Politics

On Fridays, we bring you the best of our blog and the best of the web. This week's roundup includes reasoning for why Hollywood needs “good” Christian art, behavioral science solutions for public policy, and more.

On Fridays, we bring you the best of our blog and the best of the web. This week's roundup includes a remembrance of Margaret Thatcher, a discussion of welfare policy’s effect on the family, and more.

On Fridays, we bring you the best of our blog and the best of the web. This week's roundup includes a discussion of real first world problems, economic haikus and more.

When I began my freshman year of college, I didn't care much about politics. I grew up in a conservative Christian home, and as far as I knew, the beliefs of my parents suited me just fine.

Our featured guest this week on "The RJ Moeller Show" is Professor Glenn Reynolds—The Instapundit! Prof. Reynolds is Beauchamp Brogan Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Tennessee, and he's best known for his blog, Instapundit, one of the most widely read political websites in the country.

On Fridays, we bring you the best of our blog and the best of the web. This week's roundup includes a moral critique of conservative political strategy, a discussion of free markets and consumerism, and more.

Our guest this week on "The RJ Moeller Show" is James Poulos of Forbes and HuffPost Live. James is a producer at HuffPost Live and a contributor at Forbes and Vice. His writing has been published at places like The American Conservative, The American Interest, The Atlantic, The Boston Globe, Cato Unbound, First Things, Foreign Policy and The Weekly Standard.

First up on this week's episode of "The RJ Moeller Show" is our conversation with Canadian author and broadcaster Michael Coren. Michael is the host of "The Arena," a nightly television show on Sun News. "The Arena" stresses international coverage—particularly the Middle East, the U.S. and Europe—but also takes on social, moral and religious issues and Canadian life and politics.

Father Robert Sirico, a leader in "morality of capitalism" public arguments, recently spoke at my alma mater, Hillsdale College, on how to think about social justice. Social justice is another of those squishy phrases that no sane person is against until they find out what it means.

This week's episode of "The RJ Moeller Show" opens with a quick interview RJ conducted with a young Christian director by the name of Mark Freiburger. Mark talks about his career, the challenges for indie filmmakers, the opportunity to be a man of faith in a largely secular industry, and the recent announcement that the 30-second commercial he directed for Doritos is a finalist for their "Crash the Superbowl" competition.

On Fridays, we bring you the best of our blog and the best of the web. This week's roundup includes New Year's resolutions, potato chips, moral lessons from Les Misérables and more.

Below are our most popular posts of 2012. Thank you for contributing to the discussion at Values & Capitalism this past year. Happy New Year!

We're excited to welcome Ramesh Ponnuru to "The RJ Moeller Show!" Ramesh is a senior editor for National Review, where he has covered national politics for 18 years, and a visiting fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.

The talk of a "fiscal cliff" is all over the news these days. Whatever partisan affiliation you have, I'd like to take a moment of your time to explain what happens when taxes are raised on wealthy people.

First up on this week's episode of "The RJ Moeller Show:" an in-depth interview with James Pethokoukis. James Pethokoukis is a columnist and blogger for the American Enterprise Institute.

This week's episode of "The RJ Moeller Show" opens with a conversation with a return guest to the podcast: Professor Hunter Baker. Dr. Baker serves as dean of instruction and associate professor of political science at Union University. In the second segment, R.J. welcomes J.P. Freire, a journalist in Washington, D.C., for nearly a decade.

On Fridays, we bring you the best of our blog and the best of the web. This week's roundup includes a Christian response to Hurricane Sandy, a conservative response to poverty, a more meaningful ending to "The Hunger Games" and more.

The newest episode of "The RJ Moeller Show" opens with a visit from our favorite reporter, Caroline May of The Daily Caller. Next up is an interview with lawyer/author Adam J. Freedman, whose new book "The Naked Constitution" is a highly accessible look at what the founders intended and why the document they constructed still matters today.

