James R. Rogers

James Rogers is associate professor of political science at Texas A&M University, and a fellow with the Institute for Science, Technology and Public Policy at the Bush School of Government and Public Service. He served as editor of the Journal of Theoretical Politics from 2006 through 2013.

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Michael Lind and the Forgotten Consumer

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Walmart store in Miami, Florida in 2019 (Chekyravaa/Shutterstock.com).
Lind seems to have a picture in his mind of a more cooperative, more Tocquevillian America, but he endorses means that would be immensely destructive.

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The Inner Life of the American Communist

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Communists demonstrate in Union Square c. 1931 (Everett Historical/Shutterstock.com).
Despite Gornick's good intentions, the painful end of the Communist romance dominates her book from start to finish.

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Crony Capitalism & the Case for Labor Unions

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Union workers from IBEW Local 613 marching in the Martin Luther King, Jr Day parade in Atlanta, Georgia on January 20, 2020 (John Pryor/Shutterstock.com).
We don't live in a classically liberal economy, so why should we critique labor unions as if we do?

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America’s Governing Philosophy Is Rawlsian, not Hayekian

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John Rawls at Harvard.
Holding up Hayek for abuse allows both right and left postliberals to substitute ideological argument for data and analysis of specific policies.

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Confronting the “Affordability Crisis”

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For sale in San Francisco. (Natasha Kramskaya/Shutterstock.com)
Whether we are trying to account for government failure, or market failure, we shouldn't double count costs.

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The Inescapable Particularity of Strong Gods

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R.R. Reno speaks at a James Madison Program event at Princeton University, November 14, 2018 (Image: Princeton University).
The irony is that the problem with Reno’s argument is the problem that Reno identifies as liberalism's fatal flaw, the absence of particularity.

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McCloskey’s Brief Against Antiliberalism

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Modern antiliberals on both the right and the left must account for the benefits of markets, and recognize our tragic choice.

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The Return of Utopian Romanticism

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Charging Bull, the famous Wall Street sculpture at Bowling Green in the Financial District, New York, New York (photo.ua/shutterstock.com).
Eugene McCarraher's Enchantments of Mammon seeks to unveil capitalism and recapture a premodern sense of the world as sacramental.

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The Faulty Rhetoric of Income Stagnation

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Image: Josh Randall/Shutterstock.com
It makes sense why stagnation rhetoric is so common, but the facts don't support it.

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Luther and Liberalism

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Martin Luther and other reformers depicted in stained glass at Nieuwe Kirk, Delft, Netherlands (Bill Perry/Shutterstock.com).
The roots of Western liberalism both precede, and go far deeper, than Martin Luther and his influence.

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