In this final issue of the inaugural year of the Reading Wheel Review, CRCD executive director Trey Dimsdale interviews Dr. Catherine Ruth Pakaluk, a Harvard-trained economist and professor at the Busch School of Business at the Catholic University of America and a senior fellow at the CRCD. They discuss Pakaluk’s book, Hannah’s
Some evolutionary biologists make the observation that natural selection continues in the contemporary world. Yes, the evolutionary process whereby those more fit in a particular environment pass on their genes and those less fit do not continues to shape our species. The reasoning is simple: in the contemporary world, as
I was lucky to grow up with an excellent parish priest. His preaching was particularly memorable, and one of the lines he liked to repeat was this: “When the world has a problem, God sends a baby.” This way of speaking is surprising because we are accustomed to thinking about
Returning home from a trip, backpack at my feet, I settled into a seat along the side of a Virginia Railway commuter train from D.C. to Manassas with my infant son snuggled at my chest. It was the spring of 2010, after I defended my dissertation but before I graduated
