Progressive Era
America’s Democratic Republican Form of Government At the close of the Constitutional Convention in 1789 Benjamin Franklin was asked by Elizabeth Powell, what kind of a government the Founding Fathers had devised. He famously answered to her: “A Republic, if you can keep it.” The US Constitution and its associated Bill of Rights established the … Read more
The Relative Justice of Economic Redistribution Despite all the philosophical stone-throwing between nominally “right” thinking people and nominally “left” thinking people, socialism is an innate part of the modern civilized world. Like it or not, it IS the world we all live in. The truth is that Classical Liberalism with its love of limited government, … Read more
Book Reviews Page AI & The Prophetic Agony of Frankenstein’s Monster – An Apocalyptic Tale The Internal Journey of Frodo’s Fellowship Beowulf Between Two Worlds 01 – The Progressive Prussian/Hegelian Alternative Which Replaced American Democracy 02 – Woodrow Wilson’s Weirdly Elitist View of American Democracy 02 – Pragmatic Socialism – The Actual 21st Century World … Read more
There is Marxism that’s permitted and Marxism that’s not. The iteration of Marxism that’s permitted in general public discourse is a modified form. Just because the other form isn’t permitted doesn’t necessarily mean it’s completely repressed in our culture, at least not in the manner that repression is usually understood. Our culture is more like Brave … Read more
Walter Bagehot was a mid-Victorian era journalist in Britain who married the eldest daughter of James Wilson, the founder of The Economist magazine. When Mr. Wilson died in 1860, Walter became the editor in chief of The Economist. Over the next 17 years that he held that position, he transformed the journal into one of … Read more
During the 18th century, the higher efficiency of the nascent factory system made the previously revolutionary cottage industry production system less efficient and therefore newly uncompetitive. As a result the cottage industry system lost its commercial viability and gradually began to fail economically. The combination of the decline of cottage industries and the rise of … Read more
Capitalism The term capitalism was originally coined by Karl Marx as a derisive straw-man caricature of the system which allowed the “capital-rich” and exploitive factory owners to abuse and underpay the able-bodied, yet often desperate workers in Victorian England’s First Industrial Revolution. While the term capitalism was never exactly defined by Marx, and has never … Read more
A Christian worldview is a “God’s eye” view of our world. Creation is both visible (the physical world) and invisible (the metaphysical, “spiritual” world). Ancient Christianity understands that the visible and invisible worlds are coexistent, transcendent and indistinguishable.
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