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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The Undesired Crossroad
Sometimes you are faced with a really lousy set of options. Sometimes that lousy set of options is your own fault. Cormac McCarthy’s The Counselor wrestles with exactly that problem. A brilliant book. Just brilliant. You won’t forget it. First though, we need to straighten one thing out. This book is called a screenplay. Don’t […]
Evil Jeeves
A plot summary:A young gentleman of dubious intellectual capacity with no discernable means of income has a valet who is extraordinarily brilliant. Said valet is capable of designing ingenious scheme to enable his master to attain seemingly impossible aims. The story is told with great wit. It is incredibly amusing despite the fact (or maybe […]
Looking Anew at the Progressives
If you want to make sense of the Presidential Election, then you should definitely pick up Doris Kearns Goodwin’s The Bully Pulpit. The Progressive Movement has been much discussed by pundits and intellectuals in the last decade. Much discussed. Suddenly the word “progressive” became chic in some circles. It became anathema in other circles This […]