On Fridays, we bring you the best of our blog and the best of the web. This week's roundup includes answers to popular economic myths, the story of free enterprise, theology’s advice to economics and more.

This is as good as podcasting gets, folks. "The RJ Moeller Show" is a star-studded episode this week, and we open things by having a candid, in-depth conversation with the actor John O'Hurley—Mr. Peterman from "Seinfeld."

On Fridays, we bring you the best of our blog and the best of the web. This week's roundup includes an interview with Arthur Brooks, a closer look at the Chicago teacher’s strike, a review of education technologies, and more.

This week's episode of "The RJ Moeller Show" features two fascinating interviews with two fascinating individuals. First up is RJ's conversation with Lawrence Reed. Mr. Reed currently serves as the president of the Foundation for Economic Education...

Our featured guest this week on "The RJ Moeller Show" is columnist and author Ben Shapiro. Ben currently runs Benjamin Shapiro Legal Consulting, based in Los Angeles. He is editor-at-large of Breitbart.com, and is a Shillman Fellow at the Freedom Center.

On Fridays, we bring you the best of our blog and the best of the web. This week's roundup includes a new piece on how young voters might be paying more attention to economic policy, thoughts on Frédéric Bastiat's faith, and a podcast with Hillsdale College president Dr. Larry Arnn.

"The RJ Moeller Show" is again opening things up with a little taste of Hollywood! Rob Long is a television producer who has been in the business for nearly three decades. Rob began his career working on a little show called "Cheers," and his latest project, co-produced with Vince Vaughn, is "Sullivan & Son."

It's no secret that the conservative-libertarian divide has become starker in recent years. Some blame Ron Paul. Others credit YouTube. But regardless of the source, the ideological disputes between the two philosophies are far from resolved.

This week's episode of "The RJ Moeller Show" opens with our fan-favorite "News You May Have Missed, But Probably Shouldn't Have" segment with The Daily Caller's intrepid reporter, Caroline May.

It was only a matter of time before we'd be able to utter these words: The RJ Moeller Show welcomes a New York Times columnist to the show this week. That day has arrived, and we are excited to offer up—for your listening pleasure—our interview with Ross Douthat!

I thoroughly enjoyed my time at AEI headquarters this month at the Values & Capitalism 2012 Purpose & Prosperity conference for undergraduate students. Not only were we treated with exemplary hospitality, but were exposed to a number of experts ranging on such topics as the economy's relation to the disintegration of the family...

After reading Matt Miller’s weekend opinion article for the Washington Post, I have decided to join the Occupy movement. But forget Wall Street. I've got a different take: Occupy Social Security. Or, perhaps, Occupy Government Debt.

Despite the fact that the presidential election isn't for more than five months, it seems that politics is what's on everyone's minds these days. So on this week's episode of "The RJ Moeller Show," The Gang—RJ, Brandon and Joe—inspects, dissects and analyzes the current political landscape for you.

In the cheerful spirit of engaging the "other side" when it comes to political and cultural issues, "The RJ Moeller Show" is proud to present our conversation with author and commentator Jonathan Merritt.

Last week, some upstart campaign staffers on President Obama's re-election campaign had a brilliant idea. They designed one of those super-cool slideshows that are in this year, and told the story of fictional woman named "Julia." There is a light side and a dark side to Julia's story.

While speaking to this week's featured guest on "The RJ Moeller Show," Dr. Charles Murray, R.J. said he felt like Wayne and Garth bumping into Alice Cooper backstage: "I wasn't worthy!" Charles Murray has been one of the preeminent thinkers in the country for three decades. He is a political scientist, author and renowned libertarian.

How many of us describe ourselves as conservative/libertarian-ish? Apparently a lot of us. I said in an earlier post, "social conservatives accuse me of being too libertarian, libertarians accuse me of being too socially conservative."

Dr. Albert Mohler is the president of Southern Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky., and one of the most influential Christian public thinkers alive today. R.J. and Dr. Mohler chat about growing up in small-town Florida, the shift to the left on Christian college campuses when it comes to matters of economics, and the optimism that Ronald Reagan injected back into our society in 1980.

