Elizabeth Warren

June 24, 2022

Income inequality is not a problem for government to fix

Implicit in concerns about rising income inequality is a critique of the underlying system that generated that inequality: a free market regulated by competition. In a free market, people are rewarded with earnings that correspond to the value they create for others. Continue Reading...

June 02, 2021

Beyond nationalism and globalism: Jesus points to another kingdom

In our era of hyper-partisanship, often we think of political divides in simple terms of Republicans versus Democrats, or progressives versus conservatives. Nevertheless, even today there are some divides that cut across party lines. Continue Reading...

May 20, 2020

The Acton Institute encourages 275 million people to embrace liberty

From the Enlightenment to the works of Jean-Paul Sartre and Jacques Derrida, the power of French ideas has radically altered the rest of the world. The Acton Institute has engaged France’s long history as a global thought leader in two new French-language articles, which discuss contemporary French influence on U.S. Continue Reading...

February 03, 2020

Warren wants to stop Russia from spreading disinformation, like she does

Today is the Iowa caucuses. For Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), it may be a campaign-defining day. Her support has been waning in the polls in what should be one of her strongest states. Continue Reading...

January 30, 2020

This policy would destroy $11.5 trillion of U.S. wealth

A presidential season is a time of policies, proposals, and promises. All will guarantee they will increase national wealth and well-being, but history and rational analysis show that some reforms will hurt the very voters who support them. Continue Reading...

October 16, 2019

Fact check: 5 facts about the fourth Democratic debate of 2019

The largest number of candidates to date filled the stage at Otterbein University in Westerville, Ohio, for the fourth Democratic presidential debate last night. They offered a number of statements and assessments that bear further scrutiny. Continue Reading...

September 18, 2019

Fact check: Did the wealth tax increase the number of millionaires?

“If you want less of something, tax it,” the old adage goes. If that is the case, why is a prominent European newspaper reporting that the number of millionaires increased after one nation introduced a wealth tax? Continue Reading...

September 16, 2019

Every politician is Andrew Yang

Richard Nixon supposedly once said, “We’re all Keynesians now,” referring to the new accepted regime of monetary policy. Today, we have far bigger problems than our Keynesian Federal Reserve. Any present-day politician could just as well say, “We’re all Andrew Yang now.” Continue Reading...

June 04, 2019

How ‘conservatives’ became the war party

The only thing that can overcome the stupidity of modern-day progressives like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the 24 people contending for the 2020 presidential nomination of the Democratic Party is an understanding of the price—and the consequences — of the policies that they preach. Continue Reading...

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