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Friday Five: A Biblical Answer to Poverty

Faith and Public Life | April 25, 2014 | Poverty

Friday Five: A Biblical Answer to Poverty

On Friday’s we bring you the week’s best from around the web. This week’s round-up includes a new book that describes a biblical answer to poverty, a video series that takes a look at the big questions, and more. 1. IFWE Launches a New Book on Poverty: Join us at AEI...

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The Pearl of Great Price

Josh Good | March 13, 2014 | Society

The Pearl of Great Price

Platform is an intriguing title for the student-made video that took silver in iNRB’s 36-hour student video competition, sponsored by V&C two weeks ago in Nashville. Its creators surely deserve extra credit for reading not only American Exceptionalism but also...

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Josh Good is director of EPPC’s Faith Angle Forum, which helps mainstream reporters to better understand religion.

“The Wire” Creator’s Misguided Call for Socialism

Tyler Castle | 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 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.

Understanding the Plight of the Poor: Why Strong Families are Essential to Liberty

Joy Pullmann | November 26, 2013 | Society

Mitch Pearlstein, president of the Minnesota-based Center of the American Experiment, asks an interesting question: “How well do you think Americans in the main understand and empathize with low-income Americans?” He follows up with related questions, such as, “Do you...

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Joy Pullmann is executive editor of The Federalist.

Are Suburbanites Bigots?

polymath | October 21, 2013 | Society

The Wall Street Journal picked up on the conclusions of a new study on geographic mobility last week: The share of American families living in either poor or affluent neighborhoods has doubled over the last four decades from 15% to 33%, according to an analysis of...

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