I’m taking a break on political economy for a post today, since as I tell my students, you can have more impact on your communities if you are a small business owner than you can as a U.S. Congressman or Congresswoman. The reality is still that solutions to our world’s true problems are invariably micro, […]
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With Leadership Must Come Accountability: U.S. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle Must Go!
22 Jul 2024
In August 2007, after my promotion to Colonel in the U.S. Air Force, I was blessed to do my Senior Developmental Education (usually War College) as an Air Force Fellow at the Brookings Institution, along with fellows from the Army, Navy, Coast Guard and CIA. After arriving at Brookings one morning, I was greeted (and […]
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I was recently in a classroom listening to another professor and students discuss woke, and part of the conversation correctly identified that often people don’t really have an idea of what they mean; woke is simply a pejorative label. And while there are good explanations of what woke is and what it is not (let […]
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Issue 1: The Nation’s Eyes Turn to Ohio
07 Aug 2023
Issue 1 will provide a foggy but fascinating window into culture war politics. The initiative, which will be voted on tomorrow by Ohio’s electorate, is technically about the process for amending the state constitution. Practically, Issue 1 is another front in our ever present social conflict. Let’s address both dimensions–the mechanics and the politics–in order. […]
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In the case of the Hollywood writers’ strike, who has the moral high ground? Many have seen the consistent refrain that Hollywood executives are taking advantage of poor, overworked writers via streaming culture changes and AI’s rise.* Hollywood studio executives are trying to cut costs to preserve profits in a new and changing environment for […]
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Tim Keller and the Political Moment
26 May 2023
The Gospel gives us the resources to love people who reject both our beliefs and us personally. Christians should think of how God rescued them. He did it not by taking power but by coming to earth, losing glory and power, serving and dying on a cross. How did Jesus save? Not with a sword […]
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Goodbye, Farewell, and Amen
23 May 2023
I love watching a good movie or TV show. While not overly creative myself, I thoroughly enjoy taking in someone else’s work of art to gain a greater understanding of his or her perspective, and these two mediums are amongst my favorite. My wife would readily tell you that I often think deeply about the […]
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I’ve often made the comment that when you see Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders basically saying the same thing on a position, you have to question it. In my case, I’m usually talking about their positions on restricting free trade. You could say that even a stopped clock is right twice per day, so maybe […]
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Is everybody making everything political?
02 Feb 2022
The answer, of course, is no. It is true that there are many Americans, both left and right, that are finding some large source of their purpose in engaging in the political process at some level. Even this blog is necessarily engaging in the political process as we try to shape ideas about public policy, […]
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How Equal are Women and Men?
27 Sep 2021
To say that Bereans are out of step with the times, and that we are, so to speak, “on the wrong side of history,” is axiomatic. We are not reflexively conservative, but we do begin with the premise that not everything that has gone on before is systematically wrong or evil. Indeed, we tend to […]
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