As a Fulbright scholar recently returned from 9 months studying Australian politics, I eagerly awaited the results of this past Saturday’s federal election down under. (By the way, Australians think weekend elections are one of the many improvements they made to representative government which the United States ignores to its own harm.) Before the election, […]
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The Mailbag! – Vol. 27
20 May 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. Ready for some behind the scenes? I, as a duly ordained contributor to this blog, get to see which posts are upcoming/in the […]
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The Mailbag! – Vol. 26
13 May 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. Well, summer is just about underway for me. Grad classes are ending, the sun is shining longer, and the festivities are beginning once […]
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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 #25: Mario Vargas Llosa
26 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. Mario Vargas Llosa “’No such luck. There aren’t any thugs abroad, what with this cold,’ Shorty said, rubbing his hands together again. ‘The only madmen out tonight […]
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The Mueller Report Tells Us What We Already Know
20 Apr 2019
The Mueller Report was finally released Thursday and it will do little to change anyone’s mind about Donald Trump or American politics. This is a testament to our current discourse, which is one part tribalism and one part laziness. The tribalism, of course, is all about defending or attacking “our guy” or “their guy.” Facts […]
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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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More on Socialism and Democrats
18 Apr 2019
Tuesday night during my introduction at our Freedom to Flourish event, The Christian Imperative for Entrepreneurship, I pointed out why defense of free markets is still such a relevant task today. I suggested that given one of our major political parties is having an identity crisis over whether it should support socialism makes this a great issue to think about. […]
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The Mailbag! – Vol. 23
15 Apr 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. Before we begin, I’d just like to say A+ on the comments section last week. Maybe that’s an odd thing to congratulate, but […]
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Weekly Sage #23: Jacques Ellul
12 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. This Weekly Sage was an audience suggestion, so thanks go to Theophilus for the inspiration! Jacques Ellul “In planning it is very difficult to distinguish clearly between […]