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Renting as Borrowing

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  • 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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More on Christian Faith and Land Use: The Issue of Profiling

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August 31, 2020January 4, 2021
Author: Howard Ahmanson

The big moral issue behind intentional racism, classism, and the like is the issue of ‘profiling’.  Should we assume that, because of people’s appearance, color, or income, they would be more or less likely to do certain things?  Or be […]

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What My Christian Faith Brings to My Views on Land Use

  • Culture,
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August 8, 2020September 18, 2020
Author: Howard Ahmanson

I have attempted to think through the implications of the teaching of the Scripture, and of the Christian faith, for land use and land use law.  One issue for me is that a lot of land use law in our […]

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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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Does the Working Class Think It Can’t ‘Afford’ to Raise Their Children in a Christian Environment Any More?

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  • Religion
April 9, 2020May 27, 2020
Author: Howard Ahmanson

In recent years we have heard how Christianity, and even Pentecostalism, seem to be losing their grip on the working classes, at least in white American communities.  Robert Putnam, author of Bowling Alone, Charles Murray, who wrote Coming Apart, and […]

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The Real Significance of the Tithe

  • Religion
May 22, 2019May 19, 2020
Author: Howard Ahmanson

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 2.5% of one’s wealth per year.] Early in my Christian […]

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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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Reno vs. Sirico: A Debate on Economic Justice

  • Politics
November 22, 2017August 27, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

I rarely link to videos, much less watch them myself.  But this one I actually did.  It contains a debate between two scholars on economic justice, both of them, interestingly enough, identified as ‘conservative’.  They are Rusty Reno, editor of First […]

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On Feeling Guilty for Ordering Stuff Online

  • Culture
June 16, 2017August 27, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

I like ordering things online and not having to hunt for them in stores.  And sometimes the alternative is being eliminated.  Just like paying cash or taking public transit, live stores, especially bookstores, are disappearing.  There is only one major […]

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

  • Economics
October 17, 2016August 27, 2018
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 argument is that certain kinds of political ideas that are “hateful” are like pornography in that they are inherently tempting to fallen humanity. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/06/opinion/trump-lies-free-speech.html

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Of course, I’d call Critical Race Theory “hate speech,” too. What to do with that? https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/06/opinion/trump-lies-free-speech.html

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