As quoted by F.A. Hayek in his 1956 Preface to The Road to Serfdom, De Tocqueville described the process of government enslaving a people in servitude: The will of man is not shattered but softened, bent and guided; men are seldom forced by it to act, but they are constantly restrained from acting.  Such a […]

Behold, I am sending you out as sheep in the midst of wolves, so be wise as serpents and harmless as doves (Matthew 10:16)  Part 1* The people of God are called to be “salt” in order to preserve the world from decay, and “light” (Mt. 5:14; Acts 13:47) in order to focus everyone’s gaze […]

As Christian political economists, your Berean bloggers are neither conservative nor liberal (in the classic sense), but rather a combination of both.  And while there is nary a drop of modern liberal blood in our bones, we nonetheless appreciate modern liberalism’s discontent with the status quo, often agreeing with their ends, even though almost always […]

Two very important constitutional cases were argued yesterday and today before the United States Supreme Court.  Just as an aside, I tried to get in yesterday to hear oral arguments for Bond v. US and was actually about 45th in line, but still didn’t make the cut.  That shows both how important the cases are […]

Alan Greenspan was being interviewed about his new book The Map and the Territory in Time magazine recently and responded to the question, “Knowing what you know now, what would you have done differently during your time as chairman of the Fed?”  His response was in part, “I always knew debt was important.  If I […]

We see it every day, a newspaper article or news report about what the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has done or might do to further regulate what it considers to be pollution.  Most recently President Obama issued a statement to his agencies that he would soon be addressing global warming through some type of Federal […]

Faith abhors the really contradictory; to maintain the really contradictory is to deny God.  Faith adores the apparently contradictory; to adore the apparently contradictory is to adore God as one’s creator and final interpreter. What has this got to do with political economy?  I’m not sure.  But it is such an awesome quote to remind […]

Jim Geraghty is one of my daily reads as I scan the web for news and notes.* Today, he offers a devastating list of President Obama’s promises regarding the Affordable Care Act contrasted with the current realities. Here is an excerpt: Obama said, on September 26, “Premiums are going to be different in different parts […]

Orson Scott Card wrote Ender’s Game in 1985. The novel quickly entered the science fiction canon, winning both the Hugo and Nebula awards, and Card joined luminaries like Asimov, Heinlein, Herbert, and Dick. Bringing Ender’s Game to film presented many challenges. After nearly 30 years in the development wilderness, technology finally caught up to Card’s […]

Since it is the Lord’s Day and since this blog deals with the Christian view of things political, economic and cultural, it seems appropriate to give this quote from one of the great theologians, political leaders and statesmen, Abraham Kuyper: “There is not a square inch in the whole domain of our human existence over […]