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In defense of the minimal
To properly appreciate government, we must recognize its inherent limits.'Alternatives to Global Capitalism' is really no alternative at all
It is a fact that certain ideas die hard, suffering a long senescence before passing forever into “the ash heap of history.” And no set of ideas seems to be suffering a longer decline than the idea that “Christianity is the religion of which socialism is the practice.”The EPA preaches the Green Gospel
The real danger of the Bush administration's faith-based initiative lies not in some fictitious breach in “the wall between church and state” but in the use of taxpayer dollars to fund secular environmental ideology dressed up in “faith-based” clothing.The blessings and challenges of faith-based management
An Interview with the Acton Institute’s director of administration and finance, Robert W. Simpson, Ph.D.Kenya: Hope and reality in the life of a nation
A little more than a week ago, 12 Kenyan religious leaders representing six denominations met with an American Catholic priest, an American Reformed minister, an Australian intellectual, and a Washington, D.C.-based policy analyst in Putten, Netherlands, to discuss the political and economic realities currently facing the nation of Kenya.Breathing life (and funds) into civil society
Society's problems require more than a generic, “morally neutral” program to meet their needs.Laboratories of Educational Choice: The D.C. Experiment
In the divinely ordained institution of the family, parents are given responsibility for the upbringing of children. The experience of the Washington Scholarship Fund (WSF) is a case study in the exercise of this parental responsibility (and the opposition it sometimes evokes).Effective childcare – The welfare reform dividend
Childcare funding has increased a whopping 409 percent from $2.2 billion in 1992 to $11 billion 2002. Two-thirds of this spending, however, did not come from new congressional appropriations, but from the dividend derived from welfare reform.Health care reform: Government subsidy or restoring subsidiarity?
Often absent from many of the policy debates in Washington is a reference to the first principles that animate, or should animate, the discussions surrounding important issues. Will the attitude of government subsidy or the restoration of communal subsidiarity ultimately form the foundation of this debate?Lawsuit reform...A class (in)act(ion)
Modern lawsuits violate the Old Testament's injunction to show no partiality to rich or poor.Energy abundance: Bane or boon to human health?
When I had a heart attack, the staff of the hospital – hospitals are real energy guzzlers – used yards of plastic tubing, wire, oxygen and costly electronics to save my life.Pro-growth agenda vs. class warfare politics
In fine Washington style, the announcement of President Bush’s economic growth plan has sparked another round of inside the beltway class warfare. Typically, the anti-growth crowd has issued the now stale cry that this plan “benefits the wealthy”, while leaving little for low- and middle-income Americans. Such a clarion call greatly misunderstands economic reality.