This is a response to Doug Wilson’s post, The Spiritual Drive Train. I put it here rather than as a comment to his post because of the length of my response. He suggests that knowing what not to do is…
The Victory of Christ
Rodney Stark has written another great book, The Victory of Reason: How Christianity Led to Freedom, Capitalism, and Western Success (Random House, 2005). In recent years, a number of important books have offered a counter-narrative to the version of European…
Financial Crisis Stimulus Hindsight
In hindsight, I’d like to offer an alternative analysis of the Great Recession (2008/2009): Real estate tycoons created a way to sell swamp land across the world. They bundled the swamp into the lawns of regular homes, which they sold…
Health Care/Insurance Reform
Why should government or businesses provide health care or retirement benefits at all? Think of Social Security: it began after the Great Depression as a way to provide for people so that such a situation would not happen again. People…
How Socialism Works
Professor Is A Genius An economics professor at a local college made a statement that he had never failed a single student before, but had once failed an entire class. That class had insisted that Obama’s socialism worked and that…
Tribe Mentality
According to Miriam Keith in a recent article in the Marietta Times, “Tribe Helps Overcome Depression,” which follows the lead of Bob Murray and Alicia Fortinberry in their book, Creating Optimism: A Proven Seven-Step Program for Overcoming Depression, a loyal…