October 02, 2017
August 15, 2017
The self-defeating nature of sin taxes
Rev. Ben Johnson, senior editor at the Acton Institute, writes at CapX that bishops should refrain from encouraging sin taxes.
Recently in Poland, a letter written by bishop Tadeusz Bronakowski was read aloud in many Catholic churches, stating that the “state has a ‘responsibility’ to pass laws limiting alcohol’s ‘physical and economic availability,’ and to back them up with ‘ruthless enforcement.'” Continue Reading...
June 30, 2017
Reining in the EPA’s regulatory overreach
President Donald Trump turned heads and drew criticisms for his efforts to curb the regulatory reach of the Environmental Protection Agency. With the appointment of Scott Pruitt to lead the agency, Trump has vowed to create a leaner bureaucracy by requiring agencies to repeal two regulations for each new regulation enacted. Continue Reading...
May 31, 2017
The Importance of Incompetence
Today at Public Discourse, I argue that in addition to idealism and self-interest, incompetence needs to be recognized as a more important factor in politics:
[U]nless we add incompetence as a category of analysis, we will tend to view every victory for our own team as a triumph of justice or freedom or equality (idealism), and every failure the result of deep and convoluted corruption (self-interest). Continue Reading...
December 22, 2016
The case for principles-based regulations
November 29, 2016
Financial deregulation expands opportunity
November 02, 2016
The Christian Statesman and the Gospel to the Poor
September 27, 2016
Angry about high-priced EpiPens? Blame cronyism and overregulation
July 19, 2016
The real reason the economy is ‘rigged’
July 08, 2016