Matt’s Marvelous Mailbag seeks to provide marginally adequate answers to much better questions about politics, economics, social life, theology, or any potpourri you see fit to have answered. Send questions to mailbag.bereans@gmail.com. Well, it’s just three questions this week, but that’s more by choice than necessity as two of these turned into small essays on […]
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The Mailbag! – Vol. 25
06 May 2019
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Weekly Sage #26: James Burnham
03 May 2019
The Weekly Sage hopes to regularly bring brief profiles of key contributors to thought and faith before a Christian audience for historical education and awareness of valuable resources. James Burnham “The situation with Marxist ideology is the same as that with the leading capitalist ideologies. As we saw in connection with the latter, however, the […]
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Weekly Sage #24: Michael Polanyi
19 Apr 2019
The Weekly Sage hopes to regularly bring brief profiles of key contributors to thought and faith before a Christian audience for historical education and awareness of valuable resources. Michael Polanyi “I have spoken of our craving for understanding, and have mentioned the intellectual passion which impels us towards making ever closer contact with reality. These […]
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Part I is here: http://bereansatthegate.com/churchill-on-collectivism-and-the-limits-of-politics-part-i/ Winston Churchill was an outspoken critic of Communism as well as the milder Socialism that was a political force in Britain. He understood the difficulties presented by human nature for these political doctrines in a non-academic, wonderfully common sense way: human nature being what it is, Communism and Socialism are […]
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Weekly Sage #19: Irving Fisher
15 Mar 2019
The Weekly Sage hopes to regularly bring brief profiles of key contributors to thought and faith before a Christian audience for historical education and awareness of valuable resources. Irving Fisher “We have seen that all wealth and property imply prospective services or ‘desirable events.’ It is the desirability of these future expected services which gives […]
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Winston Churchill was an outspoken opponent of Russian Communism from the beginning, not only because he saw it as a threat to the British Empire, although that was true, but because he perceived that its principles were inimical to healthy human society. In 1920, for example, he wrote an article for the Illustrated Sunday Herald […]
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Weekly Sage #16: Hannah Arendt
22 Feb 2019
The Weekly Sage hopes to regularly bring brief profiles of key contributors to thought and faith before a Christian audience for historical education and awareness of valuable resources. Hannah Arendt “The philistine’s retirement into private life, his single-minded devotion to matters of family and career was the last, and already degenerated product of the bourgeoisie’s […]
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The Green New Deal: Absurdity & Threat
15 Feb 2019
I believe there is a general tacit agreement as to what most people would like to see in the culture and society in which they live. This is in general true of all people across cultures and across time. We want to live in a world that is free from the ravages and devastation of […]
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The Weekly Sage hopes to regularly bring brief profiles of key contributors to thought and faith before a Christian audience for historical education and awareness of valuable resources. Sometimes history brings together a special combination of resources and people that form a center of intellectual influence. The Weekly Sage will occasionally consider such “Schools” together. […]
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The Green War Economy
11 Feb 2019
This past Thursday Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC)’s Office released House Resolution 109 “Recognizing the duty of the Federal Government to create a Green New Deal”. According to the Resolution’s preamble many, if not all, contemporary socio-economic problems (insufficient provision of basic needs, wage stagnation, racial injustice, and a threat to national security, etc.) are caused or […]
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