Jonah Goldberg’s Soulless Case for Liberty
Liberalism isn’t doing well these days. Besieged on many fronts, it stands in need of a defense that will conjugate the modern case for liberal democracy with the full heritage of Western...
View ArticleEquality versus Feeding the Hungry
The recently released Vatican document on finance and economics, Oeconomicae et pecuniariae quaestiones, seems as much calculated to balance some of Pope Francis’ statements on the topic as to...
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The Great Waves of Industrial Innovation
Here is a great and profound question: How did the world of lord and serf, horse and carriage, superstition and disease, turn into the world of boss and worker, steam and steel, science and medicine?...
View ArticleEconomic Factors That Shook Modern Marriage
I mused in Wednesday’s post about movement in the seam of family make-or-buy decisions over the last 200 years. As a result of the increasing scope of markets, and decreasing market prices for many...
View Article“Make America Great Again” v. “Make America Europe”
In the media, the midterms are all about Trump. That is not surprising. For Trump, most everything is about Trump, and he has the bully pulpit. Moreover, some people sincerely regard the President as...
View ArticleMcCloskey’s Brief Against Antiliberalism
From its very title, Deirdre McCloskey’s new book takes up the mantle of liberalism’s cause against naysayers both left and right. Why Liberalism Works plays off against Why Liberalism Failed, the...
View ArticleEnvironmental Law: Good Intentions, Bad Economics
Much of our contemporary political discourse is really a dispute over the past. This can easily be discerned by comparing Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again” slogan to the “that’s not who we...
View ArticleCapitalism Does Not Require Ever-Expanding Consumption
A notable chapter in Deirdre McCloskey’s 2019 book, Why Liberalism Works, presents her response to the oft-repeated belief that the sustainability of market capitalism requires always-increasing...
View ArticleThe Faulty Rhetoric of Income Stagnation
Both left- and right-wing attacks on liberalism (or “neo-liberalism”) highlight the claim that U.S. incomes have “stagnated” over the last generation for middle- and lower-income Americans. This...
View ArticleThe Times Reveals Its Priorities
Before making its unusual joint endorsement of Amy Klobuchar and Elizabeth Warren, The New York Times held ninety-minute, on-the-record interviews with nine candidates for President. Technically, the...
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