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Peter LeithartTheologyEconomics

Make Friends Using Mammon

Money is not meant for material ends, but for the aid and support of our neighbors.

Matthew LoftusCultureEthicsEconomics

four theses on immigration - Doctors Without Boredom

The only solution to the immigration crisis involves making many places around the world worth staying in.

Jake MeadorHistoryEconomicsBook Reviews

Gray on Sociology - Commonplaces

Gray: If Positivism is the chief source of the twentieth century’s most powerful secular religions it is partly through its impact on the social sciences. For Positivists, modernity is the transformation of the world by the use of scientific knowledge. […]

Jake MeadorEconomicsBook ReviewsJulius NyererePan-Africanism

Reading the Pan-Africanists: Julius Nyerere (II) - Commonplaces

Continuing: The production of wealth, whether by primitive or modern methods, requires three things. First, land. God has given us the land, and it is from the land that we get the raw materials which we reshape to meet our […]

Jake MeadorHistoryEconomicsBook Reviews

Positivism and Universal Free Markets - Commonplaces

Gray: The core of Logical Positivism was the development of a scientific worldview. Going further than Saint-Simon and Comte, the Logical Positivists declared that only the verifiable propositions of science have meaning: strictly speaking, religion, metaphysics and morality are nonsense. […]

Jake MeadorEconomics

Basil the Great Addresses the Rich - Commonplaces

St Basil: Since, then, the wealth still overflows, it gets buried underground, stashed away in secret places. For (they say), “what’s to come is uncertain, we may face unexpected needs.” Therefore it is equally uncertain whether you will have any […]

Matthew LoftusFamilyCultureHistoryEthicsEconomicsEducation

the liberal order and its haters - Doctors Without Boredom

What we mean when we talk about "the liberal order" or "liberalism" and why it's destroying us.

Jake MeadorFamilyEconomics

Opportunities for Renewal After the Sexual Revolution - Commonplaces

Matt Yglesias has an astute piece noting some reasons for concern amongst progressives re: the long string of success their movement has enjoyed with regards to LGBT+ issues: We had a roughly 10-year period of political routs (starting with the […]

Jake MeadorEconomics

Christian Publications in a Post-Christian Context - Commonplaces

We know there are two models that work for financing media jobs right now. The first model is to work for a print legacy institution that was well-positioned to weather the transition to digital and is now flush with subscription […]

Jake MeadorEconomics

The Quiet Centrality of Market States - Commonplaces

Somewhat improbably, the reformist Republican critique of market-states may actually be more trenchant than the moderate Democratic critique.

Jake MeadorEconomicshealth

The Post-Liberal State and the (Highly Technical) Goods of Modernity

The reality of local political authority? Si. The de facto abolition of the administrative state? No.

Jake MeadorEconomics

Martin Bucer's Anti-Poverty Program | Commonplaces

Bucer's plan for fighting poverty in late medieval Europe has elements that will offend both left and right, which is precisely why it is so interesting.