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The (Economic?) Case for Babies
I’m in the market for babies and, based on the research, it’s prime time to be having them. Happily married, financially stable, and with a happiness quotient that should make the rich and famous...
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The Problem of Beck
Over at his blog, Denny Burk highlights a brief video detailing why he does not care for Glenn Beck’s politics, even though Beck, like Burk presumably, is an economic conservative. And on this issue,...
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Wallis vs. Brooks: The Debate that Wasn’t.
Capitalism may not have a soul, but working relations between Jim Wallis and Arthur Brooks might have a future. The event last Thursday at Wheaton College turned more tea party (of the proper variety)...
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Utopia and Capitalist Christianity
Dr. Craig Carter was gracious enough to respond to my write-up of the Wallis-Brooks non-throwdown. Excerpts and brief replies follow. What does it mean for society to be “consumerist” or...
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A few thoughts on Wealth Inequality
What sort of problem is wealth inequality, if it is a problem at all? That’s the question that’s been ably posed to me by a commenter, who wrote the following: wealth distribution is more unequal in...
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The (A)Morality of Material Resources
Following up on yesterday’s musings about the proper distribution of material resources, I thought I’d walk through a bit more O’Donovan for us all. A lengthy section, no doubt, but one worth sitting...
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Poverty, the Limits of Materialism, and George MacDonald
Christianity Today recently put together a peculiarly insufficient list of ways to help the poor that was ably and summarily criticized by Peter Greer, whose work with Hope International stands...
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The Places Markets Shouldn’t Go
Michael Sandel on the moral limits of markets: These examples illustrate a broader point: some of the good things in life are degraded if turned into commodities. So to decide where the market...
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Man, Models and the Markets: Why Theology Has Something to Say About Economics
Ben Bernanke has gone soft. The chairman of the Federal Reserve said this summer that economics should “understand and promote the enhancement of well-being.” His fellow economists have long worked...
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Stability and “Creative Destruction” in the Home and Economy
Ross Douthat, from a column that is in the running for the best of the year: What unites all of these stories is the growing failure of America’s local associations — civic, familial, religious — to...
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Social Justice Reconsidered: Report from the Philadelphia Society
I recently sat in on the Philadelphia Society’s annual meeting, an extended examination of the term “social justice.” In some ways, I like the term, given the way it is often used to remind us that...
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Why ‘The Family’ Matters in Economics
Nick Schulz is frustrated. He’s frustrated that economists talk about the role of institutions in the American economy, yet ignore the most fundamental one of them all: the family. With a career built...
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Why Young Evangelicals should Support Hobby Lobby
The news yesterday that the Supreme Court is going to hear the Hobby Lobby case momentarily brought the question of religious liberty back to the forefront of our national consciousness. There are a...
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Faith, Family, and the Dangers of Capitalism
Do Hobby Lobby’s day-to-day practices contravene many conservative values? That was Patrick Deneen’s thesis in “Even If Hobby Lobby Wins, We All Lose”, wherein Deneen managed to articulate a fairly...
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3 Thoughts on Kindle Unlimited
I have a roundup on Amazon’s latest innovation over at Mere O Notes so if you’re wanting to learn more about Kindle Unlimited, start there. I. Our Technocratic Libertarianism While Mark Lilla is...
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Forgiveness and Our Fundamentalist Technocrats
Over at the Federalist Mollie Hemingway has written about Kim Davis, the Kentucky county clerk refusing to sign same-sex marriage licenses. Many in the media have noted that Davis has been married...
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On the Demise of Grantland
The news that those of us who love good writing had been dreading finally came last Friday: Grantland is dead. No one can be particularly surprised at the move given ESPN’s acrimonious split with site...
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SJWs, the Careerist Peace, and the American Corporation
Ross Douthat has, unsurprisingly, written one of the best things on the recent outbreaks at American campuses protesting, amongst other things, institutionalized racism as well as sometimes real and...
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An Interview with Laura Dunn, Director of “The Seer”
Tomorrow I hope to publish a brief review of Laura Dunn’s new film “The Seer.” It’s a unique film and a hard one to pin down because while it is a portrait of Wendell Berry, Berry himself is never...
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Boycotts and the End of Neighborliness
It’s happening again: Someone did something bad and now other people are threatening not to do business with them. But in this case the target for the boycott is not Starbucks or Chick-fil-a or JC...
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