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Unity or unanimity at Reformed council?
Wholesale rejection of globalization should not be made into an article of the Christian faith. But this is precisely what the "Accra Confession" does.Europe: The unjust continent
In recent months, the European social model has been under the spotlight following Greece's economic meltdown and the fumbling efforts of European politicians to prop up other tottering European economies. To an unprecedented extent, the post-war European model's sustainability is being questioned. Even the New York Times has conceded something is fundamentally wrong with the model they and the American Left have been urging upon America for decades.Reappraising the Right
No longer can a single thread be traced from Burke, to Santayana, to T.S. Eliot as Kirk was able to do so expertly in The Conservative Mind. Instead of threads, tendrils of paleoconservatism, neoconservatism, compassionate conservatism, crunchy conservatism, libertarianism, Randianism, classical liberalism, small government advocates, tea partiers and even Blue Dog Democrats tangle and creep in all directions while still managing to squeeze into the conservative rubric.Poverty, capital and economic freedom
When poor countries grow rich, it rarely has anything at all to do with how many mouths they have to feed or the abundance of natural resources. Instead, across the globe, poor countries of all sizes, climates, and endowments begin to grow rich as two key factors increase.Missing the boat on the Tea Parties
One of the clearest lessons to emerge from the reactions surrounding the Tea Parties is just how ideological and polemical political discourse has become.Debt, credit and the virtuous life
Jack Cashill's new book, Popes and Bankers: A Cultural History of Credit and Debt, From Aristotle to AIG, traces the changing moral attitudes towards lending and borrowing in Western culture.Hans Küng’s Malthusian moment
Küng seems oblivious to the sociological fact that those Christian communities which have embraced paths similar to that which he advocates for Catholicism are in a state of terminal collapse.Will Tea Parties awaken America’s moral culture?
Are Tea Parties really seditious or do they instead invoke a genuine American tradition of protest — such as when civil rights leaders too made appeals to the Founding Fathers?Not celebrating communism’s collapse
America’s Religious Left, having invested decades in dialogue with and advocating accommodation of the Soviet Bloc, was flummoxed and uncelebratory about the momentous collapse of East European Communism in 1989-1990.Prophet Jim Wallis and the ecclesia of economic ignorance
Jim Wallis' new book, Rediscovering Values: On Wall Street, Main Street, and Your Street, piles on with the horde of Religious Left activists and others now demonizing Wall Street.Reading it wrong – again
Fred Siegel looks at just this problem in a new appreciation of cultural critic and iconoclast Bernard DeVoto’s three-decade campaign to rescue American letters from the perception that European aesthetics were superior to the homegrown variety.
