Toward Reality-Based Conservatism
by R. R. RenoPreserving the achievements of our increasingly global system of democratic capitalism requires us to take a long, hard look at its defects. Continue Reading »
The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism
by R. R. RenoThe recent passing of Michael Novak prompted me to take up his masterpiece once again. I first read The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism in the 1980s. At the time, I had no illusions about socialism. It was obviously a failure, economically, politically, and morally. But like so many of my . . . . Continue Reading »
The Papal View from the Global South
by Paul SeatonAccording to Francis, the world is divided into haves and have-nots, and the impoverished circumstances and dismal prospects of the latter are principally caused by the former. Continue Reading »
In Memoriam Michael Novak
by R. R. RenoOur public life is the better for his many decades of analysis, commentary, and spirited partisanship on behalf of higher religious, moral, and political truths. Continue Reading »
China Rising
by Wesley J. SmithChina’s unexpected economic vibrancy almost masks its authoritarianism—but after a few days, the authoritarianism is plain to see. Continue Reading »
Letters
by VariousWages of Sin The controversy surrounding capitalism was well represented by David Bentley Hart (“Mammon Ascendant”) and Francesca Aran Murphy (“Is Liberalism a Heresy?”) in your June/July issue. Both their essays were immensely interesting, but it is Hart’s missteps in describing . . . . Continue Reading »
Mammon Ascendant
by David Bentley HartSo, there I was, pondering, with an old familiar feeling of perplexity (about which more anon), certain reactions to my reaction to various reactions to the pope’s last encyclical, when it occurred to me that the one thing on which Hegelians of every stripe—right or left, theological or . . . . Continue Reading »
Letters
by Variousno disciplineI am writing to express my shock and disappointment at the profanity in the article “Freedom Within the Disciplines” (June/July). The word “bullshit” appears multiple times. I have encountered this word and its ilk in the New Yorker, Fast Company, and The Economist, but I . . . . Continue Reading »
The Future of Democratic Capitalism
by Michael NovakIn the eighteenth century, a host of thinkers began to use the compound term “political economy” to refer to the traditional subject matter of politics. Both parts are needed to express the complex social system necessary to human liberty and flourishing. For human liberty and human flourishing . . . . Continue Reading »
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