Dr Angela Kane, former UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs; Professor Paolo Cotta-Ramusino, Secretary General of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs; Dr Gro Harlem Brundtland, former Prime Minister of Norway; Mr Ingvar Carlsson, former Prime Minister of …
A United Nations Emergency Peace Service (UNEPS) is long overdue
If we are ever to begin the shift from competitive national security models to sustainable peace and common security, then we must focus on enhancing the UN’s capacity for conflict prevention and peaceful conflict resolution. One mechanism that could make …
A foreign policy that practices what it preaches: Part One
September is upon us and with it is the certainty of a fall federal election, albeit with the start date still unannounced. So it is appropriate that we begin our reflections on the foreign policy record of the Justin Trudeau …
Abba Moses on the Christian vocation
Today in the Orthodox Church we commemorate St. Moses the Ethiopian, also simply known as St. Moses the Black. His life and teachings have enriched the Christian spiritual tradition for more than 1,600 years, and he has something to teach …
Ignoring the invisible
I have been thinking a lot about all of the invisible things around us, important foundational things that we take for granted, but because they don’t immediately manifest themselves to our attention we can forget about them if we are …
Michael Novak and the ‘crisis of capitalism’
Jordan Ballor recently brought to my attention this remarkable passage from Michael Novak’s The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism, “Our moral and cultural traditions have not kept pace with our economic possibilities. Continue Reading… Related posts: Samuel Gregg on the legacy …
PowerLinks 08.29.19
War for Poverty Bryan Caplan, EconLib When a country is mired in poverty, violent revolution is the most emotionally appealing remedy. Economic Nationalism Is a Philosophy of War Ludwig von Mises, Mises Wire It is certainly true that our age …
The magic of the washing machine
What was the greatest invention of the industrial revolution? The late great Hans Rosling makes the case for the washing machine. Rosling explains how the productivity gains of the washing machine (and similar labor-saving devices) lead to increases in education …
PowerLinks 08.28.19
Bishops welcome proposed rule to protect rights of religious employers Catholic News Service The chairmen of three U.S. bishops’ committees Aug. 21 welcomed a proposed rule from the U.S. Department of Labor aimed at clarifying religious protections that may be …
The reason America’s poor are richer than most Europeans
The U.S. has diverged from the OECD approach to economic and energy issues that critics called this weekend’s G7 Summit the “G6-plus-one.” However, a new study shows America’s less regulated, less regimented economy has generated such abundance that the poorest …
Missionary malpractice in Uganda? A reflection on ‘good intentions’
In the routine stories of humanitarian activism gone wrong, we find ready reminders of the limits of good intentions. In each case—whether among governments or non-profits and religious institutions—we see how a heartfelt motivation to “do good” can easily serve …
A “one-stop shop” for natural law theory
Over at the University Bookman, W. Bradford Littlejohn reviews Niels Hemmingsen’s On the Law of Nature: A Demonstrative Method, recently published by CLP Academic. Littlejohn describes this surprising sixteenth century treatise as “a concise one-stop shop summary of Aristotelian-Thomistic epistemology, …
