Category: PowerLinks

Joe Carter
posted by on Friday, May 24, 2013

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

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Joe Carter
posted by on Thursday, May 23, 2013

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.

Read more on PowerLinks 05.23.13…

Joe Carter
posted by on Wednesday, May 22, 2013

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.

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Joe Carter
posted by on Tuesday, May 21, 2013

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

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Joe Carter
posted by on Monday, May 20, 2013

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?

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Joe Carter
posted by on Friday, May 17, 2013

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.

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Joe Carter
posted by on Thursday, May 16, 2013

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.

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Joe Carter
posted by on Wednesday, May 15, 2013

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.

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Joe Carter
posted by on Tuesday, May 14, 2013

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.

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Joe Carter
posted by on Monday, May 13, 2013

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.

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