Which is why I’m posting it on a public website…
Today (The fact that this came in on the day before the 4th seems very strategic, especially considering the appeals to nationalism within.) I got a letter from Advancing Native Missions.
They say, amongst other things:
Please forgive the urgent, confidential nature of this letter. But I do [...]
In conversations about difficult topics it is important to share definitions. Capitalism is a word of many meanings.
In this conversation I lay out a defense of what I consider pure Capitalism and how Christians ought to behave among themselves, and what positions they ought to advocate – if any – in public policy debates. I [...]
Kids often fight over things which were gifts from their parents.
Suppose I slice a cake into several (unequal) pieces, and distribute them to my children. Now, this is cake mind you, not bread, not water. It is a pure bonus. Dessert. So I dole out the cake. It is quite likely that an argument will [...]
Sometimes I take a moment from complaining about the rise of the state, and the mistakes of Christiandom, to recognize how good we have it. I mean all of us. Everywhere in the world. People today are better off than they were 20 years ago period. I’ve been driving my grandmother’s hand-me-down 1983 Chevy Malibu [...]
I was watching Disney’s animated Cinderella with my daughters Christmas afternoon. Apart from the problems inherent to any fairy-tale, especially those involving a privileged royal class, I began wondering about the relevance of income inequality in this story. Cinderella lives in a large mansion with her evil stepmother and her two wicked stepsisters. She [...]
Are humans only rational? Or are we egalitarian? Might it be rational to be egalitarian?
Ken Watts at the Daily Mull recounts:
The experiment was performed by Arthur Kennelly and Edmund Fantino:
Individuals were given a choice:
A. You are given 5 dollars and another person is given 3 dollars. or,
B. You are given [...]