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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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Adoption: Evangelical Enthusiasm Gone Wrong?

| October 25, 2013 | Society

We’ve been talking quite a bit about the family recently, but surprisingly adoption hasn’t come up. The one place that I have seen it discussed was in a rather critical New York Times opinion article entitled “The Evangelical Orphan Boom.” Kathryn Joyce writes:...
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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.

America’s Leadership Deficit

| October 18, 2013 | Politics

It’s finally over. After weeks of drama, late nights on Capitol Hill and an oversized helping of unproductive finger-pointing, our federal government achieved about as much as we should have expected: nothing. Add it to the list of policy debates our leaders in...
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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 Onion’s Critique of the Affordable Care Act

| October 10, 2013 | Politics

It probably needs no introduction; The Onion is a satirical news site that dubs itself “America’s Finest News Source.” Honestly, I’m beginning to believe them. Often, The Onion’s writers will mask in irreverence an intelligent critique of a prominent issue in America....
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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.

Broken Families, Broken Economy

| October 1, 2013 | Society

“The process of making human beings human is breaking down in America,” says social scientist James Coleman. That’s stark language—but for good reason. Massive changes in U.S. family structure over the last 50 years may be America’s biggest problem—and...
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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.