Morality and Economic Freedom: A Response to Gregg
Robert T. Miller, Public Discourse
Aristotelian-Thomistic moral philosophy doesn’t imply that every economy should be capitalist.
Natural Law and the Economy: A Reply to Miller
Samuel Gregg, Public Discourse
State Dept. urged to list key rel. liberty violators
Tom Strode, Baptist Press
The U.S. State Department disappointed religious freedom advocates by again failing to designate in its latest annual report the world’s worst violators of the human right.
Economics, Politics, and the Kingdom of God
Anne Bradley, Institute for Faith, Work, and Economics
The journey we are on in life matters for the future we are building. It matters for the work God has called us to accomplish.
Are school vouchers losing steam?
Abby Rapoport, Washington Post
Vouchers have been at the center of the school choice movement for many reformers, but they may be in trouble.
Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor, but Not Your Homeschoolers
Joseph Knippenberg, First Things
The Common Good: Instrumental But Not Just Contractual
Robert P. George, Public Discourse
Is the fundamental and essential point of forming the polity the polity itself, or is the polity primarily a means of protecting and achieving many other valuable ends?
Man the Political Animal: On the Intrinsic Goodness of Political Community
Michael W. Hannon , Public Discourse
Our arguments for limited government should recognize political community as an intrinsic good, not mistake it for a merely instrumental one.
Liberty Without Virtue: A Nation Without Its Heart
Tyler Castle, Values & Capitalism
Having witnessed the same act of kindness twice in only two or three days, my first thought was that people apparently have a very hard time holding on to their clothing accessories. But I also thought the acts of kindness were out of place in Brooklyn and D.C.—locations not known for their hospitality and civic virtue.
Religious Literacy Training for Law Students?
Dan Crane, Center for Law and Religion Forum
Comments drawing on religious teachings or metaphors—Moses’ smashing of the tablets, the parable of the Good Samaritan, etc.—are often greeted with blank stares, uncomfortable silence, or nervous giggles, as if I were making oblique references to early 80s Swedish disco music.
Pope warns comfortable living causes ‘gentrification of the heart’
Francis X. Rocca, Catholic News Service
Pope Francis warned against “gentrification of the heart” as a consequence of comfortable living, and called on the faithful to “touch the flesh of Christ” by caring for the needy.
Cronyism, competition, and finance: A discussion with Cliff Asness
AEI Ideas
After providing a definition of cronyism, Asness offered an explanation for the growth of cronyism today, which is rooted in the increasing size and scope of government. Only by limiting government’s growth can we limit opportunities for cronyism, Asness argued.
