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May 2025

May 10, 2025

What’s in the Encyclical that Inspired Pope Leo’s Name?

I was thrilled to see that Pope Leo XIV is indeed a Rerum Novarum guy, which...

November 2024

November 08, 2024

Should the Catholic Church Be Involved in Politics?

Saw a curious poll on Twitter asking: Should the Catholic Church stay out of politics?...

January 2024

January 03, 2024

The Value of Pre-Made Decisions

Day three of Mag 90, and let me tell you about Costco. My gosh, that...

December 2023

December 27, 2023

Legislative Posturing with the CA Gender Neutral Toy Bill

Take a look at the actual text of California's Assembly Bill 1084, the one about...

August 2023

August 15, 2023

How Much College Tuition is ‘Reasonable’?

Good piece at The Atlantic on the wealth divide in admissions to public universities: "These State...

April 2023

April 23, 2023

Something Deeper than a Boycott

There reaches a point where you lose your patience with being mocked. With the latest...

September 2022

September 30, 2022

NPR Media Disconnect with Real Life, Hurricane Edition

This morning while my kid was driving across town in an approaching hurricane to go...

January 2022

January 13, 2022

Federal Funding and Civil Rights

Quick note on today's SCOTUS decisions on the vaccine mandates . . . The court's...

December 2021

December 01, 2021

So. About Those Right-Wing Extremists.

This morning I gave up on insomnia and watched Eric Zemmour's 10-minute long YouTube announcement...

September 2021

September 17, 2021

The Other Religious Objection to the Vaccine Mandate

Crux reports on a group of Christian healthcare workers fighting New York's COVID vaccine mandate...

September 13, 2021

The Moral Case Against Biden’s Vaccine Mandate

My daughters' friend lost her father to COVID this week. 50-something, father of five children,...

August 2021

August 12, 2021

Bacon Famine 2022?

Those of us who lean conservative have a knee-jerk tendency to ask, "Can anything good...

July 2021

July 29, 2021

Threats vs. Science in Public Health Policy

NPR reports that the Biden administration is about to lay down vaccination requirements for federal...

July 26, 2021

School Choice as a COVID Solution

The stakes are high in return-to-school debates, because no matter what you do, there will be...

October 2020

October 12, 2020

Constitution-Friendly Health Care Reform

I read through Senator Dianne Feinstein's opening remarks on ACB's confirmation hearings hoping to get...

October 02, 2020

Ways “Systemic Racism” Might Happen, Hospital Edition

There are different definitions of what "systemic" can mean, and what it can mean specifically...

August 2020

August 26, 2020

Social Scientists Unclear on How Wage-Earning Works

The Institute for Family Studies is reporting that, after controlling for demographic variables, children from...

July 2020

July 10, 2020

Education vs. Childcare vs. Public Goods

One of the early outcries as COVID-19 raged through nursing homes was, "The way we...

March 2020

March 23, 2020

Flattening the Curve vs. Flattening the Economy

In response to a popular piece on the economic devastation of "flattening the curve" my...

March 10, 2020

I’m No Socialist But . . .

. . . Yasha Mounk at The Atlantic is correct: When the coronavirus first spread to South...

February 2020

February 28, 2020

7QT: Catholic Social Teaching Kicks in During Quarantine, and After

Let's talk about the economics of epidemics. By the time we've hit all seven takes...

September 2019

September 05, 2019

Best Practices in Evangelization = Unintended Lesson in Homelessness

Here's an article on a fantastic initiative in the Archdiocese of Baltimore, in which dedicated...

June 2018

June 18, 2018

What Kind of Crime is Illegal Immigration?

In the present debate over what to do with illegal immigrants and their children, there...

May 2018

May 18, 2018

Economy with an “O” & Other Good Stuff

I haven't read it yet, but with great joy I see that there's something more...

March 2018

March 26, 2018

Usury vs. Contraception: Do Doctrines Die by Difficulty?

Melinda Selmys asks, "Is Contraception the New Usury?" and poses a variation on an old...

March 23, 2018

Facebook is Not Too Big to Fail

Over the past five or six years I've gone from barely using Facebook at all...

January 2018

January 06, 2018

Labor vs. Capital: Should the Poor, or the Rich, Receive Income Without Working?

For those just joining this discussion (as I am): Elizabeth Bruenig at the Washington Post...

September 2017

September 06, 2017

“Price Gouging” and Catholic Social Teaching

Up at the Register, I'm talking about why price gouging is wrong: Catholics don’t reject free market...

June 2017

June 21, 2017

Parsing the Data on “Childhood Gun Violence”

Pediatrics has just released a study on childhood firearms injuries and deaths, and this CNN...

March 2017

March 09, 2017

Conservative Healthcare Reform

In reaction to the proposed Republican repeal of the Affordable Care Act, some have asserted...