2018-07-20 23:59
No two words in the English language create the feeling of relaxation as perfectly as “summertime weekend.” But the two days of physical and spiritual rest we enjoy each week are… Read More
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2018-07-20 16:43
Although popular in his own day, C.S. Lewis has become even more influential since his death in 1963. One of the most enduring of Lewis’s works is his book Mere Christianity, which sta… Read More
2018-07-20 04:01
Can Economists and Humanists Ever Be Friends?
John Lanchester, The New Yorker
One discipline reduces behavior to elegantly simple rules; the other wallows in our full, complex particularity… Read More
2018-07-19 20:45
I am tired of hearing Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission hailed as a “victory” for religious liberty; it was no such thing—unless we’re also goi… Read More
2018-07-19 17:38
Some Catholic leaders have called the Supreme Court’s Janus decision “disappointing.” But a bishop says the Court ruled correctly, both because the union funds immoral acti… Read More
2018-07-19 16:28
In 2000, two parents founded a pizzeria in Rome with the goal of employing people with Down syndrome. Inspired by their son, who had the condition, they named it La Locanda dei Girasoli… Read More
2018-07-19 16:01
Every year tens of thousands of shareholders in Berkshire Hathaway descend on Omaha, Nebraska for the “Woodstock for capitalists.” The rock stars they’ve come to see are tw… Read More
2018-07-19 04:01
New bipartisan push launched to freeze Trump tariffs
Burgess Everett, Politico
Sens. Doug Jones and Lamar Alexander are planning to introduce a bill next week to halt President Donald Trump… Read More
2018-07-18 20:48
Ideas about the free market are spreading to Europe. Alejandro Chafuen recently spoke at a conference in Portugal and shared the work Acton has accomplished. Alejandro Chafuen, Acton’s… Read More
2018-07-18 18:31
Despite the countless blessings of modernity, expansions in freedom and economic prosperity have been accompanied by a widespread decrease in community involvement and steady increase in lon… Read More
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