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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Can Commerce Inspire? -- The Virtues of a Commercial Republic -- Ships Passing in the Night: The Conceptual Disconnects Between American Christianity and Capitalism -- Disconnected at the Roots": How Gaps in the Catholic Social Doctrine Impede Dialog and Action on Economic Justice -- The Market's Benevolent Tendencies -- The Jews and Capitalism: A Love-Hate Relationship -- Doing "Secular Theology": Business Ethics in Economic and Environmental Religion -- Why Is There a Conflict Between Business and Religion? A Historical Perspective -- The Metaphysical Foundations of the Ethics of Commerce -- The Deuteronomic Double Standard: Human Nature and the Nature of Markets -- What Does America Owe to Florence? -- Property in Roman Religion and Early Christian Fathers -- Perestroika in Christendom: The Scholastics Develop a Commerce-Friendly Moral Code -- The Concern of the Church and the Unconcern of the Free Market -- The "Conflict" Between Business and Religion: Where Does It Come From? -- Capitalism Beyond the "End of History -- An Explanation for Jewish Business Success -- The Virtue of Commerce in the Catholic Tradition -- Islam, Commerce, and Business Ethics -- Can Theology Help Us in Applied Ethics? -- The Sources and Spiritual Basis of Catholic Business Ethics -- Calling, Character, Community: Spirituality for Business People -- Mankind Was My Business:" An Examination of a Christian Business Ethic and Its Application to Various Ethical Challenges -- Corporate Corruption: How the Theories of Reinhold Niebuhr and the Ethical Practices of Joseph Badaracco May Help Understand and Limit Corporate Corruption -- Corporate Social Responsibility: A Traditional Catholic Perspective -- Natural Law and the Fiduciary Duties of Business Managers.

Analytic philosophy has been a dominant intellectual movement in the 20th century and a reflection of the cultural pre-eminence of scientism. In response to analytic philosophy's peculiar reticence (and inability) to discuss itself, this book provides its first comprehensive history and critique. The central element in the analytic conversation has been the Enlightenment Project: the appeal to an autonomous human reason, freed of any higher authority and channeling itself through science as its privileged tool. This centrality is demonstrated by systematically examining its presence and development in the philosophy of science, metaphysics, epistemology, language, psychology, social science, ethics, political philosophy, and the history of philosophy. This journey highlights the internal logical disintegration of that project. Post-modern relativism is its natural offspring and not a viable alternative. The Enlightenment Project's conception of physical science is defective; this defective conception of physical science renders the analytic conception of social science, philosophical psychology, and epistemology defective; and that defective conception of the human condition leads to defective conceptions of both moral and political philosophy, specifically the idea of social engineering or social technology. Throughout the book, an alternative conception of philosophy is presented as a way out of the abyss of analysis, an alternative that reconnects philosophy with the mainstream of Western civilization and initiates the process of providing a coherent cultural narrative. This book will be of particular interest to any sophisticated reader concerned about the lack of a coherent cultural narrative

Why is there a debate about immigration? / Nicholas Capaldi -- Time to rethink immigration? / Peter Brimelow -- Alien rumination / Peter H. Schuck -- National origins quotas should be retained (1964) / Marion Moncure Duncan -- A nation of immigrants / John F. Kennedy -- Immigration law: a bird's-eye view / Nadia Nedzel -- "The worst job in the world?" / an interview with Doris Meissner by Claudia Dreifus -- Still an open door?: U.S. immigration policy and the American economy / Vernon M. Briggs, Jr. and Stephen Moore -- Know the flow / George J. Borjas -- Peaceful invasions: immigration and changing America / Leon F. Bouvier -- New Americans by choice: political perspectives of Latino immigrants / Harry Pachon and Louis DeSipio -- The disuniting of America / Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. -- Along the Tortilla Curtain / Pete Hamill -- Scapegoating immigrants / Elizabeth Martinez -- Immigration and the aliens among us / Richard John Neuhaus -- One nation, one common language / Linda Chavez -- "English only" / ACLU briefing paper -- The importance of learning English: a national survey of Hispanic parents / Center for Equal Opportunity -- Bilingual education in Massachusetts: the emperor has no clothes / Christine H. Rossell and Keith Baker -- Bilingual education: separating fact from fiction / Richard V. L(c)đpez -- The index of leading immigration indicators / John J. Miller and Stephen Moore

This is a critique of Pope Francis's encyclical Laudato si'. The author summarizes and examines Pope Francis's description of the problem, analysis of the roots of the problem, and proposed solution of the problem within the context of the Roman Catholic tradition. The author concludes that the encyclical abandons rigorous argument, as it lists complaints without offering substantive alternatives.