The attempts by both the right and the left to politicize our Constitution must be firmly rejected for the sake of our nation’s health and prosperity.
Pillar: <span>Business & Economics</span>
Business & Economics
The fifth pillar, business and economics, is built upon concern for the common good and the ways in which the economic order contributes to—or detracts from—human flourishing. Public Discourse examines the ways in which the market is shaped by—and gives shape to—our understanding of the human person, the role of the family, the rule of law, and education and culture.
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The Two-Biological-Parent Family and Economic Prosperity: Where to Go From Here
Five suggestions for how our nation can regain a healthy marriage culture and the economic prosperity and personal flourishing that comes with it. The second in a two-part series.
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The Two-Biological-Parent Family and Economic Prosperity: What’s Gone Wrong
Research shows the positive economic effect of two-biological-parent families on our society. Single parenthood and other alternative family structures not only hurt our economy, they hurt our children, those who care for them, and those for whom our children will care later in life. The first in a two-part series.
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Planned Parenthood’s Lawless Policies
Planned Parenthood must account for its disregard for the law if it wishes to retain state funding.
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Social Contracts, Human Flourishing, and the Economy
Our current economic debates underscore the case for an approach to political economy that rejects social contract theory and embraces a robust conception of human flourishing.
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Dismal Science Redeemed: Where to Go from Here
How and why considering distribution will yield a complete economic science. The second in a two-part series.
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Dismal Science Redeemed: What’s Gone Wrong
A new book challenges us to rediscover the missing element of our economic science. The first in a two-part series.
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On Aristotle’s Wide Applicability
Aristotelian virtue ethics has very little to say about what is a good political structure or economic system.
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Defending Alasdair MacIntyre’s Economics
Alasdair MacIntyre may be wrong about the details of finance, but he is right on the largest questions of political economy.
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Now is the Time to End Taxpayer Funding of Abortion
The history of federal abortion funding highlights the urgent need to reverse the new health care law’s assault on unborn life, and to enact a permanent, government-wide prohibition on federal funding of abortion.
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Risk, Uncertainty, and Rule of Law
An uncertain legal landscape puts future prosperity at risk.
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Socialism and Solidarity
It is at our own peril that we ignore the nexus between moral convictions, the institutions in which they are realized, and our economic culture.
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Pro-Lifers and “Repeal and Replace”
We need a healthcare law that is not only pro-life but that also addresses our healthcare system’s persistent problems and looming challenges.
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Unemployment and the Minimum Wage
To stimulate job creation, Democrats favor government spending and Republicans favor tax cuts, but is there a more direct way?
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Pornography and Socially Responsible Investing
The practice of socially responsible investing, often associated with opposition to apartheid or support for environmental causes, can also be a way to battle the harms of pornography.
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Tea Party Metaphysics: Where Do We Go From Here?
Social conservatives must understand and embrace America’s traditional economic culture before they can contribute to its renewal. Economic conservatives must expel the infection of shallow anthropology, vulgar utilitarianism, and metaphysical blindness that they picked up from progressivism in the 20th century.
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Tea Party Metaphysics: Economics and First Principles
The Tea Party taps into the full social and cultural power of transcendent moral appeals in a way that social conservatives have never been able to do. The first in a two-part series.
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Fiat Money and Public Debt
The government’s ability to print money at will is a nearly unquestioned feature of today’s economic order, but recent crises have highlighted its hazards.
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The New Path to Pro-Life Health Care Reform
In order to protect the unborn, we need to recognize mistakes made in the past and work to remedy them in the present.
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The Gold Standard: A Principled Case
In charting our future monetary policies, we should remember the trade-offs of competing alternatives.
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A Health Care Challenge to Commonweal and Timothy Jost
Recent events suggest that Commonweal and Timothy Jost need to reassess their arguments about health care and abortion
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How the New Health Care Law Endangers Conscience
The new health care law has endangered longstanding protections on conscience. We must act to address them or risk creating a dangerous precedent.
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Health Care, Abortion, and the Call of Conscience
Under the new health-care law, pro-lifers may have to accept inferior health plans, rather than wrongly pay into abortion providing ones.