Coronavirus and the Lisbon Earthquake of 1755
…this, I was reminded of a passage in Luke’s Gospel that provides some perspective – from Jesus. There were some present at that very time who told [Jesus] about the…
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Samuel Francis and the 1990s Shaping of the Trumpian Mind
…Brendan Dougherty. The rise of Trumpism was foreseen by a ‘paleoconservative’ or ‘proto-alt-right’ writer named Samuel Francis in a March 1996 essay, “From Household to Nation: The Middle American Populism…
The Adams Map: A Different Spectrum, A Challenge That Still Speaks to Us
…the Progressive corner, for it illustrates the values of so-called ‘progressives’ and the predominant values of what I call the New West countries, Canada, and Northwestern Europe. I am tempted…
Things You Don’t Have to be a Libertarian to Believe
…of shortages and excesses, contain the information that can drive the proper amount of production. Thus a ‘planned economy’ must fail. Government cannot really plan the economy ten years from…
Don’t Blame the Boomers for Everything
…of the universe, and of the mystery of human life,” was born in 1936, five years after the noted ‘rebel without a cause’, James Dean, and one year after Elvis…
A Recent History of ‘Skinny Fat’ or How Fit Were People in the Old Days?
Recently in an airport, I saw and bought a rather provocative issue of Scientific American. The cover declared that humans ‘evolved’ to exercise, while the most similar forms of life…
The Real Significance of the Tithe
The tithe has been a matter of controversy in Jewish and Christian circles, I assume, since it was first promulgated. [Islam, instead of 10% of income, proposes a contribution of…
Three New Testament Roots of Economic Liberty
…it, but it would be an expensive way of solving the world’s hunger problem. Scarcity is a real and tenacious problem of human existence. So when we talk about ‘justice‘…
The USA: First World, Third World, or Western World?
…of the Monroe Doctrine was to protect the new republics in South America from Spain. Shortly afterwards these republics decided they wanted to be protected from the United States.” Of…
Dick Dale: 1937-2019
…the very beginning; Duane Eddy, one of its exemplars, was probably Arizona’s leading musical light during that time. And the Ventures, from the Pacific Northwest and remote from surf culture…