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Kelly Hanlon

Kelly Hanlon is Contributing Editor of Public Discourse and Director of Operations at the Witherspoon Institute.

Over the past fifteen years, Kelly Hanlon has directed programming and operations for non-profits and for-profits in industries as diverse as education, economics and finance, music, community organizations, and the environment. At the University of Louisville, Hanlon earned her undergraduate degree in politics and psychology as a McConnell Scholar before pursuing graduate work in economics at the University of Delaware, where she wrote extensively about fiscal and monetary policy in the aftermath of the Great Depression.

She currently serves on the steering committee for the Center for Statesmanship, Law, and Liberty at the Rochester Institute of Technology and as President of the Greater Philadelphia Alumni Association for the University of Louisville. Previously, she served on the boards of the Templeton Honors College at Eastern University and the Brandywine YMCA in Delaware.

young adults

Why Do Today’s Emerging Adults Need a Playbook? A Q&A with Anna Moreland

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With respect to love, the loneliness epidemic is real. And that affects not just romantic relationships, but friendships as well. At the end of the day, life is a gift, and the center of life is who you love. That doesn’t start happening when you’re in your mid-thirties. It starts happening now
Arthur Laffer and Brian Domitrovic

Taxes Have Consequences: An Interview with Arthur B. Laffer and Brian Domitrovic

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Whenever you redistribute income, you never actually redistribute income. You destroy total income completely. Every revolution on planet Earth has been fought in order to change the distribution of income. Not one of those revolutions has ever succeeded in redistributing income, but all of them have succeeded in destroying the entire quality and quantity of total income.
working moms

Flourishing in Work and Family Life: Considerations for Young Women 

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Six panelists share how they structure their lives in a way that allows them to pursue creative, intellectually inspiring work, while remaining open to life and faithful to the good work of the home.
The history and future of conservatism

The History and Future of Conservatism: An Interview with Dr. George H. Nash

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These desires—freedom, virtue, and safety—were the underlying impulses of the libertarian, traditionalist, and national security elements of the “fusionist” conservative movement during the Cold War era. And, it seems to me that when you look at it this way, you will recognize that these yearnings persist on the Right to this day.
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America’s Commercial Republic, and Its Detractors: An Interview with Samuel Gregg

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Key Founders believed that America’s future was to be a polity in which free and dynamic commerce would play a powerful role in defining society, as opposed to, say, the priorities of aristocratic or feudal societies. The “republic” side of this political economy equation is that this commercial society would operate within the context of institutions and sets of virtues that draw upon classical, religious, and moderate Enlightenment sources.
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Government Handouts Won’t Reverse the Baby Bust: Three Responses to Gladden Pappin

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Should social conservatives embrace large-scale economic programs aimed at subsidizing family formation and childbearing? Is it more effective to focus on long-term economic growth? Are our declining birth rates really cause for concern, anyway? If they are, to what extent can the problem be solved by governmental family subsidies?
Economy

God or Government: What an Economy of “Nones” May Mean for Our Future

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G.K. Chesterton may have summed up our current situation best: men who stop believing in God do not believe in nothing, but believe in anything. It seems that we’ve moved from belief in God to belief in government, and are hurtling toward an ever-growing state.

From the Great Recession to the Great Divide: Business and Economics in the Last Decade

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Americans today are anxious—not just financially, but socially. We despair even though we are materially better off than at any other time in human history. What happened? How did we get here?
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