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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Immigration: A Partial Response
14 Feb 2017
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The Liberal Arts in the Christian Context
05 Feb 2017
Leland Ryken, Professor of English Emeritus at Wheaton College, has a fine track record of scholarship over a career that began in 1968. He has written thoughtfully about integration in his field, among other topics, but in particular I encourage you to focus on his well known essay entitled “The Student’s Calling.” In it he […]
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The City of Man
15 Jan 2017
I am sitting in the San Antonio airport, waiting for my flight back home, reflecting on an excellent Values and Capitalism retreat here and–the subject of this blog–my walk yesterday. My goal was to walk to a bookstore about two miles from my downtown hotel. I had mapped it out using Googlemaps and set out […]
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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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Fake News: Hint, this blog is not fake news
07 Dec 2016
Well, it appears that at least some people have now found a new pet peeve, so-called “fake news,” to be useful in attacking news stories they don’t like. The term of course is new, but the fact is not new at all. Various media throughout the centuries have engaged in propagandistic writing in various forms, […]
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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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The Real Battle
11 Oct 2016
The revelation about Donald Trump’s vulgar and pretty ugly statements about women has certainly generated heated discussion. I am not here to either defend his statements or to persuade anyone to vote for him. I will merely state the obvious: Christian voters find themselves in quite a quandary. On the one hand, I am convinced […]
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The Limits of Politics and Virtue
04 Oct 2016
Both my Bereans colleagues and the many commenters have hit upon a fundamental tension that runs beneath all the talk about whom to vote for this election. Though they might not have realized it they have been raising the very old and very crucial question of whether a nation needs virtuous political leaders to survive […]
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It has been pointed out by historians and journalists that political campaigns have always been a little bit or a lot vicious, with a good deal of “over the top” rhetoric. Witness the Adams-Jefferson campaign of 1800. It was pretty overheated on both sides. But I see something different at work now among liberals, or, […]
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The Misdirection of Life
08 Sep 2016
In 2004 the band Straylight Run produced a song called “Existentialism On Prom Night” about a young couple that made the most of evening. “Sing me something soft, sad and delicate, or loud and out of key,” they wrote, “Sing me anything, we’re glad for what we’ve got, done with what we’ve lost, our whole […]