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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Losing Your Dharma
“It’s impossible to fall off mountains you fool.” If your response to the preceding is “Wow, man. That’s deep. Really deep,” then I have a book for you. If you respond like any sane person and say “Uh, not only is that untrue, it’s a rather stupid mantra,” then sorry, No Book for You. The […]
The Problem of Not Being Dickens
Tom Jones is a novel. Of that there is no doubt. Depending on how you define “novel,” it may be the first “novel.” Probably not, though. For no particular reason, I define “novel” more broadly, so Robinson Crusoe get the honor. The novel (Tom Jones, not Robinson Crusoe) is divided into 18 books, and […]
The Nice Machiavelli
“Out of his surname they have coined an epithet for a knave, and out of his Christian name a synonym for the Devil.” Macaulay wrote that about Niccolo Machiavelli. You’ve heard of Maciavelli, of course. He wrote The Prince, that manual for back-room, double-crossing, amoral, evil, self-serving, repulsive, despicable people. Not people like you, obviously. […]