Unemployment as economic-spiritual indicator — April 2019 report
Series Note: Jobs are one of the most important aspects of a morally functioning economy. They help us serve the needs of our neighbors and lead to human flourishing both for the individual and munities. Conversely, not having a job can adversely affect spiritual and psychological well-being of individuals and families. Because unemployment is a spiritual problem, Christians in America need to understand and be aware of the monthly data on employment. Each month highlight thelatest numberswe need to know...
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China rewrites the Bible
It’s no secret that as the Chinese economy enters a slowdown, the Chinese government has been taking an ever-more authoritarian approach towards virtually every aspect of life in the People’s Republic. In this regard, few areas have received more attention than religion. This ranges from the imprisonment of anywhere between 800,000 and 2 million Uighur Muslims (something explored at length by leading Islam and liberty scholar Mustafa Akyol) to the burning and demolition of Protestant and Catholic churches. Things are,...
Game of Theories: Real business cycle
Note: This is post #115 in a weekly video series on basic economics. The “real” part of the real business cycle (RBC) refers to real shocks to an economy, specifically to supply shocks. As Tyler Cowen of Marginal Revolution University says, RBC is useful for plex supply shock, such as a sudden rise in oil prices. But it can also explain many of the economic downturns throughout human history. For instance, in ancient times when economies relied primarily on agriculture,...
The EU’s self-defeating digital tax
In today’s global economy, pany that provides a successful product or service can earn billions of dollars a year. Governments steal a greedy glance and ask how they can get their “fair share” of this money. The latest example is the EU attempting to create “tax harmonization” among its members as it imposes a digital tax on “Big Tech” firms. The proposal is currently stalled, as more fiscally responsible nations like Ireland object to the EU’s plan to tax tech...
National healthcare can’t fail if there are no goals
As the Brexit debacle monopolizes UK news, the government quietly released a consequential announcement: The National Health Service (NHS) is considering repealing requirements that emergency rooms in England treat or release patients within four hours. The new guidelines vindicate critics of single-payer health care, who say the government inevitably rations care, downgrades its own standards, and then declares victory. The UK’s goal of a four-hour wait in accident and emergency rooms (A&Es) is roughly twice as long as patients wait...
Finding common grace in a Ugandan refugee camp
Every day we receive innumerable blessings from God. We receive these blessings apart from our individual standing before God or our membership in any munity. These blessings are rooted in God’s creation itself. They are a form of what the Reformed theologian Abraham Kuyper called ‘Common Grace’: The divine covenant in the Mediator in turn has its background in the work of original creation, in the existence of the world, and in the life of our human race. As individuals...
Captain Marvel’s grit
The latest Marvel film has done well at the box office, and for good reason. It is a solid entry in the MCU, and an introduction to a new character that promises to be central to the ongoing narrative arc following Avengers: Infinity War (some spoilers follow). There are quite a few notable themes in Captain Marvel, and I’ll highlight a couple here. First, we learn a fair amount more about the Kree, the civilization introduced in Guardians of the...
Nihilism and mass murder: Christianity in reverse
Brazil was rocked last week by a deadly shootout in a high school in Suzano, a suburb of Sao Paolo. Two former students armed with a gun, crossbows and axes killed nine people and mitted suicide. Immediately, the media began another campaign against Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, leading people to believe that the massacre had something to do with his pro-gun policies. There is, of course, an elementary problem of logic in this argument: Bolsonaro assumed the presidency 63 days...
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If Panama Closes the Darién Gap, Would Evangelicals Care?
　　On May 5, Panamanians will vote for a new president. The outcome of this election may have consequences for far more than its 4.4 million residents; it could change the migration reality for the hundreds of thousands of people traveling from South America, Asia, and Africa who pass through the Central American country en route to the United States. 　　Leading...
Jul 12, 2026
If Panama Closes the Darién Gap, Would Evangelicals Care?
　　On May 5, Panamanians will vote for a new president. The outcome of this election may have consequences for far more than its 4.4 million residents; it could change the migration reality for the hundreds of thousands of people traveling from South America, Asia, and Africa who pass through the Central American country en route to the United States. 　　Leading...
Jul 12, 2026
Owning the Oceans
　　The fascination with the sea is as old as man. The famous cry—thalatta, thalatta—of Xenophon’s beleaguered 10,000 Greek soldiers (or of what remained of them) upon seeing the familiar waters of the Black Sea after returning from war, showed a loving familiarity with the sea. The Romans embraced the Mediterranean as their own sea—Mare Nostrum—even if they faced it with...
Jul 12, 2026
The Wisdom of Childlike Wonder
　　“He called a little child to him, and placed the child among them. And he said: ‘Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Therefore, whoever takes the lowly position of this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. And whoever welcomes one such child in...
Jul 12, 2026
Peter Viereck’s Unadjusted Conservatism
　　What future exists for American conservatism? As a lifelong conservative, I answer this question by looking to the past. The American conservative tradition has produced a host of luminaries since the 1952 publication of Russell Kirk’s The Conservative Mind, but there is one figure in particular that conservatives would do well to rediscover: poet and historian Peter Viereck (1916–2006). 　　Viereck...
Jul 12, 2026
Orwells Arresting Ambiguities
　　George Orwell said that Charles Dickens was an author well worth stealing, which is to say, attaching to one’s cause whatever it might be. If you can say Dickens would have thought likewise, you are claiming the approval not only of a genius, but of a man of deeply generous and humane nature (never mind any squalid revelations about his...
Jul 12, 2026
I’m Talking to You
　　Editor’s Note: Mitch Daniels, then Purdue University President, made these remarks during the university’sspring commencement ceremoniesthe weekend of May 13-15, 2022, in Purdue’s Elliott Hall of Music. 　　Greetings, friends, and welcome. I should say “Welcome back.” We are back in Elliott Hall, where Purdue spring commencements belong, for the first time in three years. And as I’ll tell you in...
Jul 12, 2026
Constitutional Government After Chevron?
　　By mid-summer, Chevron deference as we know it may be history. The Supreme Court could reform or even eliminate its forty-year-old doctrine that federal courts should generally defer to an agency’s reasonable interpretation of an ambiguous statute. 　　How would the end of Chevron deference affect our constitutional institutions? It’s far too soon to know—and not just because the Supreme Court...
Jul 12, 2026
Corruption, Centralization, and Commerce
　　In the 2004 film Collateral, silver-haired assassin Vincent (Tom Cruise) forces cab driver Max (Jamie Foxx) to taxi him to his various would-be targets throughout the night. In an early scene, an unsuspecting Max is patiently waiting outside when a dead body falls from a second-story window onto the hood of his cab. When Vincent returns to the scene and...
Jul 12, 2026
Winning the Culture Through Stories
　　Conservatives love to talk about the progressive movement’s efficacy at penetrating culture, dominating the spheres of everything from entertainment to sports to education. Over the decades, the far left has conquered the institutions and the right side of the aisle is just beginning to retaliate. Some say conservative values are making a comeback while others contend that Western Civilization is...
Jul 12, 2026
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