By Strict Empirical Tests, Democratic Capitalism is the Best Hope for Economic Growth with Human Rights History, as we have all learned in school, is about “important events.” Upon closer scrutiny, these events, most of them bloody and senseless, were undertaken by very few individuals. Even fewer individuals wrote about these events, interpreted them, preserved … Read more
Paper presented at the conference of the National Center for Neighborhood Enterprise, July 28, 1983. Â The topic of the welfare state is rather dismal, and not only in right-of-center circles. In American English the phrase has attained a particularly pejorative connotation, because “welfare” has come to mean the dole, handing out public money to people, … Read more
A non-Catholic sees the Bernadin Committee increasing the danger it seeks to lessen. In November 1982 the National Conference of Catholic Bishops received and discussed the report of its Ad Hoc Committee on War and Peace, which had worked for over one year under the chairmanship of Archbishop Bernadin of Chicago. The Conference is to … Read more