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Chris Horst | December 5, 2013 | Poverty

This article was originally posted at Smorgasblurb. I still don’t know why I answered my phone. I didn’t recognize the number, but took the risk and put my clunky Blackberry to my ear. Matthew introduced himself. He had recently sold his law firm and was smitten with...

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Chris Horst is the Director of Development for HOPE International.

Servile Work and the Kingdom of God

polymath | December 5, 2013 | Faith

Financial Times writer Simon Kuper had a keen insight recently on the emotional effect of the economic disruption that has taken place over the last decade: That’s been the middle-class experience for ever: people have a professional identity. We are what we do. We...

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The Pope’s Half-Truth

Tyler Castle | 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...

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.

How the Fed Has Made Unemployment a Good Thing

Nicholas Freiling | December 3, 2013 | Economics

Imagine a world where unemployment is good—where fewer people working means more prosperity. Both time and resources would be infinitely abundant. Consumer goods would invent themselves. The standard of living would improve most swiftly when human beings stay out of...

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Nick Freiling is Founder/Director of Haven Insights, a DC-based market research firm.

The Damage of Regulation in the Healthcare Industry: Nothing New

Jessica Rabe | December 2, 2013 | Politics

The Affordable Care Act has been the focus of the media’s attention for months. As the website fails, premiums skyrocket, and millions lose their health insurance plans and doctors, a once polarizing bill has congregated Democrats and Republicans as they question the...

Jessica Rabe

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

Placing Blame Where Blame Is Due

Nicholas Freiling | November 29, 2013 | Society

In his book “Life at the Bottom,” Dr. Theodore Dalrymple describes the common behaviors that he observes in many of his lower-class patients. Among the most apparent of these is an attitude of “dishonest fatalism”—a consistent unwillingness to accept blame. “The knife...

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Nick Freiling is Founder/Director of Haven Insights, a DC-based market research firm.

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