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October 2013

Free Enterprise, Entitlements and the Pursuit of Happiness

Jessica Rabe | October 9, 2013 | Politics

Last June, Values and Capitalism hosted a summer conference for students and professors from Christian colleges across the country. On the first night, the president of AEI, Arthur Brooks, framed the rest of the conference by discussing a few timeless principles. In...

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Jessica Lynn Rabe is a research associate at ConvergEx Group, a global brokerage company based in New York.

Reviving America’s Economy by Incentivizing Entrepreneurship

polymath | October 7, 2013 | Economics

For self-employed business consultants, writers, DJs, power-washers, fixed-gear bike repair technicians, photographers, personal chefs, canine obedience trainers and countless other professions, tax form 1099 is the one that you send to the IRS every year on April...

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Statecraft as Soulcraft: Liberal Democracy and the Christian Citizen

Kurt Jaros | October 4, 2013 | Faith

This is the third part of a series on “Politics for Christians: Statecraft as Soulcraft.” Read part one and part two. As we have learned from my last two posts, in “Politics for Christians: Statecraft as Soulcraft,” Francis J. Beckwith attempts...

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Kurt Jaros is the Executive Director of Defenders Media.

The American Family

Faith and Public Life | October 3, 2013 | Society

Over the past half-century, the structure of the American family has changed remarkably. What exactly has happened? Why did it happen? How should we think about these changes? And how can we move forward to ensure a healthy and prosperous American society for years to...

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America’s Middle Class: Why Average Is Over

polymath | October 3, 2013 | Economics

George Mason University economics professor and Marginal Revolution blogger Tyler Cowen’s new book “Average Is Over” offers a diagnosis and a remedy for the economic attenuation of the American middle class. Like Charles Murray did in “Coming Apart,” Cowen...

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