Is the American Economy Significantly Different than Europeans Think?
The Center - “Do you realize how strange it is that professionals can move around Europe more freely than they can in the U.S.? And that overall, Alabama has more autonomy over its regulations than France does?” 11/24/2020
The Center - “Do you realize how strange it is that professionals can move around Europe more freely than they can in the U.S.? And that overall, Alabama has more autonomy over its regulations than France does?” 11/24/2020What Is a Cult, Anyway?
The Center - “The word ‘cult’ is tossed around quite frequently in media, but few can offer a precise definition.” 11/23/2020
The Center - “The word ‘cult’ is tossed around quite frequently in media, but few can offer a precise definition.” 11/23/2020Review: Carlos Lozada’s “What Were We Thinking”
The Center - “Lozada’s book provides a comprehensive, incisive analysis of the intellectual debates that defined the Trump-era. As we plunge forward into a post-Trump presidency politics, it is a must read.” 11/20/2020
The Center - “Lozada’s book provides a comprehensive, incisive analysis of the intellectual debates that defined the Trump-era. As we plunge forward into a post-Trump presidency politics, it is a must read.” 11/20/2020Finding Hope When All Seems Lost
The Center - “The alarming juxtaposition is that on the other side of this brick wall were patients dying from malaria and children being born with HIV. However, the sheer joy and optimism of this village was unbreakable and, in every sense, unexplainable.” 11/18/2020
The Center - “The alarming juxtaposition is that on the other side of this brick wall were patients dying from malaria and children being born with HIV. However, the sheer joy and optimism of this village was unbreakable and, in every sense, unexplainable.” 11/18/2020I Voted for Trump, and I’m Not a Racist
The Center - “But I had never voted in a presidential election until this year. So why did I vote in 2020?” 11/18/2020
The Center - “But I had never voted in a presidential election until this year. So why did I vote in 2020?” 11/18/2020Review: Ted Cruz’s “One Vote Away”
The Center - “One Vote Away serves as a useful primer on some of the great constitutional issues of our day, while also proving that legal judgment and political judgment are separate matters.” 11/17/2020
The Center - “One Vote Away serves as a useful primer on some of the great constitutional issues of our day, while also proving that legal judgment and political judgment are separate matters.” 11/17/2020Meritocratic Tyranny: Big, If True
The Center - “But Sandel’s critique of meritocracy runs deeper than lamenting the obvious gap between meritocratic ideals and reality; Sandel takes issue with the ideal of meritocracy itself.” 11/13/2020
The Center - “But Sandel’s critique of meritocracy runs deeper than lamenting the obvious gap between meritocratic ideals and reality; Sandel takes issue with the ideal of meritocracy itself.” 11/13/2020Ibram Kendi’s Thesis Could Use a Lot More Rigor (Part II)
The Center - “In short, Kendi’s consequentialist view of racism as rooted in policy (which, however unpredictably and unintentionally, results in racial disparities) does not explain everything.” 11/12/2020
The Center - “In short, Kendi’s consequentialist view of racism as rooted in policy (which, however unpredictably and unintentionally, results in racial disparities) does not explain everything.” 11/12/2020“Won’t Somebody Please Think of the Children”
The Center - “By becoming so concerned about the plight of children, we have become child-like ourselves.” 11/9/2020
The Center - “By becoming so concerned about the plight of children, we have become child-like ourselves.” 11/9/2020We’re Divided. But Will We Fall?
The Center - “French dedicates his book to James Madison, saying, ‘May we remember that you were right.'” 11/9/2020
The Center - “French dedicates his book to James Madison, saying, ‘May we remember that you were right.'” 11/9/2020Ibram Kendi’s Thesis Could Use a Lot More Rigor
The Center - “For Kendi, it is policy first and racism second. Debatable? That is a racist question. Maybe a presentist interpretation of history? Also racist.” 11/7/2020
The Center - “For Kendi, it is policy first and racism second. Debatable? That is a racist question. Maybe a presentist interpretation of history? Also racist.” 11/7/2020Is the West “at War with Islam”?
The Center - “This becomes painfully clear when it is one’s own city that is being attacked. I had cycled through the neighborhood a mere 30 minutes before the attack commenced.” 11/6/2020
The Center - “This becomes painfully clear when it is one’s own city that is being attacked. I had cycled through the neighborhood a mere 30 minutes before the attack commenced.” 11/6/2020America: Strained But Strong
The Center - “Hopefully, the reality of neither party being dominant will translate into a shared recognition that virtues like tolerance must be rediscovered and resuscitated in our political life.” 11/4/2020
The Center - “Hopefully, the reality of neither party being dominant will translate into a shared recognition that virtues like tolerance must be rediscovered and resuscitated in our political life.” 11/4/2020To Resist Participating in the Great Lie
The Center - “Solzhenitsyn observed through incredible hardship and deep reflection, that, in his country, the lie had ‘become not just a moral category but a pillar of the state.'” 11/2/2020
The Center - “Solzhenitsyn observed through incredible hardship and deep reflection, that, in his country, the lie had ‘become not just a moral category but a pillar of the state.'” 11/2/2020“A Cry from the Far Middle”: Lots of Laughs, And a Few Important Insights
The Center - “If there is an underlying argument here, though, it is that Americans ought to quit taking themselves—and their own tribe’s political convictions—so darn seriously.” 11/2/2020
The Center - “If there is an underlying argument here, though, it is that Americans ought to quit taking themselves—and their own tribe’s political convictions—so darn seriously.” 11/2/2020To My Fellow Catholics, Just Before Election Day
The Center - “We must face the reality that the prevalence of abortion is a manifestation of our distressed sociality and corrupted sense of mutual responsibility.” 11/1/2020
The Center - “We must face the reality that the prevalence of abortion is a manifestation of our distressed sociality and corrupted sense of mutual responsibility.” 11/1/2020