Economics

Open Oceans or Shuttered Seas?

As China seeks to impose its closed vision of the oceanic commons, the US must counter this approach and recommit to its maritime heritage.

Silicon Valley Bank Failure: Not 2008, But Still Worrying

Though the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank is worrying for its own reasons, it will not lead to a global recession.

Relearning the Economic Lessons of Great Power Conflict

Nicolas Mulder’s “The Economic Weapon” has important lessons for America following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Land of the Rising Dead, Part Two: Death and Taxes

As military spending spirals, should Tokyo consider channeling the free-market spirit of the 1980s?

Are China’s Resurgent Economic Cooperatives Preparation for Invading Taiwan?

The return of Maoist-style agricultural communes in China are a foreboding sign of a return to the China of half a century ago.

St. Antonio and the Scholastics: Medieval Monks as Economists

Surprisingly, the first thinker to produce a systematic treatise on what’s today called Economics was Renaissance-era Dominican monk St. Antonio of Florence.

Economists as the High Priests of Liberalism

We have to be far, far more critical of which measurements we can take as proxies for a healthy nation. Economists can’t make these distinctions and libertarians don’t want to.

Matthew Kroening Christianity & National Security Conference 2022

During Providence‘s Christianity & National Security Conference in 2022, Matthew Kroenig discusses nuclear deterrence, rules-based international order, and great power…

Niebuhr’s Report from Scotland, 1947
Niebuhr’s Report from Scotland, 1947

In late winter and early spring 1947, Reinhold Niebuhr visited Europe and wrote short editorials for Christianity and Crisis as he traveled. In the following correspondences, the first coming from Scotland and the second coming from somewhere in the United Kingdom, he offers brief reflections on different current events.