Search results for Jonathan Rowe

Viewpoint with Andrew Brown: The spreadsheet killeth; the essay giveth life

LISTENING to a debate on assisted dying a couple of weeks ago, I realised that there is an important division that runs within the two sides rather than between them. In fact, it r...

Solidarity Without Enemies: Józef Tischner and the Conversation of Human Labor

Rowan Williams on dialogue. 

Rowan Street Q1 2026 Letter

Peter Woodrow

Peter Woodrow dwatson@afsc.org Tue, 04/14/2026 - 12:12 Member, Portland Friends Meeting (Maine). Mostly retired consultant with continuing involvements regarding impr...

Notebook: Rachel Mann

Breaking the bounds ATTENDANCE at a senior colleague’s office retirement “do” brought these lines from William Cowper to mind: “From all his wearisome engagements freed, Shakes ha...

Notebook: Rachel Mann

Breaking the bounds ATTENDANCE at a senior colleague’s office retirement “do” brought these lines from William Cowper to mind: “From all his wearisome engagements freed, Shakes ha...

Alexander Bowen: The triple lock just isn’t that big a deal

That really is the failure of British pension policy - not the absence of means-testing, not outsized outflows, not arbitrary locks - is the failure of previous generations to plan...

Opinion – 29 April 2026

Colin Coward Unadulterated Love A Rumour of Angels – Peter Berger, Pope Leo and Donald Trump Yazid Said William Temple Foundation Religion, Theology and the New World Disorder Mark...

The Pews Prepared the Way

Cole Claybourn & Joshua Claybourn, Providence For all its moral advances, Enlightenment philosophy alone could never have produced the idea that all men are created equal with...

Development by Consent

March 2026 marked the 250th anniversary of the publication of An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776). However, Adam Smith was also the author of The...

Resourceful Earth Day: Fred Smith on Julian Simon

“The problems of famine, overpopulation, poverty, and disease are resolvable. In fact, they have been resolved in the United States and other places where human ingenuity is free t...

The Aging Class

Retirement, like so much of the American economy, is a broken system that benefits private interests and exploits the most vulnerable people.

A Call for Higher Payout from a Believer in Perpetual FoundationsPhil Buchanan President, CEP

It’s not necessarily the most popular take, but I am not afraid to admit it: I am a believer in long-time horizon — or perpetual — foundations. Like any category […] The post A Cal...

Opinion – 16 May 2026

Stuart Haynes Seen & Unseen Under moonlight: why Ormskirk opened its doors Colin Coward Unadulterated Love Changing Attitude, Human Connection and Community and Unadulterated L...

Exposing flaws in ‘climate economics’

Roger Pielke writes about the faulty research behind climate alarmism. The scientific journal Nature in December retracted one of the most influential climate economics papers of t...

Bishop Rowan Williams and Lady Hale debate whether we have the ‘right to die’

from BBC Newsnight

“Very difficult, perhaps altogether impossible”: Smith’s political science at Econlib

We’re joining our friends at Liberty Matters in their celebration of the 250th anniversary of the publication of An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations thro...

Why Adam Smith's moral philosophy provides an antidote to AI's dehumanising poison – Ronald Hepburn

As amoral artificial intelligence erodes their humanity, our children risk becoming very different people to previous generations

COMMENTARY: Place your bets on humanity

Stanford biologist Paul Ehrlich passed away in March at age 93. Fortunately, he lived long enough to see his most famous predictions proven wrong. In 1968, he and his wife, Anne, w...

Newman’s Own Foundation CEO on steward ownership: succession when you don’t want to sell

As boomers retire, a million viable businesses face uncertain futures. A growing movement of owners is choosing employee ownership — and rewriting legacy.

Book reviews: A Better Death by Jonathan Romain, and Do Not Go Gentle by Kathleen Stock

SIDE BY SIDE, these two books appear counter-intuitive. The defender of legalised assisted dying is a well-known Jewish rabbi, whereas its strident adversary is a secular philosoph...

Older Americans Are a Reality, Not a Problem

Sampling the outpouring of responses to a guest essay, “Older Americans Are Hoarding the Nation’s Potential,” by Samuel Moyn. Also: A clash over a wind project.

Paul Vallely: Activists show alternative to populism

ONE of the more heartening moments of the week came from the banks of the River Wye, where more than 4500 people in its catchment along the Welsh-English border have launched a lan...

Tabula Rasa: Volume Six, by John McPhee

A project meant not to end.