GOAT: Who is the Greatest Economist of All Time and Why Does it Matter? Even if you have never thought about that question before, now you want to know the answer. Indeed, you may even be set to argue that the given answer is wrong. The GOAT question is the greatest bar argument of all time. Who is the GOAT shortstop? Rock vocalist? American novelist? Greek philosopher?…pick the category, and a lively debate ensues. But, the GOAT economist? You probably have not had that debate. Until now. Pull up a barstool. Tyler Cowen wrote a book using that question as the title. (The book … [Read More...] about Greatest Economist of All Time
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No Creed But the Bible?
“I believe in one God, the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible;And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God, begotten of his Father before all worlds, God of God, Light of Light, very God of very God, begotten, not made, being of one substance […]
Schaeffer and the Modern Evangelical
“We live in a post-Christian world. What should be our perspective as individuals, as institutions, as orthodox Christians, as those who claim to be Bible-believing? How should we look at this post-Christian world and function as Christians in it?…The church in our generation needs reformation, revival, and constructive revolution.” (italics in original) That is the […]
The Coming Crack-Up of the Left
There is a specter haunting America, but it is no longer Marxism. Widely dubbed “Woke,” this ideology “is likely to make us stray from, not guide us toward, the kind of society to which we all have reason to aspire.” It is “likely to create a society composed of warring tribes rather than cooperating compatriots.” […]
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Yesterday’s Fad
When it was all the rage back in 2014, I was asked and asked and asked and asked again what I thought about Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century. After a few months of the incessant question, I read it. All the way through. Every single word. I also read more reviews of it than I think […]
The Quest for Answers
During graduation weekend, I gave a talk encouraging the students to never cease asking the important questions in life. Questions like: Does your life have a purpose? What is a Good life? A student stopped by the next day to talk about it. She was worried. How could she possibly ever find a definitive answer […]
The Power of Scripture
“O you who dislike certain portions of the Holy Writ, rest assured that your taste is corrupt and God will not stay for your little opinion.” “How depraved you are if you can perceive no heavenly luster about the Book of God!” Charles Spurgeon really thinks you should treat the Bible a bit more seriously. […]