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On the “human nature” argument against socialism

John Fea   |  July 11, 2023

Opponents of socialism argue that socialism will never work because human beings are selfish and will always look after their own interests above the economic interest of others. In other words, an altruistic and cooperative society is impossible due to […]

Episode 92: “Original Sin and the History of American Democracy”

John Fea   |  October 3, 2021

Our guest in this episode is historian Robert Tracy McKenzie, author of We the Fallen the People: The Founders and the Future of American Democracy. In the spirit of the 20th-century theologian and ethicist Reinhold Niebuhr, McKenzie places the Christian doctrine of […]