Unless we can agree on the unexceptionable tenets of respect for other human beings and law and order, the common pursuit of other aims can never even start. We must all choose, right now, and stick to our choice no ...
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About Kevin Schmiesing
Kevin Schmiesing is director of research at the Freedom and Virtue Institute and a research associate at the Veritas Center for Ethics in Public Life. He has published many books and articles in the fields of Christian social thought and religious and economic history and has served as executive editor of the Journal of Markets & Morality and the Catholic Social Science Review. He talks about Church history as a regular guest on the EWTN global Catholic radio network. He is a native of Ohio, where he currently resides with his wife and children.
America’s institutions are flawed but not without value. The story of the American military should not be reduced to imperialism and destruction. The entire American Left should not be tarred with the brush of Communism. Protestant Christianity is not all ...
Read MoreConsider a community with a large number of homeless people. The problem is obvious, and all decent residents notice and want to address it. Each individual resident also recognizes that the scale of the problem is beyond his or her ...
Read MoreRecent crises have reignited discussion and debate about America’s urban cultures. The coronavirus pandemic, it’s been widely observed, hit cities much harder than rural or suburban areas. Rioting and protests have bogged down, closed down, defaced, or even destroyed parts ...
Read MoreSimilarly, ownership of a business is not merely a source of income for an entrepreneur. It is an expression and testament to his or her creativity, dedication, and vocation. It provides meaning to the individual and serves the common good ...
Read MorePatrick Fagan of the Marriage and Religion Research Institute has been collecting and interpreting data on religion’s sociological impact since the 1980s. He has consistently found overwhelming evidence for religion’s positive effect, primarily because “the strength of the family unit ...
Read MoreReparations argue that racist structures have nonetheless benefited these whites, but again, it’s hard to justify lumping these groups together with white families whose wealth is inherited from slave plantations.
Read MoreThe economic pain imposed by the pandemic has highlighted this fact. The employment crisis came suddenly: In two months the US went from a booming economy with millions of unfilled jobs to an economic death spiral with millions of Americans ...
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