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April 27, 2012

Investment and the Common Good

by Christopher Blum

It is now twenty years since the publication of Centesimus Annus, yet only halting steps have been made towards an adequate reception of it. In his concluding remarks to that great encyclical, the Holy Father warned that the Church’s social…

April 27, 2012

Subsidy or Subsidiarity

by Gerald J. Russello

Individualism and community are the opposite halves of the American character. For every myth of the self-made man, there is the image of the closely knit New England small town. For every lone cowboy on the frontier, there are the…

March 13, 2012

The Age of the Laity…or the Latte?

by William Fahey

So what will it be? A grande Latte… or Western Civilization? A scone with that… or the meat of doctrine? An extra shot of espresso… or the survival of families? A Moccachino… or the Mystical Body of Christ? Today, the…

February 21, 2012

Beating the Competition

by Carolyn Moynihan

Business leaders are blaming the education system for the loss of jobs offshore. But aren’t they forgetting that other institution that turns out good workers?

February 9, 2012

Economics: The Cheerful Science

by Mark W. Hendrickson

Chances are, you’ve heard economics referred to as “the dismal science.” That unflattering description is glib and catchy; it is also 100 percent wrong. Let me set the record straight and explain why economics—far from being dismal—is cause for hope,…

February 9, 2012

The Population Bomb, Still Fizzling

by Marcus Roberts

A new report was released on Monday by the UN’s high level panel on global sustainability. Unsurprising its conclusion is that the world’s current economic , environmental and demographic trajectory is wildly unsustainable. According to the UN estimates, as reported…

February 2, 2012

The Romney Tax Rate Scandal

by Mark W. Hendrickson

When Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney casually estimated that his effective tax rate is around 15 percent, progressives immediately pounced on the issue. To this ideological minority with its Ahab-like obsession on class warfare, a rich American paying an effective…

January 31, 2012

A Setback for the Secularists?

by James S. Cole

Earlier this month, the US Supreme Court decided a case filed by the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and a teacher against a church-operated grade school in Michigan. Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, No….

January 30, 2012

Slouching Toward Disneyworld

by Sheila Gribben Liaugminas

I remember writing in 2008 that the race was consistent only in its unpredictability. That’s the only resemblance this presidential race holds to the last. There is no comfort in any political camp right now. They each feel equally emboldened…

January 20, 2012

The Apple Argument Against Abortion

by Peter Kreeft

This essay first appeared in the December 2000 issue of Crisis Magazine. I doubt there are many readers of this magazine who are pro-choice. Why, then, do I write an argument against abortion for its readers? Why preach to…

January 18, 2012

Inequality, Eugenics, and Envy

by Thomas Sowell

With all the talk about “disparities” in innumerable contexts, there is one very important disparity that gets remarkably little attention — disparities in the ability to create wealth. People who are preoccupied, or even obsessed, with disparities in income are…

January 17, 2012

2012: The Year of the Entrepreneur?

by Craig Columbus

This is the time of year when 2012 prediction lists abound. I am struck by how many lists have included some reference to a surge in American entrepreneurship during the next year. Entrepreneurs are clearly being counted upon to act…

January 16, 2012

Readying Romney for the Class-Warfare Machine

If Mitt Romney gets the GOP nomination, prepare for a season of class warfare in America unlike any before. Not only has President Obama been pushing class warfare unceasingly for three years now, but his chief strategist, David Axelrod, has…

January 11, 2012

In Defense of Christopher Dawson

by Gerald J. Russello

I would like to present a qualified defense of Christopher Dawson and his essay, “Catholicism and the Bourgeois Mind.” Jeffrey Tucker, John Zmirak and Fr. John Peter Pham each mount a strong defense of the bourgeois and the world they…

January 6, 2012

Religious Liberty: No Exceptions!

by Patrick J. Reilly

For months, the Catholic bishops and major Evangelical and Jewish groups have urged Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to exempt conscientious objectors from mandatory health insurance coverage for sterilization and contraception, including abortifacients. The current regulations exempt churches…

January 5, 2012

Partial-Birth: The Sequel

by Sen. Rick Santorum

The following column first appeared in the March 1997 edition of Crisis Magazine. President Clinton’s veto of the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act last April cracked open the facade of principle and consensus that our national leadership had presented to…

December 29, 2011

What Happened to Us in 2011?

by Alfred A. Lagan

Few will mourn the passing of 2011 into the financial history books. From an apparent economic recovery at year end 2010 and high optimism in the financial markets, a succession of natural disasters, economic disappointments, and government failures led to…

December 28, 2011

The Virtuous Bourgeois

by Rev. John Peter Pham

This book review first appeared in the June 1999 edition of Crisis Magazine. It continues yesterday’s symposium on the “bourgeois spirit.” See also Christopher Dawson’s essay, Catholicism and the Bourgeois Mind, Jeffrey Tucker’s reply, In Defense of Bourgeois Civilization, Gerard…

December 21, 2011

China’s “Superior” Economic Model?

by Mark W. Hendrickson

In a recent piece for The Wall Street Journal, Andy Stern, an Obama insider and one of organized labor’s more aggressive personalities, praised what he called “China’s superior economic model.” Does China have a superior economic model? That depends: Superior…

December 16, 2011

Render Unto Caesar

This essay first appeared at Insidecatholic.com (now Crisis) August 26, 2008. It is part of today’s symposium of lay Catholic opinion on immigration. For other contributions see this piece by Mark and Louise Zwick, this one by Christopher Manion, and…

December 14, 2011

The Rich Are Getting Richer; So Are the Poor

by Jarrett Skorup

“No matter your thoughts about the Occupy Wall Street movement, the protesters were right in at least one respect: The rich are getting richer, and the poor are getting poorer.” Variations on this statement were repeated in dozens of…

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