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The Christian Nationalism We Need

Josh Hawley

For decades, religious Americans have been the core of American conservatism. Every cycle, they faithfully turn out to the polls, understanding their civic duty in terms of Christian responsibility....

Our Christian Nation

Josh Hawley

Christopher Dawson was an English historian in the middle of the last century, one of those intellectuals prominent in his own day—T. S. Eliot called him “the most powerful...

Calling Wall Street’s Bluff

Josh Hawley

There’s a popular theory about how our financial markets work that goes like this: The markets are efficient mechanisms for “price discovery”—as in, the ideal price. The true price,...

The Big Tech Threat

Josh Hawley

This essay was originally delivered as a speech at the Hoover Institution on May 2, 2019. Social media is challenging for us to grapple with because it presents so...