Joe Carter is a Senior Editor at the Acton Institute. Joe also serves as an editor at the The Gospel Coalition, a communications specialist for the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, and as an adjunct professor of journalism at Patrick Henry College. He is the editor of the NIV Lifehacks Bible and co-author of How to Argue like Jesus: Learning Persuasion from History's Greatest Communicator (Crossway).
Posts by Joe Carter
April 23, 2019
Note: This is post #120 in a weekly video series on basic economics.
Last week we looked at how the U.S. Federal Reserve controlled the supply of money prior to the Great Recession.
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April 23, 2019
Stable families and home ownership are the key to reducing poverty
Patrick Spencer,
CapX
Owning a home is about so much more than just a rent-free financial asset.
How the Invisible Hand of William Shakespeare Influenced Adam Smith
Stuart Kells,
Smithsonian Magazine
Born more than 150 years apart, the two British luminaries each encountered rough receptions for their radical ideas
Sorry Democrats, but Your Stars Are Socialists
Rich Lowry,
Politico
The most compelling stars of the Democratic Party are self-described socialists.
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April 22, 2019
[Note: This is the first in an occasional series, Remedial Civics, which provides information on what you should have learned in school—but probably didn’t—about how the U.S. government works (or doesn’t).]
The Congress of the United States is a bicameral legislature, which means that it is made up of two chambers, or houses: the Senate and the House of Representatives.
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April 22, 2019
[Note: This is the introduction to an occasional series that provides information on what you should have learned in school—but probably didn’t—about how the U.S. government works (or why it doesn’t).]
For most of my adult life I thought I knew how laws were made.
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April 22, 2019
The false choice between capitalism and saving the planet
Oliver Wiseman,
CapX
Growth, innovation and development aren’t the problem. They are the solution.
The strange endgame of protectionism
Scott Sumner,
EconLib
Any policy that encourages the export of farm products also encourages the import of manufactured goods.
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April 19, 2019
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Today is Good Friday*, the religious holiday that commemorates the crucifixion of Jesus Christ and his death at Calvary. Christians have celebrated the event for over two millennia.
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April 18, 2019
Earlier this week two presidential candidates made comments that how nationalism is dominating American politics.
The first came when South Bend mayor Pete Buttigieg told Rachel Maddow “national service will become one of the themes of [my] 2020 campaign.” He said he hopes to “make it, if not legally obligatory, then a social norm.”
This in itself is not all that surprising since promoting national service is part of the Democrat Party platform:
We believe in the power of national service to solve problems and break down barriers by bringing people of all backgrounds together in common purpose.
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April 18, 2019
Frédéric Bastiat on the Connection between Socialism, Communism, and Protectionism
Tyler Brandt,
FEE
Bastiat’s words are just as true today as when he wrote them with a quill pen in 19th-century France.
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April 17, 2019
“Christians ended slavery. Do you think that’s a conservative simpleton’s mock-worthy bombast, embarrassing the rest of us with his black-and-white, unapologetic caricature of American history?” asks John B. Carpenter in this week’s Acton Commentary.
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April 17, 2019
As the old saying goes, “If you can’t do the time, don’t do the crime.” But how much time do you have to do if you commit a crime? Probably not as long as you’d imagine.
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