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Edifice of Trust Podcast

Aug 28, 2020

Sheltering in place for fear of the COVID-19 pandemic, city workers have traded the deli around the corner from their office for the Chick-fil-A near their suburban home. But just as they were timorously beginning to think about venturing back into the city, protests, riots and looting are convincing them to stay put...


Aug 19, 2020

The saying “the more things change, the more they stay the same” is a truism that is not true. Things have been changing in America and mostly for the better. This year, America has been wracked, not only by the COVID-19 pandemic, but by nationwide protests that systemic racism is the cause of the problems in the...


Aug 11, 2020

Left-wing economists have hailed French economist Thomas Piketty’s new book, Capital and Ideology, as “the economics book…of the decade”, stating that its analysis is “breathtaking.” But while the scope of his  analysis of “inequality regimes” is extensive, he fails to adequately explain why there are so...


Aug 3, 2020

Between the pandemic, Black Lives matter protests, antifa rioting and the most divisive election in US history (except perhaps the 1800 election), I have been wondering what kind of world my kids and grandkids will inherit after I am gone. The Democrats are veering far to the left, but socialism doesn’t offer a better...