Richard M. Weaver's Ideas Have Consequences, published 75 years ago, is not really a book about how ideas have consequences. It's a book about what one idea, propounded by the medieval friar William ...

The idea that large, nonbank financial institutions are “interconnected” and will cause a systemic breakdown if they fail began as a policy rationale for the rescue of Bear Stearns and evolved into ...

Something has gone missing from American politics. Since the beginning of the new administration in January, public debate focused on general ideas has largely disappeared. Yes, President Trump has a ...

Will old guard, establishment conservatives ever be held accountable for being wrong, about everything, every single time? You’ve heard all of this before, dear reader. And maybe you thought that, ...

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Is the radical right pure hate and all emotion? Well, they may start from that, but humans that they are, some of them try to rationalize their hates and fears into theories that, though detached from ...

Over the past three decades, conservatives have painstakingly cultivated the public persona of an aggrieved outsider class, bereft of the money and media influence they claim liberals enjoy. Their ...

After Hamas’ terror attack on Israel, tens of thousands took to the streets. They marched in Manhattan and Chicago, as well as London and Paris. Rallies were held ...

Mistakes are an inescapable part of life. This is especially true during childhood—where kids make most use of trial and error to learn the ways of life. Almost ...

To understand the culture in which we live, you need to be familiar with the ideas that have shaped it. In Ligonier's survey series, The Consequences of Ideas, R.C. Sproul traces the contours of ...

Were the protesters lamenting the death of Israelis civilians? Not at all. Were they there to demand the release of young children taken hostage by Hamas? I missed that bit. Instead, in the wake of a ...