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Posts by Tyler Castle

Tyler Castle is the director of AEI's Initiative on Faith & Public Life. He is a graduate of Westmont College (political science), a former John Jay Institute Fellow, and a former intern for Rep. Bill Huizenga (R-MI) and AEI’s Values & Capitalism program. He writes regularly on issues of society, faith, and politics, and he is the former cocaptain of the championship-winning AEI softball team.
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The Pope’s Half-Truth

| December 4, 2013 | Faith

Last Tuesday, Pope Francis turned heads by denouncing capitalism in his first apostolic exhortation, “Evangelii Gaudium” (starting on page 45): [S]ome people continue to defend trickle-down theories which assume that economic growth, encouraged by a free market, will...
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Tyler Castle
Tyler Castle is the director of AEI's Initiative on Faith & Public Life. He is a graduate of Westmont College and a former John Jay Institute Fellow.

Gridlock or the Nuclear Option: A False Ultimatum

| November 28, 2013 | Politics

As many of you know, the U.S. Senate triggered the so-called “nuclear option” last week, which changes procedural rules by suspending the Senate minority party’s most precious bastion, the filibuster. Now, only a simple majority—rather than 60 votes—is needed to...
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Tyler Castle
Tyler Castle is the director of AEI's Initiative on Faith & Public Life. He is a graduate of Westmont College and a former John Jay Institute Fellow.

Secular Humanism: A Hopeful Farce

| November 15, 2013 | Faith

A quickly growing demographic, atheists and others who deny religious faith are starting to organize. One website, LivingWithoutReligion.org, praises those who have joined the club, citing “an increase of 5% in just 5 years!” In fact, the organization has started to...
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Tyler Castle
Tyler Castle is the director of AEI's Initiative on Faith & Public Life. He is a graduate of Westmont College and a former John Jay Institute Fellow.

The City’s Welfare: Our Vocation in Exile

| November 7, 2013 | Faith

Last weekend, I visited the John Jay Institute where I studied last fall. Somewhat providentially, during a session of Morning Prayer we discovered that the day’s scripture passage was Jeremiah 29: 4-14, which as many of you know reads: This is what the Lord Almighty,...
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Tyler Castle
Tyler Castle is the director of AEI's Initiative on Faith & Public Life. He is a graduate of Westmont College and a former John Jay Institute Fellow.

What C.S. Lewis and Modern Family Understand that Conservatives Don’t

| October 31, 2013 | Politics

I’ve been watching Modern Family quite a bit lately. Not too surprisingly, the show has become extremely popular across broad swaths of the country; college students and my middle-aged parents enjoy it equally. Although I may not share the same worldview of the...
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Tyler Castle
Tyler Castle is the director of AEI's Initiative on Faith & Public Life. He is a graduate of Westmont College and a former John Jay Institute Fellow.