I just finished reading the classic book by Jan Narveson, The Libertarian Idea, published in 1986. Now this book was no walk in the park. Narveson is a philosopher (and a pretty good one at that) and he writes in that very logical style–which I think we need more of at times. But whether you […]
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Libertarianism: Is It Viable?
27 Jun 2014
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Curious Minds Really Want to Know
27 Jun 2014
My Berean colleague Mark Smith wrote a very nice blog on the two cases decided by the United States Supreme Court yesterday. I commend it to you. But we were really hoping, I think, to hear from the Court on the Hobby Lobby case. You remember it. The Affordable Care Act (now in effect four years) […]
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Gridlock is Good
27 Jun 2014
Yesterday (June 26) the White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest (we could only wish) said, regarding immigration, “We’re not just going to sit around interminably for Congress.” He went on to say that the Obama administration was growing impatient with Congress. Well, this isn’t exactly earth-shattering news. We have known for say, seven years, that […]
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Musings for this Day
25 Jun 2014
The economy shrank by 2.9% so far this year, it was announced today. Recession, what recession? We were told by the economists that it was over long ago. So go on with whatever you were doing (or if you were unemployed, with what you aren’t doing) and don’t worry.
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Bill Bloat, or, Statutory Satiation
25 Jun 2014
Congress hasn’t passed all that much legislation in some time, or at least not anything much of significance. That may be a good thing. But in this blog I want to take a look at a very disturbing trend in the legislation that has passed. Below I have listed some of the most important bills […]
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Piketty’s Predicament
24 Jun 2014
For those who don’t want to read the book, there is nice article by Jonah Goldberg in the June 24, 2014 issue of National Review Online. If you just woke up from a long, long nap or just returned form an isolated vactaion spot, you will remember that in April of this year, the book […]
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Thoughts for the Day on Scandal and Conspiracy
24 Jun 2014
It may appear to be a slow summer, but if you look more closely you will see that the same issues continue to percolate–the IRS scandal, the immigration influx, Benghazi, Obamacare (especially now, as we are one day away from a Supreme Court decision on the mandate and religious freedom), the VA scandal, proposed regulations […]
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In a recent column in the Washington Post, the journalist George Will wrote a column on sexual assault entitle “Colleges Become Victims of Progressivism” (June 6, 2014) in which he was critical of the Department of Justice’s new standards for proving sexual assault on college campuses and skeptical of the statistics backing those new standards. […]
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A Very Long Review of a Very Intellectually Deficient, but Very Big, Book by Thomas Piketty
09 Jun 2014
Before I begin this blog, I beg the reader’s indulgence for such a long book review. However I considered this book worthy of such a detailed examination, due to its popularity and influence, barely three months after its appearance. I do hope the length will be justified by the service it may provide. I promise […]
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Warning: Arcane Book Review of Work on the Nineteenth Century Economic Thought of Evangelicals
03 Jun 2014
I just finished a very interesting, but somewhat difficult, book on the economic thought of Evangelicals in Great Britain between around 1790 and 1880. Sounds really boring? Well, it was a little bit of slogging at times, but it was worth it. The author is Boyd Hilton, the title is The Age of Atonement: The […]
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