When Botswana gained independence from the British in 1966, the nation was the third-poorest in the world. Then, for three decades it was the world’s fastest growing economy. Today it’s in the top 15 richest countries in Africa. Continue Reading...
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February 18, 2015
Does Manual Labor Have a Place in the Faith and Work Discussion?
February 18, 2015
Audio: Samuel Gregg on Pope Francis, Faithful Catholics, and the Religious and Secular Left
February 18, 2015
How U.S. Farm Subsidies Hurt the Global Poor
February 18, 2015
Look Under the Bed! ‘Rand-Baiters’ Target Conservative Catholics
February 18, 2015
More Than 300 Trafficking Victims Set Free In India
February 17, 2015
Would Kuyper go to Mars?
In his otherwise excellent work The Problem of Poverty, the Dutch theologian Abraham Kuyper, as a man of his time (the late-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries), commended the merits of colonialism as if there were not already people in other lands with their own calling to “till the earth” that God had made. Continue Reading...
February 17, 2015
New Report: Orthodox Monastic Communities in the United States
February 17, 2015
Battlefield Entrepreneurs: The Secret of Israeli Innovation?
February 17, 2015