This article is based on a recent Bradley Lecture at the American Enterprise Institute. Beginning with the abolition of slavery, the bitter battles of American political life have often been fought ...

People worked hard long before there was a thing called the “work ethic,” much less a “Protestant work ethic.” The phrase itself emerged early in the twentieth century and has since congealed into a ...

Many Houstonians will celebrate this three-day Labor Day weekend by racing to Galveston beaches, hitting the malls for sales or making a fast getaway by plane. But for every stop for beer or gas, ...

A strong belief in the Protestant Work Ethic might underpin the decision-making of many people choosing "natural" approaches to health care, new research suggests. Their work has implications for ...

Americans’ propensity to work hard has often been attributed to the so-called Protestant work ethic. That term comes from the German sociologist Max Weber, who argued in the early 1900s that ...

America’s vaunted Protestant work ethic is getting a makeover: now it might be more of a secular or atheist work ethic. A new study has found an inverse relationship between the religiosity of a state ...

A strong belief in the Protestant Work Ethic might underpin the decision-making of many people choosing 'natural' approaches to healthcare, new research suggests. Academics say their paper identifies ...

The idea that Protestants work harder and build stronger economies than Catholics is more than 100 years old. First proposed by German sociologist Max Weber, the "Protestant work ethic" has been ...

On Wednesday, AEI assembled a panel of experts to discuss a new report examining how a child’s school shapes their family outcomes later in life. AEI’s W. Bradford Wilcox opened by discussing how the ...

The work of ordinary believers had a dignity of its own, and those in ordained offices should not be viewed as being on a higher plane than secular professions and family life. As a Protestant ...

A strong belief in the Protestant Work Ethic might underpin the decision-making of many people choosing ‘natural’ approaches to healthcare, new research suggests. Academics say their paper, published ...