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Author: Kelly Hanlon (Kelly Hanlon)

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America’s Commercial Republic, and Its Detractors: An Interview with Samuel Gregg

Key Founders believed that America’s future was to be a polity in which free and dynamic commerce would play a powerful role in defining society, as opposed to, say, the priorities of aristocratic or feudal societies. The “republic” side of this political economy equation is that this commercial society would operate within the context of institutions and sets of virtues that draw upon classical, religious, and moderate Enlightenment sources.

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Government Handouts Won’t Reverse the Baby Bust: Three Responses to Gladden Pappin

Should social conservatives embrace large-scale economic programs aimed at subsidizing family formation and childbearing? Is it more effective to focus on long-term economic growth? Are our declining birth rates really cause for concern, anyway? If they are, to what extent can the problem be solved by governmental family subsidies?

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