So notes CNBC yesterday. We’ve already highlighted the gross inequity of forcing people that never were a party to a loan to assume the payments of others (as in here, here, and here), in many cases people that make far less money than the beneficiaries of student loans, so I’m not highlighting that this morning. […]
Archives
-
Headline: “Biden administration plans to make sweeping changes to ‘broken’ student loan system”
07 Jul 2022
-
The Educated Vs. Consequences
26 Dec 2021
Once again, President Biden pushed back student loan payments due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this time until May 2022. As Omicron surges, the White House reversed course on its assurances that payments would not be deferred any longer. However, pressure from those who want all student debt cancelled appears to have won the day, so […]
-
For The Love of Thinking
23 Aug 2021
A new academic year has begun, and with its arrival comes excitement and anticipation of all the potential growth that lies ahead in our educational endeavors. If I could put one book into the hands of many Christian students at this time it would be A.G. Sertillanges’ short work The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, […]
-
This past week, dear reader, you may have noticed the kerfuffle in the news about Simone Biles, especially if you’ve been following the Tokyo Olympics. Biles, a many-time national and world champion gymnast from Columbus, Ohio, has set enough new marks of excellence for American gymnasts that some pre-Olympics commentary mentioned her as the greatest […]
-
The Equality Act and Religious Freedom
25 Feb 2021
The Equality Act is a direct attack on religious liberty. The legislation, now working its way through the House, stands little chance of becoming law, but if passed, it would amend elements of the Civil Rights Act to include “sex (including sexual orientation and gender identity)” as a protected legal class, alongside race, color, religion, […]
-
How to Win Votes and Influence Students
27 Nov 2020
I keep reading headlines about different plans to eliminate student debt. Unfortunately, most of these plans seem to be attempts to buy votes from the college educated instead of working to fix the problem. It seems that Biden’s plan is to cancel $10,000 of everyone’s debt and more if you work for the Federal Government. […]
-
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 […]
-
The Mailbag! – Vol. 19
18 Mar 2019
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. I was talking with a friend this week about Star Wars, and we came to the obvious conclusion that John Williams’s music is […]
-
Weekly Sage #17: Henry James
01 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. Henry James “This small struggle sprang not a little, in its way, from the same impulse that had now carried him across to Notre Dame; the impulse […]
-
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. […]
Bert Wheeler
Jeff Haymond
Marc Clauson
Mark Caleb Smith
Tom Mach