I have so far avoided taking any position on the two main candidates for president. For my colleague Mark Smith, don’t worry, I will. I intend to continue the path of avoidance in this blog. Today I would like to examine and evaluate each candidate’s economic program. I say nothing about their personal morality, or […]
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The Majority Wins: But What?
06 Aug 2016
Well, the rage now is politics, electoral politics. My colleague Mark Smith has been busy the past few days addressing Wayne Grudem’s qualified support of Donald Trump for president. I am not going there for now. I wanted to say something about the bigger picture of how and why we got to where we are […]
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Globalism versus Globalization
22 Jul 2016
President Obama has shown his true colors again. In a speech to a group of ambassadors gathered at the White House (July 15) he said this: “I think we have to step back [from the Nice attack] and reflect on what we are doing to eliminate this kind of chronic violence. It’s been a difficult several weeks […]
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Another Federal Failure
22 Jul 2016
I have no doubt that the following blog will be controversial, but it is so important that I must permit the controversy to rage. I read and agree with a recent piece in SeeThruEDU by George Leef, entitled “America’s Ridiculous Notion: Accreditation is What Makes Colleges Good or Bad.” (http://seethruedu.com/americas-ridiculous-notion-accreditation-is-what-makes-colleges-good-or-bad) The argument in the article […]
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I think what I am doing in this blog is a bit out of the ordinary. And I offer it with an attitude of trepidation. But nevertheless, I have included in this blog a link to the first chapter of what I envision as an entire book on Christian Worldview. The tentative title is The […]
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Charles Murray has shown a division in the United States between the ordinary citizen and the “rich and/or famous” people (Murray, Coming Apart). The latter increasingly isolate themselves, physically and in other ways, from the rest of us. They also tend to live more extravagant lives, to the point sometimes of trampling on the “little […]
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Our Only Hope in Life and Death
10 Jul 2016
I don’t know how many of you lived in the mid- to late 1960s, during the summers of rioting in large (and sometimes small) cities in America, but this week I have had the same feeling I had then, at age 10-12. It seemed as if our very civilization was threatened, even if it wasn’t. […]
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240 years ago, more or less on July 4 (the actual date of the signing of the Declaration is debated), the members of the Continental Congress signed a document that severed the bonds of the American colonies from their British rulers. For many Americans, this day is still cause for celebration for that reason, as […]
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The Progressive Dream: In Reality
30 Jun 2016
In the period from about 1890 to 1920, labeled the Progressive Era, political thinkers, economists (a new profession then) and public intellectuals told Americans and Europeans that the best way to get efficient government that actually worked was to create independent boards, commissions and other similar organizations. We were told they would be free from […]
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What Happened on the Way to Richard Posner?
29 Jun 2016
Way back in the late 1970s, when the Law and Economics movement was really getting underway, one of the “stars” of that intellectual movement was Richard Posner, a law professor at the time, and one interested in hos economics might be applicable to law. At the time, I was also developing an interest in economics, […]
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