I recently finished a book by Jason Brennan entitled Against Democracy (Princeton University Press, 2015) that I found intriguing. It might not sound glamorous but I think the topic is timely in light of our American love of democracy in its various forms, whether direct or representative. I don’t want to leave the impression that […]
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Democracy: Embrace or Re-think?
11 May 2017
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Puerto Rico is trying to use a bankruptcy provision approved last year to ameliorate its $123B debt. Now this is important for many reasons but I just want to focus on one. This bankruptcy, and the potential of stiffing the bondholders, will be beneficial in the long run. Why? I mean, we all think […]
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Speech: Its Value and Its Limits
29 Apr 2017
Several incidents have occurred recently at American colleges and universities that raise the question of where freedom of speech is headed today. Now let’s be clear. Not all speech is morally acceptable if we are serious about our Biblical commitments. Private Christian universities have good reason sometimes to create conditions for edifying and pure expression […]
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The Next Step Toward the Brave New World
02 Apr 2017
Wesley Smith wrote a short news item on “The Corner” in National Review Online, and linking a longer article in First Things, in which he mentions that in New Zealand and India, a few rivers have now been granted formal rights, allowing them, through their lawyers, to sue on behalf of themselves. They were legally […]
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Ted Poe, R-NC, and a House member of the Freedom Caucus, has quit the group, uttering these words among others: “saying no is easy, governing is hard.” This was in reference to the Caucus’s opposition to the American Health Care Act, which was pulled by Paul Ryan before a vote. Poe says he wants to […]
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The Examined Life–With Some Help
17 Feb 2017
Why do people still read Plato? Aristotle? The Bible? Augustine? Thomas Aquinas? John Locke? Immanuel Kant (well, maybe not so much)? What unifies them? It isn’t religion. Plato and Aristotle were most certainly not Christians. Augustine and Aquinas would have disagreed on the extent of man’s capacity to know and to will the good. The […]
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Immigration: A Partial Response
14 Feb 2017
My colleague Bert Wheeler wrote a recent piece on Bereans addressing more than one issue related to President Trump. The one that caught my attention was immigration policy. Bert expressed his concern (rightly) about Trump’s policies on that front. I assume from his use of the word “concerns” meant that he might or did have […]
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This blog is generally about current policies or issues in the news or that are still current to a degree in the realm of political economy, politics, and economics. I have been reading a really interesting book by Jonathan Wight, entitled Ethics in Economics: An Introduction to Moral Frameworks (Stanford University Press, 2015). Wight addresses […]
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I have made some scattered comments in recent months in relation to this past election cycle and the candidates for president. I think I made it clear that neither was anywhere close to an ideal. Especially was this true for Christians looking honestly at each candidate. I am sure we can all point to severe […]
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Political Virtue: It’s Time to Begin a Movement
24 Oct 2016
No matter who you plan to vote for I am seeing some things that really disturb me. One recent development is the new Wikileaks (not Wikipedia) trove of John Podesta showing communications between Democratic operatives and poll agencies in which the Democrats requested ways to manipulate polls by oversampling certain groups and under-sampling others. A […]
Bert Wheeler
Jeff Haymond
Marc Clauson
Mark Caleb Smith
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