April 09, 2014
Posts by Joe Carter
April 08, 2014
Supreme Court Delivers Setback to Free Speech and Religious Liberty
April 07, 2014
7 Figures: Wages and Employment in America
[Note: This is the first post in ‘7 Figures’, a new, occasional series highlighting data and information from a variety of surveys and reports.]
The U.S. Department of Labor recently released data from the Occupational Employment Statistics program, which provides employment and wage estimates by area and by industry for wage and salary workers in hundreds of occupation groups in America. Continue Reading...
April 04, 2014
No, the Pope doesn’t need distributism (because nobody does)
Pope Francis needs distributism, argues Arthur W. Hunt III in the latest issue of The American Conservative. Hunt says that Americans and popes alike can embrace a humane alternative to modern capitalism:
In the midst of their scramble to claim the new Pope, many on the left missed what the Pontiff said was a nonsolution. Continue Reading...
April 03, 2014
Christ’s Preferential Option for Tax Collectors
April 02, 2014
Samuel Gregg on Just Money
April 01, 2014
The Most Deadly Environmental Problem in the World Today (Is Not Climate Change)
March 31, 2014
Homeschooled Students are More Politically Tolerant Than Their Peers
Critics of homeschooling have long maintained that it fails to inculcate students with the civic virtues necessary to maintain our republican form of democracy. But a study finds that when it comes to willingness to extend basic civil liberties to people who hold views with which one disagrees, homeschooled students are more tolerant than their peers:
Scholar Albert Cheng’s just-published fascinating and provocative study provides one of the first solid portions of empirical evidence about whether the homeschooled become more or less politically intolerant than others.[3] Continue Reading...
March 28, 2014
The Four Most Imporant Legal Questions in the Hobby Lobby Case
March 28, 2014
When Work is a Holy Undertaking
At Patheos, Joel J. Miller discusses how God uses work to fashion our souls:
Not long ago I looked at an icon of Archbishop Luke of Simferopol and Crimea, a recent Orthodox saint who lived from 1877 to 1961. Continue Reading...