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Moral Realism, Public Health, and Truth Telling Amid COVID-19

As we look toward life after COVID-19, we must do so with a more capacious understanding of public health that encompasses all of a society's life together.

John LeeFeaturedEconomics and Business

Ark of Consumerism - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Rockefeller Center sprawls for 22 acres in one of the densest cities on earth, its highest tower stretches 850 feet into the sky, and it has over 8,000,000 square feet of office and retail space. Within this complex dwells a […]

Kyle WilliamsFeaturedEconomics and Business

Happiness, Virtue, and the Bastard Science - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Happiness is a personal problem. Or so it may seem. Consider the self-help section. A library of recent books offers just the right mindset, self-care regimen, or practical hack for troubled souls who, presumably, hope that one more piece of […]

John ThomasEconomics and Business

Book Review: The Economist's Hour by Binyamin Applebaum

Applebaum’s book traces the rise of free market economic policies in the U.S. and how those policies have increased inequality and harmed liberal democracy.

Austin GohnFeaturedEconomics and Business

We’re All Truman Now: On the Age of Surveillance Capitalism

Shoshana Zuboff's "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism" is a harrowing picture of big tech that lacks an anthropology able to address the problems it raises.

Guest WriterFeaturedEconomics and BusinessCurrent Politics

Israel Folau, Submitting to Masters, and the Modern Corporation

The case of rugby player Israel Folau raises the question of whether Christians must submit to corporations in the way they submit to the government.

John ThomasFeaturedEconomics and Business

Workism and Desire: To what end do we work? - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

By John Thomas On February 24th, in an article titled Workism Is Making Americans Miserable, Derek Thompson made a compelling case that for many college-educated men and women, work has become a religion. Thompson writes,

Matthew LoftusFamilyFeaturedEconomics and BusinessCurrent Politics

Time to Flourish: On the Center for Public Justice's New Paid Family Leave Report - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

The Center for Public Justice's new report on paid family leave is a valuable advocacy piece on an important issue, but lacks detail in key places.

Guest WriterEconomics and Business

You shouldn't critique an economy that doesn't actually exist.

Ben Bush argues that Christian & Marxist critiques of the market economy's effect on community break down because we do not actually have a market economy.

Charlie ClarkFeaturedEconomics and Business

Let Us Now Praise Fractious Men: The Hillbilly as Economic Dissident

For all the outrage on the left over J. D. Vance's book, the economic visions of both the political left and Vance's technocrat elite are quite similar.

Charlie ClarkFeaturedEconomics and Business

Conscientious Producerism | Mere Orthodoxy

The challenges created by an alienating economy and alienating work requires us to rethink how we describe the Protestant doctrine of vocation.

Guest WriterEconomics and BusinessFormation

Work and Pray - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Tim LeCroy explains how the rhythms of work and prayer reinforce one another as part of Christian spiritual formation.