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Building on Greenfields

  • Culture
December 9, 2021December 9, 2021
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Some say that one of the solutions to our housing problem [indeed, their favorite solution] is building on land that has not been built on before.  There are a lot of issues surrounding this, however.  There are two ways of […]

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

  • Culture,
  • Politics,
  • Religion
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,
  • Politics
August 8, 2020August 30, 2022
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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Which the Ideology, and Which the Coalition?

  • Politics,
  • Religion
May 18, 2020December 9, 2021
Author: Howard Ahmanson

The definitions of ‘Republican’ and ‘Democrat’, and even ‘conservative’ and ‘liberal’, seem to dance in circles.  Even the nature of the parties shifts over time.  One is an ideology, the other a coalition, they say.  But even that fact tends […]

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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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Things You Don’t Have to be a Libertarian to Believe

  • Politics
November 13, 2019December 9, 2021
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Libertarians have much to contribute to the discussions of social justice.  But their main contributions – rule of law, opposition to cronyism, ‘by right’ land use, the problem of planning and knowledge, the issue of ‘public choice’ or how we […]

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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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Why We Need Regionalism

  • Culture
May 9, 2019December 9, 2021
Author: Howard Ahmanson

In our time, politics and culture are increasingly oriented to the national scale on the one hand, and the immediate neighborhood on the other.  A book, The Increasingly United States, by  Daniel J. Hopkins, highlights this.  However, in my view, besides […]

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A Conference Held to Honor my Father, Howard F. Ahmanson Sr.: “WWHD — What Would Howard Do?”

  • California
August 24, 2018October 1, 2019
Author: Howard Ahmanson

The “WWHD Conference — What Would Howard Ahmanson, Sr., Do?” — was held August 1, 2018, the year marking the 50th anniversary of my father’s death.  I decided I wanted to sponsor it, mostly to honor him. In the tumultuous year […]

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Keep Health Workers in Line

  • Culture
March 13, 2018August 27, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Here is an article about the misbehavior of employees at a residential-care facility.  The elderly residents are not the problem.  The sort of people who work there, however, seem to be not well-behaved.  The residents should work with the company […]

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