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“History bears witness to the human experience that those societies exercising the most freedom experience the greatest relief from poverty. It should come as no surprise that the percentage of the world’s population living in extreme poverty has been reduced by 50 percent over the last quartercentury precisely for this reason.”

—Excerpted from Rev. Robert Sirico’s article in The Philadelphia Inquirer


Samuel Gregg
Title: Capitalism, Conservative and the Intellectuals
Publication: Public Discourse
Date: 10.11.17

Samuel Gregg
Title: Edmund Burke’s Conservative Case for Free Markets
Publication: Burkean Journal
Date: 11.02.17

Rev. Robert Sirico
Title: Despite evidence, myth of the Marxist utopia persists
Publication: The Philadelphia Inquirer
Date: 11.06.17