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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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Politics: A Poor Fit for the God-Shaped Hole in Our Hearts

| February 19, 2014 | Politics

“Ours is an anxious age,” says writer and commentator Joseph Bottum. As a resident of our nation’s capital—where I have the pleasure of being witness to constant ideological mud-slinging, I can’t help but agree. Bottum is the author of “An Anxious Age: 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.

A War on Income Inequality Is a Bad Idea

| January 8, 2014 | Society

Today marks the 50th anniversary of Lyndon B. Johnson’s 1964 State of the Union address, in which he declared his famous “War on Poverty.” Fifty years later, President Obama has effectively declared a similar war on income inequality, which he believes “is 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.

Why Care About Happiness?

| January 1, 2014 | Faith

In case you haven’t heard, AEI president Arthur Brooks has been talking about happiness. Who is happy? What brings us happiness? Which guideposts provide the surest path to happiness? His whole talk is well worth watching: But before we ask these questions, we should...
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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.

Homeless Man Takes Stand Against the Minimum Wage

| December 23, 2013 | Economics

While President Obama, fast food workers, and a majority of Americans insist on raising the minimum wage, a homeless man from Washington, D.C. disagrees. Jeffery Mcneil is a writer and vendor for Street Sense (a Washington-area, non-profit newspaper that provides...
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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 Wire” Creator’s Misguided Call for Socialism

| December 17, 2013 | Society

David Simon knows his city. Most intimately, he knows its wounds, its brokenness, its painful groans. Simon is the creator of the highly lauded television sitcom “The Wire”—a gritty, true-to-life look into the criminal underground and justice system of a city that...
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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.