The conflation of narrative with ideology triggered by an actual event can be explosive, and is not useful in leading us to greater understanding. Take for example the protests going on after the awful Minneapolis
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As the financial capital markets gradually recover from their pandemic-induced weakness, equal attention should be focused on the recovery of another kind of capital. Social capital—the capacity of people to cooperate toward common ends—has long
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Last week I wrote about the importance of social capital—the capacity to cooperate toward common goals. One of the reasons that social capital is so critical is that the functions it serves cannot easily be replaced.
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We hear much about justice these days, but the concept is seldom defined by those crying for it. As theoretician Anthony de Jasay tells us in his great book Justice and Its Surroundings, "It is one of the
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As the Ronald Reagan-era diplomat Jeanne Kirkpatrick once quipped, “Americans need to face the truth about themselves, no matter how pleasant it is.” It seems that the time is ripe for another dose of Kirkpatrick’s
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As our country is engulfed in the flames of discord, our task is more than merely reporting on events, calling for an end to racism, or making emotional appeals to unity. We go wrong when
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There is a monumental fault line dividing people in America (and many other places). The two sides aren’t black and white, Christian and atheist, or liberal and conservative. They are barbarism and civilization. For ancient
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You might remember South Sudan being in the news in the early 2000s, when the long-running civil war in Sudan was resolved by splitting the African nation in two. The region’s troubles have not disappeared.
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"For the sons of this world are shrewder in dealing with their own generation than the sons of the light." --Luke 16:8 The Civil Rights Movement grew out of a profound spiritual conviction that the
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