This file was created in 2011 and has continually been updated — most recently in September 2019.
Important article by John Stonestreet and Robert Rivera: Hong Kong’s Lesson for Beijing . . . and the West: Economic Vitality and the Christian Worldview
The crackdown across mainland China and the attempts to control Hong Kong suggests the Chinese government wants what it cannot have: To enjoy Western creativity and economic vitality while simultaneously suppressing Christianity—the historical source of this Western creativity and vitality.
Video of Tucker Carlson: America’s goal is happiness, but leaders show no obligation to voters
Recommended Reading:
Robin Smith: Morality, Populism, and Cultural Decay
Americans thrive when the family unit is intact.
Bruce Walker: We Cannot Be Great without God
Eric Metaxas: Take a Stand for Marriage
Josh Sabey: ‘Privilege’ Is Just Another Word For Family, And We Need More Of It
Herbert London: Why Government Has Grown
J.G. Maggio: Weak Families = Big Government. Period.
Ben Peterson: The American Dream in Crisis: It’s Time for a New Moynihan Moment
Oren Cass: Social Inequality Matters as Much as — or More Than — Economic Inequality
Jim DeMint: The Connection Between Economic and Cultural Policies
Dylan Pahman: Connecting Religious and Economic Liberty
The Heritage Foundation: Indivisible: Social and Economic Foundations of American Liberty
Bill Muehlenberg: Cultural Marxism
Linda Kimball: Cultural Marxism
Selwyn Duke: Libertarian Folly: Why Everybody is a Social-issues Voter
Matt Barber: Cultural Marxism and the Communist States of America
Glenn Fairman: Social Conservatism and the Public Square
Ryan T. Anderson: A House Divided Cannot Stand: On Social and Economic Conservatism
Star Parker: Marriage and Abortion are Economic Issues
The Heritage Foundation: A winning conservative message is one that integrates economic arguments with social arguments
Joy Pullmann: Family Policy Is Economic Policy
Star Parker: Cultural Roots of a Fiscal Crisis
Star Parker: Free Markets Plus Individual Virtue Produces Prosperity
Robert P. George: No Mere Marriage of Convenience: The Unity of Economic and Social Conservatism
Joseph Sunde: Family Breakdown, Economic Decline, and the Search for Spiritual Capital
Dennis Prager: ‘Fiscal’ Conservatism Needs ‘Social’ Conservatism
Robert W. Patterson: Fiscal Conservatism Is Not Enough: What Social Conservatives Offer the Party of Lincoln
Andrew Klavan: The Long Game—Three areas the Right should address, financially and intellectually
Phyllis Schlafly: Phony Divide Between Fiscal & Social Issues
Jeremy Egerer: Why I’m Not a Libertarian
Selwyn Duke: Yes, Folks, We All Would Legislate Morality (Psst, Even You Libertarians)
Heidi Harris: Why Won’t Conservatives Just Drop Social Issues?
Keith Riler: The New Normal — Turning Back Cultural Marxism
Kathryn Lopez: When Marriage Disappears: The Retreat from Marriage in Middle America
Tony Blankley: Social conservatism and free-market capitalism are the two parts that make up the one
Newest posted first:
The Illinois Race for Governor: Cultural Marxism Will Crush Fiscal Conservatism
The Illinois Race for Governor and Cultural Marxism
C-PAC: The political right’s intelligence and competence problem manifests again (Part 1) (Part 2) (Part 3)
What “Economics-only” Republicans don’t understand
Moral neutrality is no longer a practical policy
Some Republicans on track to repeat past mistakes: The Liberal agenda is not just economic
Some Republicans on track to repeat past mistakes: Our social and cultural fabric is unraveling
Is Glenn Beck blind to the cultural issues “Overton Window”?
It’s time for a moratorium on the economic issues
You can’t separate economics from morality (Part 1) (Part 2)
News Alert: Religious Liberty is in the U.S. Constitution
Human nature is the tie that binds economic, social, and foreign policy (Part 1) (Part 2)
Social Conservatism and Economic Conservatism are “joined at the hip” (Part 1) (Part 2)
The permanent marriage between economics and morality
Overcoming issue attention deficit disorder: On so-called “homosexual rights”
You can’t have a good economy with a bad culture
Roskam & Kirk: Courage, moral confusion and litmus tests (Part 1) (Part 2)
Overcoming issue attention deficit disorder: On so-called “homosexual rights”
The connection between traditional values and economics
The GOP and the social issues: Civilization is behavior
Notes on a Speech: Fixing bad culture and bad government
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