Culture, Economics, and Common Grace.

Culture, Economics, and Common Grace.

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Experts Do Not Lift a Finger to Help the Poor in Colombia

After the Marshall Plan, the development industry moved to Bogota's luxury hotels. A hard look...

March 5, 2021
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Our Great Purpose: Ryan Hanley on Adam Smith

Adam Smith wrote about virtue before he wrote about markets. Ryan Hanley draws lessons from...

October 15, 2019
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The Misinformation Age by O’Connor and Weatherall

How false beliefs spread through scientific and social networks, and how propagandists exploit the way...

February 15, 2019
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Specialization and Trade by Arnold Kling

Arnold Kling argues the economy is not a machine to be modeled but a web...

August 24, 2016
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Real Education by Charles Murray

Four uncomfortable truths about American schooling: ability varies, half of children are below average, too...

August 10, 2016
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Coming Apart by Charles Murray

Charles Murray argues industriousness, honesty, marriage and religiosity have collapsed in working-class America while a...

December 15, 2013
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Tocqueville on American Character by Michael Ledeen

Michael Ledeen applies Tocqueville to modern America: restless equality, voluntary religion, a genius for cooperation,...

April 15, 2013
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The Bottom Billion by Paul Collier

Paul Collier on why the poorest billion stay stuck: civil war, natural resources, being landlocked...

May 20, 2008
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The Philosophy of History by R.J. Rushdoony

R.J. Rushdoony on history under a sovereign God: whether time comes from chaos or eternity,...

June 15, 2004
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