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Month: February 2014

Academics, Politics, and Business

  • Culture
February 28, 2014July 12, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

David Brooks has written a fascinating essay on how self-presentation in politics is very different from that in the academic world, and how Michael Ignatieff came to grief in Canada finding this out the hard way. I don’t feel the […]

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It’s a Consensus World, After All?

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February 25, 2014July 12, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

We often speak of our era as a very polarized age.  I will demur.  First, I remember 1968 in America, and the polarization and hate between cultures then was a lot worse than it is now, with actual riots and […]

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Two Theories of a Lasting Marriage

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February 22, 2014June 8, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Reading the Sunday New York Times always fertilizes the imagination, for good or ill. Today they had a psychologist named Eli J. Finkel writing about how since 1965 we have been in the era of the “self-expressive marriage,” which is […]

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Why Does Talk About “Evangelism” Make Me Nervous?

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February 20, 2014July 5, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

At an event I was at recently I heard about a new effort to get Christian colleges united around the concept of ‘evangelism’.  Well, fine.  Jesus desires that people in all cultures be brought to Him and taught to do […]

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The Last Freedom (and its Relationship to the First)

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February 18, 2014July 3, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World seems, for the most part, to be closer to the future we are facing in the West than George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four.  I do think that parts of Orwell’s vision are still important, however; in […]

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“Spoiled Rich Kids” and “Ghetto Gangsters”

  • Culture
February 6, 2014August 15, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Trustfunders like myself are accused of a lot. We are accused of being ‘spoiled’, whatever that is. Some of us take the route of a Paris Hilton, others of us follow the rather ostentatious simplicity of the so-called ‘trustafarian’. But […]

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After a Century, Why is the San Francisco Bay Area Kicking our Butt Now?

  • California
February 2, 2014July 5, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

I was young in the early Sixties, when the cultural rivalry between Los Angeles and San Francisco was strong and active. Jack Smith, for Los Angeles, and Herb Caen, for San Francisco, used to feud regularly in their newspaper columns […]

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I was saddened to learn about the death last summer of the Evangelical Christian activist and author Ron Sider (1939–2022). I’ve always found his ideas thought-provoking and have agreed with him in somewhat unexpected ways: https://howardahmansonjr.com/2023/01/ronald-j-sider-1939-2022-on-a-most-conscientious-believer/

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Despite weaknesses and economic errors, Ron Sider was a true believer; he didn't care about being ‘trendy’, ‘cool’, or appealing to any establishment, whether the ‘woke’ establishment of our society or the bourgeois establishment of Evangelical churches: https://howardahmansonjr.com/2023/01/ronald-j-sider-1939-2022-on-a-most-conscientious-believer/

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Ronald J. Sider (1939-2022): On a Most Conscientious Believer: https://howardahmansonjr.com/2023/01/ronald-j-sider-1939-2022-on-a-most-conscientious-believer/

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