In their new book, Austrian Economics: An Introduction, Christopher Coyne and Abigail Hall, both professors of economics, offer a concise, accessible volume with a humble title that fills a major gap in the literature for those curious about the…
“My grandparents made it, and we still live off that.” I had just arrived in Grand Rapids when I heard someone say this. It was said casually, the way you would mention the weather. No lowered voice, no shame. That is what stopped me—not the…
Stephanie Slade’s Fusionism: Liberty, Virtue, and the Future of the American Right is the history we need to conduct contemporary debates on the American right. Under Trumpism, old conservative debates have been revived. To make those debates…
Sometimes names are so concrete and so poignant they define a person. Would Dolly Parton be the embodiment of the American musical tradition if her parents had settled on something other than Dolly? Dolly Rebecca Parton was born in 1946,…
You’re 13 years old. The teacher says you’re going on a two-week break. Something about a virus in China. Something about masks and “social distancing,” whatever that means. Two weeks turn into a month. A month turns into the rest of the school…
Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. is a leading originalist judge on the Supreme Court and has significantly contributed to conservative legal jurisprudence. Peter Canellos’s Revenge for the Sixties: Sam Alito and the Triumph of the Conservative Legal…
Not since the Industrial Revolution has humanity looked upon a technological transformation at the scale of the Digital Revolution. Before the Industrial Revolution, one might for an analogue have to look back to the prehistoric transition from…
People bristle when the United States of America is referred to as a Christian nation. Technically, it is not. There is freedom of religion baked into the Constitution. Yet, the American ethos is decidedly Christian. “Ethos” is defined, “the…
There are a lot of religions out there, but only one can be the religion of peace. How can you be sure you're on the right path?Here are 9 signs you belong to the true religion of peace: You always proclaim "God is great" before…
The Polish case illustrates a broader institutional phenomenon: administrative secularization—reducing religion’s place in public life through technical rules rather than an explicit democratic decision to exclude it. The post…
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