitigation in the 1960s, and its troubling resurgence in recent years:
The combined effects of Camelot and the Council were to make political anti-Catholicism gauche almost overnight. Continue Reading...
April 22, 2019
Malaysian High Court upholds ban on Mustafa Akyol’s ‘Islam without Extremes’
The Malaysian High Court has upheld the previous Malaysian government’s ban on three books including Mustafa Akyol’s ‘Islam without Extremes: A Muslim Case for Liberty’. Akyol is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute’s Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity, where he focuses on public policy, Islam, and modernity. Continue Reading...
April 17, 2019
New video of Rev. Robert Sirico: ‘Defending the Free Market: The Moral Case for a Free Economy’
Earlier this month Fr. Robert Sirico delivered an address to the Liberty Forum of Silicon Valley titled, ‘Defending the Free Market: The Moral Case for a Free Economy’.
The talk begins with an account of a formative childhood experience which first kindled in him a passion for justice. Continue Reading...
April 16, 2019
How Rod Dreher’s ‘Benedict Option’ misunderstands Christian liberalism
Rod Dreher is once again exasperated. He is frustrated by a rumor that George Weigel hasn’t bought the tireless promotion of his ‘Benedict Option’:
A few months ago, Weigel appeared at an event in Providence, RI, to discuss the Benedict Option. Continue Reading...
March 26, 2019
The Russian Five: ‘You want to be free’
Twenty-two years ago the Detroit Red Wings played the Colorado Avalanche in their final regular season matchup. The Avalanche had defeated the Red Wings in the previous season’s conference finals on their way to a Stanley Cup Championship, and the series included a dirty hit on Wings center Kris Draper, which ended his season. Continue Reading...
February 25, 2019