Category Archives: Articles

20 Sep
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The Importance of the Right Questions

Aristotle saw commerce in two ways. One was natural. Natural exchange is akin to bartering for what we need. If I need bananas and you need rice, we trade to meet those needs—the value of the exchange is exhausted by ...

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19 Sep
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Property Rights Are Human Rights

Landlords are, it should be obvious, landowners. If tenants are able to occupy landowners’ property without paying the agreed-to fee, the owners’ property rights are violated. Similarly, a restaurant is a privately owned building. The freedom to use that property ...

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12 Sep
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The Greatness of Capitalism

The intellectual classes resort to envy. Why should I, they wonder, make less than that uneducated Rotarian making millions by selling soap? Envy motivates their hatred. The pulpit-pounding religionists lament the lowering of morals, greed, and the corruption of affluence. ...

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11 Sep
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Love Casts Out Fear

“Perfect love casts out fear.” Perhaps if we focus less on stamping out the objects of our fears and pay more attention to contributing to the good of others, we’ll find that fear and anxiety and its attendant pathologies—alcohol and ...

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07 Sep
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Workers Unite!

The day evokes in me memories of marches I attended as a child, and the slogan we chanted, “Workers of the world, unite!" The famous rallying cry comes from The Communist Manifesto and was popularized in English as "Workers of ...

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07 Sep
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Labor Can Heal

The healing groups meet regularly and provide a time for sharing and prayer. They also provide an opportunity for remunerative work. The organization runs a micro-loan program, whereby women can obtain small loans to start businesses such as bakeries or ...

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29 Aug
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What We Are Fighting is Racialism

The countless souls trapped in communities where incivility, anger, and violence reign are not often covered by the news. Pursuit of justice does not have to be this way, but this push for racial justice has become what seems to ...

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27 Aug
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That’s Politics!

To some extent, this kind of human bias is inevitable and even desirable. The value of loyalty attaches us to a family, tribe, or other group and provides the emotional impetus needed to defend those to whom we are most ...

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24 Aug
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The Problem with Mandates

Current controversy about the limits of government authority may revolve around masks, shutdowns, and quarantines, but the central issue—the legitimacy and advisability of government mandates—is a perennial one and lies at the heart of all theories of government and society. ...

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15 Aug
0

“No Justice, No Peace”?

Dr. King saw the need to make a case for the reality of structural injustice that necessitated a response that need not be violent but could be violent. In effect, the Black Power movement responded to the same structural reality ...

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