While growing up I had the daily task of making a trip to a nearby bakery to get bread for my grandfather. There was a small neighborhood bakery a short walk from our home. Continue Reading...
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January 28, 2026
Progress and Its Enemies
What ultimately drives economic growth and development? Is it culture, institutions, norms, innovation, technology, or some combination of all these things and other factors? Is there any way in which we can organize societies that will allow them to escape mass impoverishment? Continue Reading...
January 26, 2026
The Warmth of Collectivism Will Give You Frostbite
The news has been abuzz about newly elected NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani. He proudly ran as a democratic socialist and found support from kindred spirits like Bernie Sanders, who performed his swearing-in ceremony, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC). Continue Reading...
January 22, 2026
One Box Office Battle After Another
Who’s going to win big at the Oscars? I know: Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another, its title taken from a statement published in 1969 by the revolutionary-terrorist organization the Weather Underground. Continue Reading...
January 21, 2026
Saving a Liberal Order from Liberal Philosophy
In recent years, Christians across the political spectrum have grown increasingly skeptical of liberalism. Postliberal movements argue that liberal democracy is not merely insufficient but fundamentally hostile to Christianity itself. According to this view, neutrality is a myth, liberal rights are corrosive of virtue, and Christians must choose between faithfulness and liberal politics. Continue Reading...
January 20, 2026
Envy Economics: Why Aquinas and Maimonides Explain Class Warfare Better Than Marx
Political rhetoric surrounding wealth and inequality increasingly reveals an emotive posture rather than an economic argument, since public discourse now treats success as a moral provocation and prosperity as a form of quiet aggression. Continue Reading...
January 15, 2026
AI and the Return of Architectonic Labor
The free enterprise system’s greatest prophets saw the trade-off from the beginning. The division of labor generates unprecedented wealth while subjecting workers to menial labor that diminishes our personal and political capacities. Continue Reading...
January 14, 2026
Pornocracy and the Limits of Legal Limits
It’s not often that you find a cause that unites a progressive like feminist professor Catharine MacKinnon of the University of Michigan Law School and conservative Catholics and evangelicals. A crusade to pass anti-porn ordinances and statutes was just that cause in the early 1980s. Continue Reading...
January 13, 2026
A Very British America
In the popular imagination, at least, the American Revolution has become synonymous with anti-monarchism. Left- and right-wingers seek to drape their ideological causes in patriotic slogans and images that could be taken wholesale from Thomas Paine’s radical democratic pamphlet Common Sense. Continue Reading...
January 08, 2026
The Science of God, the God of Science
Philosophy, Aristotle observed, begins in wonder. Too often today, however, philosophy begins in arid formulas that look more like math equations than like curiosity about the great questions of life—“Does God exist?” Continue Reading...
