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Samuel Gregg

Samuel Gregg is the Friedrich Hayek Chair in Economics and Economic History at the American Institute for Economic Research, and the author, most recently, of The Next American Economy: Nation, State, and Markets in an Uncertain World (2022).

The Founders’ Natural Rights Philosophy Does Not Entail Radical Autonomy

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It’s an error for conservatives to see the American Founding’s emphasis on natural rights as necessarily fostering extreme individualism in contemporary America. Eighteenth-century Americans would have viewed the notion that rights could be exercised contrary to natural law as ridiculous.

Charles de Gaulle and the Return of the Nation

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In an age when supranational technocrats, utopian globalists, leftists contemptuous of patriotism, and tribal populists seem locked in relentless struggle with each other, we need individuals like Charles de Gaulle more than ever.

Patrick Deneen and the Problem with Liberalism

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Patrick Deneen poses good questions but begs others. The second installment in the Public Discourse symposium on Why Liberalism Failed.

Trump’s Tariffs and Why America Needs a Patriotic Case for Free Trade

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While the economic arguments for free trade remain compelling, the political rationale requires a long-overdue overhaul.

How Europe’s Way of Denial Became a Way of Death

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Europe’s immigration woes underscore how much of the continent is living in untruth—in lies that gradually kill.

Alexander Hamilton: Revolutionary Conservative Lawyer

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A new book illustrates how Alexander Hamilton used British legal traditions and the American judiciary to give a distinctive constitutional form to a new republic.

Capitalism, Conservatives, and the Intellectuals: A Reply to Matthew McManus

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Not only are there many forms of capitalism, but intellectuals exert great influence in determining what type of economy we embrace—for better and for worse.

First Things and the Market Economy: A Response to R. R. Reno

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More than ever, religiously informed conservatives should underscore the importance of market economies for ordered liberty.

National Sovereignty and the Challenge of Immigration

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The idea of national sovereignty is indispensable to any coherent discussion of immigration policy.

Reason, Faith, and the Struggle for Western Civilization

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Any defense of the West must be clear about those core commitments to reason and the reasonable God that are central to its identity.

John Stuart Mill’s Intolerant Faith and the Religion of Liberalism

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John Stuart Mill foreshadows the deeply intolerant faith and agenda of contemporary liberalism.

Globalist Illusions and the Folly of Global Governance

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Global governance projects don’t just foster unaccountable bureaucracies and rule by experts. They are increasingly corrupting the idea of human rights.

Neil Gorsuch, Natural Law, and the Limits of Judicial Power

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What does natural law say about the power of judges in constitutional systems of government?

Michael Novak: Catholic, American Patriot, and Lover of Liberty

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The life and work of Michael Novak was a witness to Christian faith and the promise of America.

Good Money

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Lasting reform of our monetary systems require serious rethinking of the state’s role vis-à-vis money.

Shedding Light on Progressivism’s Dark Side

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A new book details the progressive movement’s reliance on eugenics and race science as well as its effort to exclude the disabled, blacks, immigrants, the poor, and women from full participation in American society.

Tocqueville and Democracy’s Fall in America

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For Alexis de Tocqueville, American democracy’s passion for equality was a potentially fatal flaw—one that religion could help address. But what happens when religion also becomes preoccupied with equality?

Markets, Catholicism, and Libertarianism

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Supporting markets as the economic arrangements most likely to help promote human flourishing doesn’t necessarily mean you accept libertarian philosophical premises.

How Christianity Created the Free Society

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While many Christians have undermined human liberty, a new book of essays shows just how much of our contemporary freedom we owe to the Christian church, Christian thinkers, and Christian practice rather than liberals and liberalism.

Regensburg, Ratzinger, and Our Crisis of Reason

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Against the Age of Feelings, Joseph Ratzinger has consistently upheld the power of reason in all its fullness.

George Washington’s Constitutional Morality

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In the age of Clinton and Trump, we need the principles and ideals that animated America’s first president more than ever.

Adam Smith, Economic Nationalism, and the Case for Free Trade

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As economic nationalism enjoys a resurgence across the developed world, Adam Smith reminds us of how much we stand to lose—and not just economically.

Global Capitalism versus Christianity? A Response to David Bentley Hart

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Christianity has never seen the pursuit of virtue as incompatible with private possession of wealth.

Constitutional Conservatism: Its Meaning and Its Future

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The project of constitutional conservatism must be about more than restoring limits on government. It must also invoke the ends of the American experiment in ordered liberty if the United States is to resist the siren-calls of egalitarianism and populism.
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