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 […]

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. Sometimes history brings together a special combination of resources and people that form a center of intellectual influence. The Weekly Sage will occasionally consider such “Schools” together. […]

This past Thursday Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC)’s Office released House Resolution 109 “Recognizing the duty of the Federal Government to create a Green New Deal”. According to the Resolution’s preamble many, if not all, contemporary socio-economic problems (insufficient provision of basic needs, wage stagnation, racial injustice, and a threat to national security, etc.) are caused or […]

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.   I was watching the last VLOG, and, right towards the end, Dr. Wheeler mentioned that he would probably rebel against government much more […]

Its hard in my flesh not to smile at the ongoing self-destruction in the Democratic party in Virginia. I’ve long considered identity politics highly destructive to our country–essentially the Democratic Party has embraced as an organizing principle what the Federalist Papers warned as a serious danger, that of faction. And as that tendency toward faction […]

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. Sometimes history brings together a special combination of resources and people that form a center of intellectual influence. The Weekly Sage will occasionally consider such “Schools” together. […]

When I accepted a Fulbright Postgraduate Scholarship to study in Australia, I did not know exactly what to expect, having no experience with the land of kangaroos and koalas, nor any graduate-level training in history. The wonderful experience has brought many surprises, on which I will perhaps write more someday, but two of the most […]

2019 marks the 500th anniversary of the beginning of the conquest of Mexico by the Spanish conquistadors led by Hernán Cortés. Cortés displayed tremendous daring, resilience, and skill in the overthrow of a powerful civilization in such a short time with but a relative handful of men, but his legacy is ambiguous. He broke the […]