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Could You Loan Some Forgiveness?
We should certainly turn our attention to making the credentials necessary for economic participation affordable. But so many of those losing the prime years of their life to debt and…
Friends and Strangers: A Meditation on Money
I start my meditation with a true story that will serve as a parable. On his 21st birthday, the nature writer Francis Thompson was presented by his father with a…
Democracy as Spectacle: The Messianic Compulsions of our Republic
Americans do not need a Messiah because this nation is not Heaven on Earth.
Aristotle and Aquinas, Bank Regulators
But if there is one thing that both Democrats and Republicans agreed about in the 90's, it was that these “monstrosities” didn't need to be regulated.
Washington, we have a Problem
We have for so long asserted that we are a force for good in the world and that our efforts are in the service of "democracy" that we can no…
Patrimony And Autonomy
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS. I appreciated Professor Deneen's discussion of the problem of free-riding, and I agree that ours is a precarious position, but I would suggest that it is also paradoxically…
