July 12, 2019
July 05, 2019
Is income inequality acceptable?
In the past few weeks, democratic presidential hopefuls outlined income inequality fixes anywhere from $1,000 per month basic income to free college and single payer healthcare. While many operate on the assumption that income equality results in a fair economic system, I do not. Continue Reading...
July 03, 2019
‘Regulated leisure’, the basis of culture?
Every summer, as I prepare for much needed vacation, I am reminded of my favorite book, Josef Pieper’s Leisure: The Basis of Culture. It was written by the neo-Thomistic philosopher who condemned a world of “total work.” Continue Reading...
July 01, 2019
Is social media the source of our social problems?
The British economist John Kay made a powerful argument in his 2011 book Obliquity: Why our goals are best achieved indirectly that the best way to achieve any complex of broadly defined goal is indirectly through a gradual process of risk taking and discovery. Continue Reading...
June 21, 2019
From folkways to institutions: Why culture matters for the economy
In our efforts to reduce poverty and spur economic growth, we can be overly consumed in debates about top-down policy tactics and the proper allocation of physical resources. Yet, as many economists are beginning to recognize, the distinguishing features of free and flourishing societies are more readily found at the levels of culture—attitudes, beliefs, and imagination. Continue Reading...
June 03, 2019
Are rising education and healthcare costs our own fault?
May 30, 2019
Rev. Robert Sirico on socialism and the religious left in the Detroit News
May 28, 2019
Video: Cory Booker makes the case for school choice in Grand Rapids (October 2000)
May 28, 2019
LBJ’s Great Society lives on
May 24, 2019