How Religious Freedom in America Was Founded on Privatization and Decentralization

A common myth about American history is the one in which a handful of so-called “founding fathers” in the 1780s declared that America would create a “wall of separation” between religious institutions and government institutions. After that, the First Amendment to the US constitution was instrumental in ensuring that religious institutions would be totally separate from American political institutions. Or so the story goes.

The K-Shaped Economy

Journalists and mainstream economists love to place simple labels on things they don’t understand to indicate regularity and partly to cover for their ignorance. You have no doubt heard of the K-shaped economy which is dominating discussions across all areas of the media including Christmas sales, job prospects, and policy in Washington DC. The K-shaped economy has completely displaced talk of the L-shaped and V-shaped versions.