Interviews

February 11, 2019

Socialism, by any other name

At the end of January I had the pleasure to speak with my friend of many years Ricardo Ball about the ongoing crisis in Venezuela. The conversation was livestreamed from the Acton Institute allowing an international audience to listen in as we discussed recent developments from the streets of Caracas. Continue Reading...

January 28, 2019

From the streets of Caracas, Venezuela

Perhaps nothing sums up the situation in socialist Venezuela quite like the photo below. Within just a few feet of a grocery store, people dig through a garbage truck in desperation looking for food. Continue Reading...

January 04, 2019

Criminal justice reform: Possible effects of the First Step Act

This is part three of a series on criminal justice reform. The First Step Act was one of the last laws passed by the 115th Congress and signed by President Trump before the current federal government shutdown. Continue Reading...

December 28, 2018

Criminal justice reform: What does economics have to say?

This is part two of a series on criminal justice reform. Read part one here. For many, crime and criminal justice are not obvious economic issues, despite their effects on public budgets due to the cost of courts, policing, investigating crimes, and much more. Continue Reading...

December 21, 2018

Joy for the world: The true source of our economic witness

As the culture around us continues to move farther into post-Christian territory, the Christian response has often taken the shape of heavy-handed strategy or top-down mobilization. The goal: to win the culture back! Continue Reading...

December 21, 2018

Teaching The Gulag Archipelago to American college students

In December, the PowerBlog is marking the centenary of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s birth (Dec. 11, 1918) “Why didn’t they tell us this? I never heard this from my teachers.” That’s the late Edward E. Continue Reading...

December 20, 2018

C.S. Lewis on the strangeness of Christmas in a post-Christian age

Christmas has surely seen its share of “secularization,” from the cliché consumerism to the countless sub-genre rom-coms to the increasing dilution of holiday music to the exultation of any number of other pet nostalgias. Continue Reading...

December 19, 2018

Scratching our way back from World War I

This year witnessed the centenary commemoration of the respective births of two champions of Christian thought and human liberty, Russell Kirk and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Both men were born coincidentally in the same time frame – October and December 1918 respectively – in which the “war to end all wars” ceased. Continue Reading...

December 19, 2018

The way of the manger: How the incarnation transforms work into witness

“Our Lord was not predestined by his Father to birth where we might have expected him…He was born, by divine design, into a laboring man’s dwelling…Our Lord precedes understanding with doing. Continue Reading...

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