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Ronald J. Sider (1939-2022): On a Most Conscientious Believer

  • Economics,
  • Religion
January 3, 2023January 3, 2023
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Despite his weaknesses and economic errors, Ron Sider was a true believer, one who did not care about being ‘trendy’ or ‘cool’ or appealing to any establishment, whether the ‘woke’ establishment of our society or the bourgeois establishment of the […]

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Croquet, Golf, and Conspicuous Consumption

  • Economics
February 10, 2022February 13, 2022
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Croquet and golf both involve hitting a ball from place to place with a club or a mallet.  The difference between them is that golf uses a lot more reserved space and takes a lot more time.  Last weekend, for […]

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Renting as Borrowing

  • Culture,
  • Economics
September 7, 2020September 1, 2020
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Increasingly, the renting of an apartment has become treated more and more like taking out a loan, as if to buy a house or something else.  The same demands of ‘established credit’ are now made.  And I have seen no […]

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On the Urbanist Classic, “Crabgrass Frontier,” by Kenneth T. Jackson

  • Culture,
  • Economics
May 12, 2020July 7, 2020
Author: Howard Ahmanson

One of the classic books on the history of suburbia is Kenneth Jackson’s Crabgrass Frontier. It came out in 1985, two years before my personal favorite, Bourgeois Utopias, by Robert Fishman.  This book notice discusses Crabgrass Frontier in view of […]

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Three New Testament Roots of Economic Liberty

  • Economics,
  • Religion
May 20, 2019
Author: Howard Ahmanson

We do not often think that Jesus Christ and the New Testament justifies capitalism.  To the extent that capitalism means greed and self-indulgence, I should think not!  Greed and self-indulgence are root human sins and will be manifested in any […]

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Dealing with Bangladesh: A Plan for Adaptation

  • Culture,
  • Economics
December 6, 2018May 19, 2020
Author: Howard Ahmanson

In the Appendixes to The Lord of the Rings, we learn that the Rohanians came from the north at a critical point to assist Gondor in one of its wars.  Out of gratitude, Gondor gave them a stretch of its territory […]

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An Addendum to the Manifesto: My Youth as a Deficit Hawk – Howard Ahmanson

  • Economics
October 17, 2016December 9, 2021
Author: Howard Ahmanson

It occurred to me that during the first period in my life that I was a conservative, which was in my youth, I was motivated mainly by deficit hawkery.  I was ten in the year that Nixon ran against Kennedy, […]

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The Working Class Might be Shooting Itself in the Foot by Being Anti-Free Trade

  • Economics
March 21, 2016August 27, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

One of the explanations of the rise of Donald Trump is the concern by his working class followers about free trade, as well as immigration.  After thinking of just how and where their standard of living is declining, I wonder […]

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The Gasoline Tax: Charles Krauthammer Breaks with Republican Orthodoxy

  • Economics
March 14, 2016July 17, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Charles Krauthammer, generally regarded as a conservative writer, declared more than a year ago that he had been for a gasoline tax increase of $1 a gallon for 32 years.  That would be, if I calculate right, since 1983. I’ve […]

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Which Taxes to Raise – A Revision

  • Economics
February 27, 2015July 17, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

In earlier posts I suggested that the top bracket income tax could be raised to up to 40%, as in the Clinton era, without hurting government revenues or damaging the economy.  It still might not, but I have decided that […]

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