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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...
February 04, 2025

Assisted Dying in the U.K.: The End of Compassion?

There is a real prospect that assisted dying (or to be somewhat more transparent, assisted suicide) will become law in the United Kingdom in 2025. In October 2024, Labour Member of Parliament (MP) Kim Leadbeater introduced the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill. Continue Reading...
January 30, 2025

The New Iconoclasm

Today’s iconoclasts seek little more than a photo in the newspaper, feeding their narcissistic love of the image of themselves performing destruction. In the historical struggle over images—iconomachy (Eikonomachía)—there is no doubt that in the Christian West the iconophiles were victorious. Continue Reading...
January 28, 2025

Reading Genesis with Marilynne Robinson

The best part of Reading Genesis by Marilynne Robinson is Genesis. I make this observation sincerely, intending no disparagement of Robinson’s insightful reading of the first book of the Bible. But it was a surprise and delight to pick up Reading Genesis, thumb through it for the first time, and discover that the last third of its 344 pages consists of the book of Genesis itself. Continue Reading...