How You Can Support Religious Minorities in Iraq from Your Desk
As freedom and quality of life deteriorate for many in Iraq, let us not view their plight as simply a learning opportunity. Instead, here is a brief guide on how you and I can begin to care for persecuted minorities from our homes and offices across the Atlantic.
Is Liberty Negative or Positive?
If we are to truly understand our political opponents and make progress in contemporary debates, we need to understand and appreciate the different visions of freedom that undergird and inform so many of the policies we advocate.
CEOs & Fair Wage to Workers: A Christian Perspective, Part II
How should Christian CEOs value their workers? I’ll give you the answer up front: We simply aren’t in a position to know exactly how any given (Christian) CEO should value his or her employees.
Religious Minorities on the Edge of Extinction
Over at Arc of the Universe, Villanova Professor Daniel Mark discusses a recent AEI event that he participated in, writing bluntly on the “precariousness of freedom and human rights.”
Friday Five: Does Income Inequality Increase Innovation?
This week’s round-up includes an explanation for why capitalism has reduced the number of wars, a qualified defense of income inequality, and more.
What Actually Happens When You Raise the Minimum Wage
Contrary to popular belief, raising the minimum wage won’t make everyone richer, but it will make a great deal of poor people poorer—or more accurately, out of work.
How Does Place Impact Opportunity?
Earlier this week, the Brookings Institution hosted a new, major voice in the conversation on welfare and neighborhoods: Raj Chetty, professor of economics at Harvard University. Chetty’s most recent work studies the relationship between geography and intergenerational income mobility.
How to Be Persuasive: The Scarcity Principle
The last principle for being persuasive is Scarcity, which says that things are more attractive when their availability is limited.
CEOs & Fair Wage to Workers: A Christian Perspective, Part I
Dan Price, the CEO of Gravity Payments, made recent headlines by slashing his own annual income from $1,000,000 to $70,000. In doing so, and in cutting from some of the company’s profits, Price has raised the minimum salary of his employees to $70,000.