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Building a Society Where Freedom and Opportunity Flourish
R&L: The philosophical roots of American conservatism run deep. For example, one major influence has been the classical liberal thought of the nineteenth century. How do you understand the relationship between conservatism and classical liberalism, especially their similarities and differences?The Morality of Intellectual Property Rights
R&L: What significance do intellectual property rights have within a free market economy and what importance did the Founding Fathers place on intellectual property rights in the American economy?Free Market Requires Legal, Moral, and Religious Foundations
R&L: You have spent a large portion of your professional life in the business world. How has your faith informed how you approach your vocation?Judaism's Religious Vision and the Capitalist Ethic
R&L: Historically, what has been the influence of Judaism on the development of capitalism?Religion, Economics, and the Market Paradox
R&L: In your latest book, you compare economics to religion. Why? Nelson: Because economics is a belief system with powerful moral implications. I use the term religion in a broad sense, as something that provides a framework for one's values or some purpose to one's life. I am convinced that people must have some sort of religion, that no one can live entirely free from a framework of meaning. Of course, not all religions require a God, as Judaism or Christianity do.A Powerful Consequence: An Interview with Francisco Flores
What a change El Salvador has gone through. What a challenge. How do individuals deal with that challenge, especially with regard to their faith?A Tsunami Every Day: An Interview with Tony Hall
How has your faith shaped your political priorities, especially with regard to the fight against hunger?The Economy of trust
What can the world of religion and ethics contribute to economics?Second-Career clergy and parish business
Photo: Getty Images The seminary in The Collar is what's called a second-career seminary, a seminary for men who have come to their vocation later in life. Some of the seminarians featured in the work, like the retired marketing executive Jim Pemberton, come from significant careers in the business world. What are these men looking for in the priesthood, and do they make good priests?Exporting hope
Growing up in Estonia, when was the first moment that you realized there was something wrong with the Soviet system?America's challenge
Chuck Colson What intellectual tools do Christians need to effectively protect the truth in a post-Christian world, and do Christians have those tools?A Century of Catholic Social Thought
This year marks the centenary of the promulgation of Leo XIII’s encyclical Rerum Novarum. Over the next several months there will be a myriad of scholarly conferences, lectures, sermons, masses, etc., commemorating the anniversary of this seminal Church document and the tradition of social thought that it inaugurated. Collections of essays celebrating this anniversary are already beginning to find their way out of publishing houses and into stores and catalogs.