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Jonathan Church

Jonathan Church is a senior editor at Merion West. He is an economist with expertise in energy economics and inflation measurement. In addition to authoring numerous essays, he has published two books: Reinventing Racism: Why “White Fragility” Is the Wrong Way to Think about Racial Inequality and Virtue in an Age of Identity Politics: A Stoic Approach to Social Justice. He holds an undergraduate degree in economics and philosophy from the University of Pennsylvania and a master’s degree in economics from Cornell University.

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Interviews

7 pieces

  1. In the Digital Age, the Need to Remain Human Is Stronger Than Ever

  2. Do We Need a New Deal for the Twenty-First Century?

  3. Why We Need Better College Rankings

  4. Visions of Hell: What One Man Sees in October 7th

  5. Mihai Nadin: Disrupter of Science

  6. Richard Kemp: Israel’s Existential Campaign to Destroy Hamas

  7. Phyllis Chesler: Modern Feminism’s Failure to Condemn Hamas

Articles

42 pieces

  1. Harvard Needs to Be Consistent on the Virtue of Free Speech
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  2. As the Word “Racism” Loses Its Meaning
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  3. Why Karl Marx Is Wrong
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  4. Robin DiAngelo’s White Fragility Theory Falls Prey to Logical Fallacies
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  5. Why We Have Banned Social Media for Our Child
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  6. Ten Notable Articles from 2025
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  7. Reflecting on Tragedy: From Brown University to Bondi Beach
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  8. Can "Deliberative Polling" Solve Polarization?
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  9. The Supreme Court Takes a Welcome Stand against Reverse Discrimination
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  10. Spinoza and the Unrest of Capitalism
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  11. Jimmy Carter: A Man Ahead of His Time
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  12. Editor’s Choice: Notable Articles in 2024
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  13. The Discontents of Capitalism
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  14. The Paradox of Capitalism
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  15. The End of Capitalism

  16. The Sophistry of the New Right Activism
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  17. “Neoliberalism” Is a Delusion of Marxists
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  18. Yes, January 6th Was an Insurrection
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  19. How Scholars and Activists Have Reinvented Our Understanding of Racism
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  20. The Problems with Diversity Training
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  21. Would Socrates Be Anti-Woke? A Stoic Critique of Identity Politics
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  22. The Greatness of Ronald Reagan
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  23. Karl Marx’s Theory of Primitive Accumulation Is Wrong
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  24. The Many Problems with Race Reparations in the United States (Part Two)
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  25. The Many Problems with Race Reparations in the United States
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  26. The Failed Attempt to Rescue Marx’s Labor Theory of Value
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  27. What Karl Marx Got Wrong About Value
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  28. Stoicism Offers an Antidote to Cancel Culture
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  29. When John F. Kennedy Saved the World (Part II)
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  30. When John F. Kennedy Saved the World
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  31. Forgiving All Debt Is a Step in the Wrong Direction
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  32. The Trump Putsch
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  33. Ibram Kendi’s Thesis Could Use a Lot More Rigor (Part II)
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  34. Ibram Kendi’s Thesis Could Use a Lot More Rigor
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  35. The False Dichotomy in Kimberlé Crenshaw’s Intersectionality
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  36. The Dangers of Campus Speech Codes: Revisiting the Water Buffalo Affair
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  37. Colin Kaepernick and a False Dichotomy
    Op-Ed

  38. What Søren Kierkegaard Can Teach the Left About Ayn Rand
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  39. There Is No Free Lunch: Landlords Are Not Leeches
    Op-Ed

  40. In Reply to Ben Burgis: Capitalism, Socialism, and Marx
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  41. Robin DiAngelo Is Correct about the Psychic Weight of Race
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  42. Shakespeare and Social Justice Ideology: Othello Is Not About Racism
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