Jason Jewell

Sep 23, 2024 | americanreformer.org | Jason Jewell

In 2013, when my wife was pregnant with our sixth child, we decided it was time to retire the hand-me-down minivan we had been driving for almost a decade and get a more roadworthy family vehicle. So one sunny day I drove onto the lot of a major dealership near my campus and got out to browse. When the smiling salesman walked up and asked if he could help me find something, I told him I needed a vehicle that would seat eight.

May 20, 2024 | lawliberty.org | Jason Jewell |David Schaefer |Nadya Williams |Samuel Gregg

“We need housing prices to fall; we also cannot afford for them to fall. Thus, we are trapped.” With these words, Charles “Chuck” Marohn and Daniel Herriges summarize the quandary of US housing policy. At bottom, they say, we have “a broken market that is more responsible to capital flow than to local demand.” Thus, for example, the overwhelming majority of new homes built today have three or more bedrooms even though two-thirds of American households consist of one or two people.

Jul 18, 2023 | lawliberty.org | Claes G. Ryn |Jason Jewell |Douglas Murray

Since Donald Trump shook up the American Right in 2015, many books and manifestos about the conservative movement and its future have appeared. Most of these works seek to stake out positions on familiar political and economic questions. Revisionists such as Julius Krein have called for an industrial policy to replace America’s free-trade orientation. Others like Adrian Vermeule counsel a move away from originalism as a governing judicial philosophy.

Jun 19, 2023 | americanreformer.org | Jason Jewell

Prudence and reinvigorated federalismIn the February 2022 issue of First Things magazine, Aaron Renn’s article, “The Three Worlds of Evangelicalism,” described a gradual change in the way mainstream American culture has viewed Christianity between the 1960s and the present.