May 02, 2018
May 02, 2018
‘Avengers: Infinity War’ and the danger of idolatrous ideology
April 27, 2018
What is the Catholic Church’s teaching on the size of government?
April 24, 2018
How not to think clearly on faith and economics
Mark Labberton, President of Fuller Seminary, recently addressed a meeting of Evangelical leaders held at Wheaton College and has released a reconstruction of his remarks. It is an interesting address which spends four paragraphs explicitly addressing questions of economics and economic policy. Continue Reading...
April 18, 2018
A polite rebuke of Pope Francis’ economic confusion
Review of Pope Francis and the Caring Society, edited by Robert M. Whaples; The Independent Institute, Oakland, CA; 2017, 234 pp.
Having toiled in the free-market research universe for nearly two decades, perhaps the most common misperception I’ve encountered is “whataboutism.” Continue Reading...
April 18, 2018
Is economics an ideology?
Richard H. Spady, research professor of Economics at Johns Hopkins, has recently published a piece at First Things entitled ‘Economics as Ideology’ in which he explores some contemporary trends among economists and their use of economics as a Procrustean bed to reshape society in its own image,
A body of thought is “ideological” when it willfully projects its own first principles on its subject matter and actively seeks, perhaps unconsciously, material changes to bring social realities into conformity with these first principles. Continue Reading...
March 22, 2018
The bishop, Balaam, and communism
Lester DeKoster begins his book Communism and Christian Faith, now out in a new edition from Christian’s Library Press, with a quote from Bishop Joseph Butler’s sermon ‘Upon the Character of Balaam’:
“Things and actions are what they are, and their consequences will be what they will be: why then should we seek to be deceived?” Continue Reading...
February 26, 2018
Catholic social teaching and the Janus v. AFSCME case
February 22, 2018
New research finds connection between increases in religiosity and increases in income
February 16, 2018
Rev. Sirico: What I learned from Michael Novak
Today is the first anniversary of the death of Michael Novak. The theologian, scholar, and writer was one of the most influential Catholic thinkers of his generation, and an indefatigable champion of free enterprise, democracy, and liberty. Continue Reading...
