The Hopeful Roots of a Movement
"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...
Keep it Personal
“Buy Local” is a mantra familiar to most contemporary consumers. There may be various motivations for the practice: to support a neighborhood economy; to minimize environmental impact; or to enjoy the benefits...
Activism or Activity: Up to Us
It might be true that some people use crime in the black community as a way to deflect from the problem of police misconduct. However, that is not the case overall, and...
Poverty & Freedom: Case Studies on Global Economic Development
The traditional approach to solving poverty has failed.What can we do instead? As experts try to work out how to solve the problem of foreign aid inefficacy, local think tanks committed to...
Black Lives Matter: The Proposition, The Organization, and The Movement
When examining issues surrounding the Black Lives Movement (BLM), there are three areas of interest if we are to understand and respond to it. These are the proposition, the organization, and the...
Repairing the Damage
In a recent essay at Law & Liberty, Harvard historian James Hankins proposes a different kind of reparations for African-Americans: reallocating federal higher education funds to vouchers for K-12 schools. This, he argues, will...
American Creed
Symbols, Rituals and the American Creed Originally published by Anna M. from Emerald Coast National Writing Project in Florida The American Creed, written by William Tyler Page, is an important statement that introduces many themes that Americans...
We Need Prudence
“The dirty little secret of expertise—and of the modern era—is that we expect expertise to rescue us from our disagreements about the good life. We hope that an expanding economic pie (made...
“No Justice, No Peace”?
Admonitions on how to bring about peace in the world are not new. As early as 385AD, the Roman military expert Vegetius in his influential military treatise wrote, “Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet...