The Bullington Diatribe Chronicles will run occasionally for the amusement of some, the facepalming of many others, and the inconvenience of all. The following is satire….obviously. Media outlets, airport travelers, and shrubberies everywhere are waiting with bated breath as the Mueller investigation prepares to drop after a roughly two year incubation period inside the egg […]

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. Henry James “This small struggle sprang not a little, in its way, from the same impulse that had now carried him across to Notre Dame; the impulse […]

It was hard for me not to geek out yesterday. I teach Money & Financial Markets in the spring, and we mostly focus on traditional banking texts with a special look at the financial crisis. Seldom do we get to the specific monetary theories–Austrian, Post-Keynesian or other heterodox approaches. But the wisdom of youth, as […]

The Senate voted on the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act yesterday, Monday, February 25. The Act, sponsored by Sen. Ben Sasse (R., Neb.) failed to receive the required 60 votes needed to overcome a legislative filibuster. Other than democratic senators from Alabama, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia, the vote followed a strict party line with a […]

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.   Alright, kiddos. We’re back, and we’ve got questions in need of resolution. It’s a bit of a lighter week on the whole, but […]

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. Hannah Arendt “The philistine’s retirement into private life, his single-minded devotion to matters of family and career was the last, and already degenerated product of the bourgeoisie’s […]

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, my friends, I have had a relatively action packed week, and the ole mailbag just got pushed lower and lower on the […]

Amazon is up first. It’s amazing that I actually have some agreement with AOC–why should we be subsidizing the dominant firm in the world? This has been interesting and illustrative as some politicians think that how you create good jobs in your area is to bribe a specific firm with special favors. Gov Cuomo and […]

Today, President Donald J. Trump (R) declared a national emergency due to the southern border. His decree came not long after signing a spending bill that included money to secure the border. Let that sink in for a moment. Trump is relying on the National Emergencies Act (1976), which was an effort to reign in […]

I believe there is a general tacit agreement as to what most people would like to see in the culture and society in which they live. This is in general true of all people across cultures and across time. We want to live in a world that is free from the ravages and devastation of […]