I wrote this up as a column at WORLD I have enormous respect for Roman Catholic Social Teaching but I have some disagreements, too wng.org/opinions/gaini…

Exceptional deal on this sound case for religious freedom: amazon.com/dp/0802881904/…

Most things are easy...when someone has shown you how. youtu.be/Y8jx1Z-Ggu4

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After All Those DOGE Cuts, Federal Spending Still Increased by $300 Billion reason.com/2025/10/10/aft… via reason

FLASHBACK: Is DOGE a dodge? wng.org/opinions/is-do…

Next month, hosted by UChicago Fed Soc and The Center for Religion, Culture, and Democracy as well as James Wilson Institute: "Is the Supreme Court Legitimate?" A conversation featuring Professors Gerard Bradley, Andrew Koppelman, and Richard Epstein, moderated by Adam MacLeod, on Thursday, November 20 (4:00 pm) First Liberty Institute

“The world is like a drunken peasant. If you lift him into the saddle on one side, he will fall off on the other side. One can’t help him, no matter how one tries. He wants to be the devil’s.” --Martin Luther

1/2 Jordan J. Ballor serves as executive director of the The Center for Religion, Culture, and Democracy. He is also a Freedom Conservatism signatory. A senior research fellow at the Henry Institute for the Study of Christianity and Politics at Calvin University, Ballor previously held research positions at the Acton Institute

How can you tell the difference between a child and a chair? And how should the law treat them differently? Join us for this webinar by Adam MacLeod, co-hosted by The Center for Religion, Culture, and Democracy & James Wilson Institute on Monday, 10/20 (2pm Eastern): jameswilsoninstitute.org/events/childre… First Liberty Institute

"...religious freedom means religious freedom for all, and that it is a foundational human right that every person, precisely because he or she is a person, enjoys and that our laws and our Constitution do well in recognizing." scotusblog.com/2025/10/the-wr…

How does your thinking about work frame your day to day life & mission? Consider this very practical question with us in an essay on J. Daryl Charles’ Our Secular Vocation Rethinking the Church’s Calling to the Marketplace. crcd.net/essay-our-secu…

Great conversation here between The Center for Religion, Culture, and Democracy senior fellows Hunter Baker and Micah Watson: "Here’s Why Church and State Must Remain Separate" thepublicdiscourse.com/2025/10/99205/ Public Discourse First Liberty Institute

"If you believe certain things about how human beings should be respected and honored, then you can escape a straightforward power calculus or at least moderate it in significant ways."

"...it is not enough to simply reject populist movements. Rather, they must first be understood in order to direct their destructive power..." thedailyeconomy.org/article/ordoli… American Institute for Economic Research

Please take a minute and consider sharing this and supporting a great and storied cause! Proceeds of the 91st Mudbowl go to support the Charles Woodson Fund, which helps kids at the UofM's C.S. Mott Children's Hospital. givebutter.com/91stMichiganMu… Charles Woodson C.S. Mott Children's

Out of print for many years, CL Press has brought back John Noonan Jr.'s classic study, The Scholastic Analysis of Usury, including a free PDF: clpress.net/books/the-scho… Might be relevant in light of some recent papal comments!

I am grateful to have this essay on Kuyper and revolutionary individualism featured at Just Sentiments... libertarianism.org/articles/abrah…

"Atomistic, revolutionary individualism violates natural laws and destroys the natural relationships of family and civil society, leading inevitably to the ascension of tyrants, animated by a lust for domination, and the exercise of arbitrary power in the social order."