Welfare State Archives - Praxis Circle

New Contributor: Charles Murray

by Praxis Circle | Sep 17, 2026 | America, Christianity, Culture, Freedom, Public Policy, Race Relations, Welfare State

What happens when the facts challenge the way we want the world to...

Capitalism: What’s in a Name?

by Doug Monroe | Aug 27, 2026 | America, Business, Capitalism, Christianity, Communism, Creatures/Humans/Humanity, Economics, Faith, Freedom, God, Governance, Grace, History, Human Being, Imago Dei, Jesus, Judeo-Christian/Greek Worldview, Liberalism, Marxism/Karl Marx, Modernity, Morality, Muslim World, Philosophy, Postmodernism, Progressivism/Left, Religion(s), Secularism, Socialism, Time & Space, Truth, Welfare State, Worldview

A Worldview In America’s 250th anniversary year, Hollywood shows signs it might be making good movies again. Most believe Young Washington and The Odyssey are fun, meaningful, and even...

Book of the Month: The Triumph of Economic Freedom

by Doug Monroe | Jul 24, 2026 | 360°, Capitalism, Christianity, Collectivism/Individualism, Creatures/Humans/Humanity, Economics, Federal/Balanced Budget, Freedom, Governance, Imago Dei, Judeo-Christian/Greek Worldview, Liberalism, Marxism/Karl Marx, Modernity, Morality, Politics, Welfare State, Work/Vocation

"As American capitalism blossomed, some individuals, of course, earned extraordinary riches. In 1892, there were 4,050 millionaires, with less that 20 percent of these individuals having inherited...

Book of the Month: The Revolt of the Elites

by Doug Monroe | Apr 2, 2026 | 360°, Capitalism, Constitution/Bill of Rights, Culture, Family, God, Governance, Human Being, Judeo-Christian/Greek Worldview, Marriage, Modernity, Politics, Progressivism/Left, Public Policy, Religion(s), Secularism, Socialism, Welfare State, Worldview

"Neither valor and chivalry nor the code of courtly, romantic love, with which these values are closely associated, has any place in the world view of the best and brightest. A meritocracy has no...

The Great Feminization

by Doug Monroe | Nov 14, 2025 | 360°, Constitution/Bill of Rights, Culture, Family, Gender Relations, Human Being, Human Rights, Identity Politics, Marriage, Modernity, Morality, Politics, Sexuality/Sexual Revolution, Social Justice, Welfare State

In short, men wage conflict openly while women covertly undermine or ostracize their enemies . . . Men tend to be better at compartmentalizing than women, and wokeness was in many ways a...

Christian Worldview Is on No One’s Political Spectrum

by Doug Monroe | Aug 7, 2025 | America, Bible, Christianity, Compass, Faith, Freedom, God, Governance, Judeo-Christian/Greek Worldview, Politics, Progressivism/Left, Secularism, Social Justice, Welfare State, Worldview

“It is also significant that no one can come to this God [that is, the God of Judaism and Christianity] except by personal freedom. Many of His first believers at times turned against Him. A few...

Donald Trump, Andrew Jackson, and We the People: The Progressive End of History

by Doug Monroe | Jul 18, 2025 | America, Capitalism, Christianity, Communism, Compass, Constitution/Bill of Rights, Economics, Faith, Family, Freedom, God, History, Judeo-Christian/Greek Worldview, Marxism/Karl Marx, Morality, Muslim World, Politics, Socialism, Welfare State, Worldview

"Andrew Jackson was a military hero and genius and a beloved President. But he was also a flawed and imperfect man, a product of his time. It is the duty of each generation to carry on the fight for...

Book of the Month: Get Married

by Doug Monroe | Apr 24, 2025 | 360°, Culture, Economics, Education, Faith, Family, Gender Relations, God, Governance, Human Being, Human Rights, Judeo-Christian/Greek Worldview, Marriage, Marxism/Karl Marx, Modernity, Morality, Personal Responsibility, Politics, Progressivism/Left, Secularism, Shalom/Human Flourishing, Theology, Welfare State, Worldview

The Problem: From Ronald Reagan to Donald Trump, from Jimmy Carter to Joe Biden, across Democratic and Republican administrations, the American family has lost ground. Too many on the right have had a blind faith in the market's power to bring prosperity and so much...

Love vs. Humbug Conservatism (and Other Scrooge-like Words such as Capitalism and Sex)

by Doug Monroe | Dec 17, 2024 | America, Capitalism, Christianity, Conservatism, Faith, Family, Jesus, Marriage, Politics, Postmodernism, Progressivism/Left, Social Justice, Welfare State, Worldview

Read on Friday, December 13, 2024: "We must assert out of transparent honesty that apart from a transcendent basis for public order's self-conception of itself being rooted in the natural law,...

Book of the Month: American Covenant

by Doug Monroe | Sep 24, 2024 | 360°, America, Constitution/Bill of Rights, Governance, Identity Politics, Judeo-Christian/Greek Worldview, Liberalism, Marxism/Karl Marx, Morality, Politics, Postmodernism, Progressivism/Left, Welfare State

"The kinds of parliamentary democracies that prevail in Europe tend to prioritize muscular policy action . . . The American system almost never empowers any majority in that way but, rather, insists...

Welfare State

New Contributor: Charles Murray

Capitalism: What’s in a Name?

Book of the Month: The Triumph of Economic Freedom

Book of the Month: The Revolt of the Elites

Donald Trump, Andrew Jackson, and We the People: The Progressive End of History

Book of the Month: Get Married

Book of the Month: American Covenant

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