Dr. Jay Richards is our featured guest on this, the newest episode of The RJ Moeller Show. Dr. Richards is a senior fellow of the Discovery Institute where he directs the Center on Wealth, Poverty and Morality, and is a visiting scholar at the Institute for Faith, Work & Economics.

Our very special guest this week on The RJ Moeller Show is none other than novelist, social commentator and all-around nice guy, Andrew Klavan. Andrew is the author of such internationally bestselling novels as True Crime, filmed by Clint Eastwood, and Don’t Say A Word, filmed starring Michael Douglas.

Over the course of the campaign thus far, GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney has repeatedly made statements that reveal the gulf between his wealthy lifestyle and that of the average American (resulting in my favorite meme of this political season). Now Ann Romney, his wife, has sparked another mini-controversy. But, this time, the clamoring pundits are wrong.

One of our dutiful bloggers, my former-intern-turned-friend Jacque Otto, has taken to the pages of Values & Capitalism in defense of something called "Christian Libertarianism." I've always been skeptical of attempts to mash these two, despite the best efforts of certain interns, co-workers, and friends to convince me otherwise.

In this week's episode of The RJ Moeller Show, RJ welcomes vice president of the Family Research Council, Rob Schwarzwalder, and Mark Hemingway, online editor of The Weekly Standard.

Canadian publisher, journalist, political commentator, and champion of free speech Ezra Levant is this week's featured guest on the Values & Capitalism podcast. Ezra is the founder and former publisher of the Western Standard, hosts The Source daily on Sun News Network and has written several books on politics.

My friend Karin Agness posted an answer to the question, “What’s so appealing about Ron Paul to young voters?” over at FoxNews.com yesterday. Paul has done okay this primary season, finishing a surprising third in Iowa and a strong second in New Hampshire.

This year’s State of the Union address was particularly painful for anyone who understands that human knowledge has its limits. Notions of central-planner grandeur were flowing, causing economist Friedrich Hayek’s famous bit from The Fatal Conceit to run repeatedly across my mind throughout the rest of the evening...

Our featured guest on this episode of The R.J. Moeller Show is Troy Senik, a former speechwriter for President George W. Bush. Troy is an editor at Ricochet.com, and prior to his tenure at the White House, he served as a writer for California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich.

On Friday afternoons, we bring you the best of our blog and the best of the web. This week's round-up includes two videos, a challenge to free-market Christians, the best blogs of Joseph Sunde, and a podcast worth listening to!

The latest episode of The R.J. Moeller Show podcast opens with a quick review of R.J.'s viewing of the 50th Anniversary Edition of Ben-Hur on the big screen.

In this episode of The RJ Moeller Show, R.J. flies solo and chats with two very different, very interesting people. The first is AEI's vice president and director of the National Research Initiative, Henry Olsen.

The second half of our two-part episode this week welcomes special (return) guest, Adam Carolla. Adam is the host of the most downloaded podcast in the history of humans, a wildly successful stand-up comedian, and a New York Times best-selling author.

It's a sad day for The RJ Moeller Show, but it's also a proud one. Our newsman Matt Levon left today for the Air Force's basic training near San Antonio, Texas. But before embarking on a new and exciting journey, Matt recorded one last episode of the podcast.

We're proud to present our conversations with both Dr. Tim Groseclose (UCLA) and National Review's Rob Long.

Rich Lowry, editor of National Review, was my guest this week on the Values and Capitalism podcast. What a thrill!

Welcome to this week's episode of the American Enterprise Institute's "Values and Capitalism" podcast: The R.J. Moeller Show!

Stephen Richer—a Jewish Voter—is a director at a Washington, DC, think tank and is the President of www.GatherTheJews.com.

Yesterday, I had the pleasure of appearing as a guest on the To the Point radio program on Southern California's NPR affiliate KCRW. The interview starts at about 19:35.

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