H.B.S. can provide students with a “golden passport” to a wealthy lifestyle, but do ethical business practices get lost along the way?
Economics
Posted inFeatures, Politics & Society
Can Catholic social teaching help solve the labor crisis?
We need an economy that enables people to apply their energies to meaningful work that advances the common good.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Does divestment evangelize or enable the fossil-fuel industry?
One option for promoting just business practices is divestment, but investing to gain a seat at the corporate table is also an important advocacy strategy.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
The real imbalance between US and China? Savings.
We are in the topsy-turvy world: Communists call for free trade while capitalist-country leaders call for more tariffs and trade restrictions.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Fixing the capitalist system
John Matteson reviews “The Fate of the West” by Bill Emmott
Posted inPodcasts, Politics & Society
Nathan Schneider on the hidden perils of philanthropy
Our guest this week is Nathan Schneider, a contributing writer for America and the author of “Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg and The Case Against Philanthropy As We Know It,” which appeared in America’s June 26th issue. Is philanthropy something we want to encourage as the way things get done in our societies? Schneider finds that “it’s […]
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Pope Francis: Labor unions are essential to society
Labor unions must guard and protect workers, but also defend the rights of those “outside the walls,” Pope Francis said.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Congregations can’t make up for proposed federal budget cuts
Every religious congregation in the U.S.would have to raise an additional $714,000 every year for the next 10 years to make up for the 2018 budget cuts President Trump has proposed.
Posted inFeatures, Politics & Society
Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg and The Case Against Billionaire Philanthropy As We Know It
Philanthropy should be regarded as a subdomain of democracy, not an exception to it.
Posted inFaith, News
Meet the nun who’s transforming companies into socially responsible corporations
“For many years if anyone from General Electric would see Sister Pat on the streets of New York they would cross the street to avoid her,” the GE executive recalled. “Today, I knew she was going to be here and I looked for her at breakfast.”