Last week the Supreme Court ruled in the case ofJanus v. AFSCMEthat government employees who are represented by a public sector union to which they do not belong cannot be required to pay a fee to cover the costs of collective bargaining. The ruling overturned a forty-year-old precedent first set inAbood v. Detroit Board of Educationthat allows government agencies to mandate union dues or agency fees as a condition of employment. Catholic social teaching has a lot to say about...

Forecasts of an impending “robot apocalypse” have haunted intellectuals and caused some entrepreneurs to demand a universal basic e. But what if there’s something intrinsic to the human person that cannot be automated into oblivion? At theReligion & Liberty Transatlanticwebsite, Josh Herring reviews Jay W. Richards’ new book –The Human Advantage: The Future of American Work in an Age of Smart Machines– which makes precisely this contention. Richards, the executive editor ofThe Stream, also discussed thistopic at Acton University. Herring...

During her packed June 20 lecture at Acton University, Anne Rathbone Bradley wrestled with plicated topic of crony capitalism. The audience was hushed as she laid out why this economic disease destroys the long-term incentive panies and governments to exercise good-stewardship. Her lecture sparked a lively debate about economic intervention and crony capitalism’s implications on regulatory policy. Bradley began her talk by rejecting the phrase because she asserted “cronyism” is really a distortion of capitalism; in many ways, cronyism is...

July 4, 2018will be America’s 242nd Independence Day, the day Americans celebrate our Declaration of Independence from Great Britain. Here are five facts you should know about America’s founding document and the day set aside for memoration. 1. July 4, 1776 is the day that wecelebrate Independence Dayeven though it wasn’t the day the Continental Congress decided to declare independence (they did that on July 2, 1776), the day we started the American Revolution (that had happened back in April...