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February 14, 2025

The Crisis and Promise of Fatherhood

Few societal institutions are as vital yet as overlooked as fatherhood. The moral, economic, and spiritual implications of engaged fatherhood are profound, yet modern policy, legal structures, and cultural narratives often fail to recognize its essential role in human flourishing. Continue Reading...
February 13, 2025

Ida B. Wells: The Journalist Who Exposed Southern Horrors

This year is the 150th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1875, which guaranteed African Americans equal treatment in public transportation. The U.S. Supreme Court in 1883 declared the Act unconstitutional, saying it infringed on the ability of private companies and individuals to run their affairs as they wanted. Continue Reading...
February 12, 2025

Immigration, Subsidiarity, and State Sovereignty in the Age of Trump

Immigration has driven ideological discord and social fragmentation perhaps more than any other issue. Since assuming office in January, President Donald J. Trump has signed a series of executive orders empowering the Department of Homeland Security and its primary investigative arm, ICE, to expand border security and hasten the removal of illegal immigrants by way of individual and mass deportations. Continue Reading...
February 11, 2025

Reflecting the Mind of God in Mere Economics

“The fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Spanish Scholastics … correctly reasoned that God was not going to leave the social world a chaotic mess. They recognized a ‘humane science’ reflecting the mind of God while rendering the social world intelligible. Continue Reading...
February 07, 2025

Moses and Javier Milei

I have written and been interviewed several times about President Javier Milei of Argentina. Like most observers, my focus has been on his economic policies. This is understandable. Milei often describes himself as a professor of economics who happens to be president. Continue Reading...
February 06, 2025

The Stoic Generation

For an ancient philosophy, Stoicism is wildly popular right now. Silicon Valley tech barons and young men in weight rooms across the country are searching for guidance, and they often find it among the maxims of Epictetus, Seneca, and Marcus Aurelius. Continue Reading...
February 05, 2025

Fusionism and the Problem of Order

Fusionism—the union of libertarian political economy and traditional Judeo-Christian morality and spirituality—has been dubbed “the dead consensus” for some time. The consensus persists among American conservative intellectuals, but few have the energy to defend it against recent attacks. Continue Reading...