Tuesday marks the end of the 2018 midterm election cycle. Political scientists hesitate to say things like, “Donald Trump is on the ballot” when he is actually, you know, not on the ballot. We tend to see congressional elections as local affairs, driven more by statewide dynamics than the occupant of the White House. At […]
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Mid-Term Elections 2018: Part 2
05 Nov 2018
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The Weekly Sage #2: Raymond Aron
02 Nov 2018
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. Raymond Aron “Why is it so difficult to evolve an ideology, in the sense of a total system of interpretation and action? For contemporary societies, scientific and […]
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The Weekly Sage: Bertrand de Jouvenel
26 Oct 2018
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. Bertrand de Jouvenel – “arbitrary Power, swept on by the passions of the mob and swayed by the ardours of the holders of office, lacking both rule […]
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Mid-term elections are typically rough for the President’s party. Below are some figures that simply lay out results in mid-terms between 1946 and 2014. The first figure looks at results in the U.S. House. Some things jump out quickly. There is a significant amount of variability, but nearly all of it is in negative territory. […]
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Hat Tip to David French over at National Review. But its worth listing here too. You probably have heard that Mrs. Clinton says Democrats shouldn’t be civil to Republicans, since they (R’s) are trying to destroy everything that D’s believe in. Eric Holder, in a campaign rally, suggested Mrs. Obama’s famous call, “they go low, […]
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Kavanaugh Part 3: Bereans VLOG (10/8/2018)
09 Oct 2018
Greetings! We have what we think is a final vlog on Brett Kavanaugh’s SCOTUS nomination. Today we discuss the cultural implications of the nomination and a few other tidbits. As always, leave questions below and see the actual video in the site plug-in.
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Jeff Flake, Republican Senator from Arizona, was once again the man of the moment, as he has often been during the past two years. One of the most persistent Trump critics in the upper chamber, Flake has become a celebrity of sorts, and sometimes a media darling. All that vanished last week when he became […]
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Bill Cosby as a Lesson for Our Political Moment
26 Sep 2018
I grew up in prime Bill Cosby years. When I was quite young, I watched Fat Albert, the cartoon where Cosby gave a voice to a memorable cast of characters. “Hey, Hey, Hey” was a constant catchphrase for me and my friends. Later, I watched The Cosby Show, one of the most beloved and influential […]
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As suggested in last week’s post, acrimony and ugliness continue to be the norm as the week progressed, unfortunately to include some comments in this blog. Predictably, those with preconceived biases in favor of or against Mr. Kavanaugh generally weighed in with moral cases that buttressed their positions. For those generally in favor of Mr. […]
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Who is in Charge of the White House?
05 Sep 2018
The White House has been rocked by two accounts this week, both of which make an uncomfortable allegation: President Trump is not really in charge of the White House. Bob Woodward’s explosive new book, Fear, portrays an executive in a perpetual state of turmoil with senior staffers routinely thwarting the President’s desires through either inaction, […]
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