By Nayeli Riano on Aug 31, 2019 09:00 pm
John Courtney Murray’s “We Hold These Truths” is hardly a tumbleweed of early-twentieth-century Catholic social thought. Though it initially helped to reconcile Catholicism and the religious pluralism that our nation champions, it is also a work that deals deeply with that taboo concept of today: patriotism. Reading John Courtney Murray’s famous work, We Hold ...
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The newsletter’s work is built on the argument that work is primarily an expression of core aspects of human sociability. In other words, employment is one of the ways — and an important one — that we relate to each other, and it is on the basis of these relationships that what we call “society and economy” come into being. In his “Theory of Moral Sentiments,” Adam Smith, the father of capitalism, was the first to articulate the connection between early socialization and readiness for market participation. (I wrote at length on this topic a few months ago, and you can read those reflections here.)
By Eva Brann on Sep 09, 2019 09:58 pm
Modernity is best apprehended as being in a ruptured continuum with Greek antiquity—a continuum insofar as the terms persist, ruptured insofar as they take on new meanings and missions. That perspective makes those who hold it avid participants in the present. Jacob Klein was in the last year of his nine-year tenure as dean ...
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by Lee J. Strang
Originalism provides the surest way to access the Constitution's legal meaning and then to implement it over time. Read More »