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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Embracing Your Inner Psmith
It comes to all of us in the end. The school years finish. Done. Finding ourselves poised at that moment between the rolling years of school and the endless plains of the Rest of Life, what book should we read, dear Comrade? What book sets forth the stark choices facing us all at that moment? […]
On Lecturing
Chekhov’s “A Boring Story: From an Old Man’s Notes” does not have the most promising title. The tale is about an elderly university professor, also not very promising. But, then, in the middle of this “boring story,” the professor talks about lecturing at a college The passage is quite literally stunning. It is without a […]
A Funeral Pyre for Books
“When people ask me what I do, I usually say I’m an essayist or a critic. More honorable terms, both, and they mostly fit. They almost conceal the fact that the greater part of what I do is read and write about books.” In writing that, Sven Birkerts expanded his repertoire into writing about reading […]