The Pragmatist

April 7, 2025

The Stillness in the Frame: Walker Evans and the American Gaze During the Great Depression

Through a quiet lens, Walker Evans captured the dignity, despair, and endurance of Depression-era America.

April 6, 2025

In this episode, we dive into the ongoing struggle between free markets and government intervention, tracing

Essays

April 6, 2025

How a Christian-inflected movement is testing the wall between church and state—and what history tells us.

Essays

April 5, 2025

This isn't a story about partisanship—it's about how money quietly reshaped the

Essays

March 23, 2025

Trump’s economic approach leans toward deregulation and protectionism—but will it lean too

Essays

April 6, 2025

How a Christian-inflected movement is testing the wall between church and state—and what history tells us.

Essays

April 5, 2025

This isn't a story about partisanship—it's about how money quietly reshaped the institutions we once trusted.

Essays

March 23, 2025

Trump’s economic approach leans toward deregulation and protectionism—but will it lean too far, as history has before?

Essays

March 21, 2025

Political tribalism divides us, yet we are more alike than we think.

April 6, 2025

In this episode, we dive into the ongoing struggle between free markets and government intervention, tracing its impact from the Gilded Age to Trump.