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Video: William B. Allen on the Common Foundation of Christianity and Modern...
On Thursday, June 16th, it was a great pleasure to welcome William B. Allen – Emeritus Professor of Political Philosophy and Emeritus Dean of James Madison College at Michigan State University – as a...
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Richard Epstein on conflict between anti-discrimination laws and religious...
Picture of Mississippi governor Phil Bryant, who signed HB 1523 into law. A federal judge recently struck down the law. Photo courtesy of U.S. Department of Agriculture Read more on Richard Epstein on...
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When a fashion designer recently called for an industry boycott of Melania Trump due to her political beliefs, plenty of progressives called it brave and principled. Yet when Christian wedding...
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“A group demonstrating yoga” by Vijayanrajapuram (CC BY 4.0 International) In North America ‘Yoga’ is synonymous with exercise consisting of a series of postures as well as form-fitting and...
View ArticleValue investing: Restoring ownership and ethics to investment
In today’s global economy, it can be easy to feel like robotic worker bees or petty consumer fleas in a big, blurry economic order. The feeling is understandable. Value creation, even at its largest...
View ArticleThe spiritual core of liberty
Last week FEE published an essay by economist Dierdre McCloskey titled “The Core of Liberty is Economic Liberty.” McCloskey writes, [E]conomic liberty is the liberty about which most ordinary people...
View ArticleA Samson Option for Ireland’s Catholic hospitals?
National funding of health care has produced a fresh crisis in Europe. Not merely the never-ending “winter crisis” in the NHS each year, but a crisis of conscience for Catholic health care providers....
View ArticleHuckleberry Finn’s moral conscience
Few authors could spin words as well as Mark Twain, but the image of the chronicler of the Mississippi is perhaps more one of style and storytelling than of depth. We don’t read Tom Sawyer or...
View ArticleSphere sovereignty and limited (and legitimate) government
The Dutch theologian and statesman Abraham Kuyper is well-known for his articulation of sphere sovereignty, and the following passage from the third volume of his Common Grace trilogy is a clear and...
View ArticleTruth, Conscience, and the (New) American Way
We live in a culture where many believe that the claims of their emotional lives trump all other considerations. This sentimental understanding of the self is driven by our culture’s obsession with...
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