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
July 26, 2019
What the Founders Had to Say About National Debt
Cal Thomas,
The Daily Signal
The Founders of the United States of America warned against massive federal debt, but, to our detriment, their political descendants are not paying attention.
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July 25, 2019
Michel Aupetit, the Archbishop of Paris, was rather new to his role when the Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris fire pushed him into the spotlight. But Aupetit was more than ready to take his place in the public square, says Samuel Gregg.
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July 25, 2019
The Debt Is Mounting. Here’s How to Rescue Our Children’s Future.
Romina Boccia,
The Daily Signal
With an economy that’s strong, that creates opportunities, and that grows wages, people are experiencing the American dream.
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July 24, 2019
What just happened?
The White House Office of Management and Budget recently released a forecast that the federal deficit would exceed $1 trillion this year. As Fox News points out, this would be the first time since the four years following the Great Recession that the deficit reached that level.
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July 24, 2019
Wars on Poverty
Marvin Olasky,
WORLD
About once a month a WORLD reader asks me, “What should I read to learn how to help the poor and how not to?”
Industrial Policy and National Conservatism: A Debate
Law and Liberty
Oren Cass and Richard Reinsch debate the resolution, “America should adopt an industrial policy.”
Where a Major Child-Poverty Report Went Wrong
Robert VerBruggen,
Institute for Family Studies
When the report dropped in February, conservatives were especially irked by its sidelining of work requirements.
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July 23, 2019
The federal debt is a risk to our future. The nation’s growing debt will weaken our economy and threaten our safety and security. Unfortunately, politicians either avoid the issue or suggest reforms that sound good but can’t solve the problem.
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July 23, 2019
How to Talk to Millennials About Socialism
Ben Wilterdink,
The Beacon
While it is true that many, or even most, Millennials tell pollsters that they prefer socialism over capitalism, this finding obscures the fact that many don’t really understand what those terms mean.
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July 22, 2019
On Friday I mentioned the ongoing labor dispute between the workers and management of Bernie Sanders’s presidential campaign. The longtime advocate of raising the federal minimum to $15 an hour is finding that it’s easy to complain about greedy employers until you become the one having to make payroll.
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July 22, 2019
As religious freedom summit ends, State Department announces new alliance, sanctions
Adelle M. Banks,
Religion News Service
Trump administration officials announced a new alliance with U.S. partners focused on religious freedom and new sanctions against foreign military officials supporting countries the U.S.
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July 19, 2019
Who would have predicted that the hottest labor dispute of the summer would be between the workers and management of Bernie Sanders’s presidential campaign?
Sanders is a long-time champion of raising the federal minimum to $15 an hour, so his campaign workers assumed they’d earn that level of pay too:
Campaign field hires have demanded an annual salary they say would be equivalent to a $15-an-hour wage, which Sanders for years has said should be the federal minimum.
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