The Unravelling of The American Employment Compact
In 1888, George Eastman marketed the Kodak camera with the memorable advertising promise: “You press the button, we do the rest.” Photography, a complicated task requiring considerable technical...
View ArticleAdam Smith and the Value of Connectivity
This year marks the 250th anniversary not only of the United States but also of Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations. The book was first published on March 9, 1776, three months before the Declaration of...
View ArticleThe Origins and Consequences of Big Tech’s “Tobacco Moment”
The constitutional debate over social media bans seems to be moving away from regulating speech and content toward scrutinizing product designs and their resulting harms. Once bans are viewed through...
View ArticleEntrepreneurship, Prosperity, and Living Contra Mundum: A Q&A with Robert L....
In this month’s Q&A, managing editor Alexandra Davis interviews business leader and school founder Robert Luddy about his new book, Seeking Wisdom: The Road to Prosperity. Alexandra Davis: Thank...
View ArticleRethinking the Tariffs Regime
We are witnessing the death of economic principles as we make a weapon out of trade. “Pragmatists”—or perhaps “indifferentists”—with a conservative veneer embrace or ignore principles as needed in the...
View ArticleFrom Anchor to Anvil: America’s Drift Away from the System It Built
Last August, my wife and I visited the Mount Washington Hotel in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire. While the landscape is stunning, what truly drew us there—since we are both economists—was the desire to...
View ArticleFarmers’ Protests: Solidarity, Romanticism, and Populism
Last month, thousands of farmers descended on central London to protest the new Labour government’s inheritance tax change. Previously, farms had been exempt from the tax, meaning that land could be...
View ArticleA Family-Focused Approach to Consumption
“I, Pencil, simple though I appear to be, merit your wonder and awe, a claim I shall attempt to prove.” Thus begins a classic work in economics by which generations of students have been introduced to...
View ArticleThe Social Injustice of Social Security
In the United States, Social Security’s old-age insurance program is nearing a fiscal tipping point. Policymakers should take the opportunity to craft a system that pursues justice rather than...
View ArticleThe Right and Future of Capitalism: Part 2
Editors’ Note: This essay is adapted from a James Madison Program event on April 10, 2024, in Princeton, New Jersey. Oren Cass and Samuel Gregg discussed the right and the future of capitalism in the...
View ArticleThe Right and the Future of Capitalism: Part 1
Editors’ Note: This essay is adapted from a James Madison Program event on April 10, 2024, in Princeton, New Jersey. Oren Cass and Samuel Gregg discussed the right and the future of capitalism in the...
View ArticleThe Conservative Case for Remote Work
What was until recently a niche question for a few special employees or particularly cutting-edge companies is now, in a post-COVID world, fair game for the white-collar professional class: Should...
View ArticleThe Place of Economics in a Classical Education
The world of K–12 education is currently experiencing a renaissance. School choice programs are spreading like wildfire, especially after parents were afforded an unusual glimpse into their children’s...
View ArticleTaxes Have Consequences: An Interview with Arthur B. Laffer and Brian Domitrovic
In this month’s interview, contributing editor Kelly Hanlon, along with Gustavo Alcantar, interviews economists Arthur B. Laffer and Brian Domitrovic about their book, Taxes Have Consequences: An...
View ArticleEmpowering People through a Renewed Sense of Place
Two centuries and a year after the American founding, sociologist Peter Berger and (at the time) prominent Lutheran minister Richard John Neuhaus published a pamphlet, aimed at restoring the American...
View ArticleThe War on Poverty at Fifty: How to Craft Policy to Help America’s Poor
This week, we are celebrating fifteen years of Public Discourse. Our contributing editors have selected their favorite essays from each of our five pillars and each day this week, we have reshared one....
View ArticleIn a Fallen World, Scarcity Is a Gift
Genesis 3:22: And the Lord God said, “The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live...
View Article“Housing First” Policy Is Not Helping the Homeless
The United States has been combating homelessness for many years. Billions have been invested to help the unhoused find reliable shelter, but the catastrophe has only gotten worse. Indeed, in the last...
View ArticleGraduate Student Unions and Catholic Social Thought
The past few years have seen a noticeable growth in union organizing drives, particularly among workers with insecure and often short-term employment, such as fast-food workers, coffee shop “baristas,”...
View ArticleBetter Housing Would Make Families Happier
This essay is the second in a three-part symposium on housing and family. Read the first here. Conservatives have big dreams for the family. Some conservatives are calling for a return to...
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