“Social justice.” Who in America today isn’t aware of how controversial that term is? It’s at the center of a movement that is turning this country upside down. Call it the “Woke” movement, or “Woke Progressivism,” or “Cultural Marxism” with its “Critical Race Theory,” “Critical Gender Theory,” or just plain old “Critical Theory”—by whatever name, it’s tearing apart families, churches, and the nation as people line up on opposite sides of a very basic question: What does it mean to do … [Read more...]
The Formula for a Richer World? Equality, Liberty, Justice
Guest column by Dierdre N. McCloskey [Editor's note: Dierdre McCloskey is one of the world's foremost economic historians, whose many books have provided extraordinary insights into how societies rise from poverty to prosperity and remain prosperous. We are grateful for Dr. McCloskey's permission to reprint this article, which first appeared in the New York Times and then was republished on the website of the American Institute for Economic Research.---E.C.B.] The world is rich and will … [Read more...]
A Sad Tale of a Wealthy Millennial’s Moral Confusion
This article was originally published in the American Spectator where it remained in the top 5 articles read multiple days in a row. A few years back my wife heard a young woman share that she had felt guilty for being able to go out to dinner with friends in Chicago because she knew her mother, in South Africa, was struggling to scrape together her own supper. When she had told her mother this during a phone call, her mother had rebuked her. “How dare you spit in God’s … [Read more...]
