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The Gerontocratic Democracy of Old Africa, and Gerontocracy in Our Own Time 

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May 22, 2020May 27, 2020
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Young people have always probably chafed against their elders.  But in Africa, a gerontocratic system was instituted, which at least frustrated the development of a hereditary elite.  And we are not without elements of gerontocracy in our own society.  I […]

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Some Thoughts About ‘Identities’

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

In the classical Christian church we hear much about our identity in Christ.  We also have a host of other identities or roles: parent or child in a family; worker in or owner of an organization; a particular church, denomination, […]

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On Political Trust and Media Attention

  • Culture,
  • Politics
June 7, 2019May 19, 2020
Author: Howard Ahmanson

For a long time, we have spoken of elections, in which a President is not on the ballot, as ‘off-year elections’.  I think the Founders would have been horrified by such a notion.  The Congress, they would have thought, should […]

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Why We Need Regionalism

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May 9, 2019September 4, 2020
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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The Sin of Entitlement

  • Religion
August 22, 2018January 4, 2021
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Early in my Christian life I was struck by a fascinating quote in C. S. Lewis’ Screwtape Letter #21.  On the sin of peevishness, he wrote, Men are not angered by mere misfortune but by misfortune conceived as injury.  And […]

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We are now a Third World country, officially. These things might happen in Latin America, not here. And I don’t think these people are Latin American illegals. https://apple.news/AItPPC1R6Q7OkboMHGCF3jg

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