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 [...]
Who is worth more: a person alive 100 years ago, a person alive today, a person alive 100 years from now, or a person who is never born, or a person who has always existed?
Often times arguments about sustainability imply that there is some objective standard by which having fewer people today, and fewer people [...]
My arguments for open immigration have solid economic support. Lant Pritchett, a Harvard Economist, has a book out entitled Let Their People Come (download it for free here), which makes a similar argument.
But for a brief introduction check out this Reason interview with him.
In response to many who doubt the political feasability of more open [...]
There is no right side in the Israeli – Palestinian conflict. What gives any government legitimacy to exist? There is no standard for answering this question in Scripture (if you find one, please email it to me at ndsnow@gmail – those who quote Rom 13 need not apply) because there is no support for the [...]
Our church was visited by a pastor who works with International Justice Mission (IJM) this morning. He spoke of their efforts to rescue oppressed people out of slavery and forced prostitution around the world.
To me, these are the least of these. They ought to be absolute top of the church’s list of people we [...]
There are various estimations of what the war in Iraq has cost the USG so far.
Here is one running calculation ($580 billion), and another ($618 billion).
This report puts the number at $900 billion. Stiglitz said $3 trillion earlier this year.
Let’s take that $900 billion number, just for illustration.
The population of Iraq is 27.5 million.
Divide $900 [...]
My comment over at Young Anabaptist Radicals:
As believers, how can we even use the term immigrant? To do so recognizes a state’s authority to determine arbitrary borders enforced at the point of a gun. No. Boundary lines among individuals are legitimate, the result of mutual agreement about what is “mine” or “yours” delineated to reduce [...]
country for immigrants.
I have the pdf of a book by Lant Pritchett sitting on my desktop somewhere. He talks about global poverty and migration from what I take to be the most ethical angle available to us. Reason does a bang up interview with him here on his new book, and I just [...]
Yes, I’m wearing my Murray Rothbard: Enemy of the State T-shirt today, why do you ask?…
This woman was held by government authorities, shackled, and imprisoned for staying a few days late on a previous vacation to the US from Iceland. She came back recently to go shopping in New York. You can [...]