Manuscript: 2009 Marketplace Speech In 1977 at the University of Zurich, one of my personal heroes, Margaret Thatcher, said: "We must not focus our attention exclusively on the material, because, though important, it is not the main issue ...
An abundance of material is available on the subject of the Christian and politics. Christian political engagement has been debated and discussed from every possible angle. Rick Warren, pastor of the mega-Saddleback church in Southern California, known for his advocacy of a "seeker...
Of all the issues that hold ideological significance in my life, none reach the level of gravity that the subject of faith and capitalism do. I am convinced that there are more souls to be won by demonstrating the compatibility of free market economics...
The 21st century has begun, and few could argue that it has launched with a bang, not a whimper. Less than one decade into the third millennium, and nearly all of the events, values, and patterns that dictated the direction of history over the...
Manuscript Marketplace Dinner 2008 Speech: The Good of Affluence, and the Danger of Repudiating it The theme of this annual dinner has been specifically tied to the role of believers in the marketplace since its inception four years ago. God has instilled me in a...
|It is indisputable to those with functioning sensory skills that the economy is in the midst of substantial turmoil. Brought on by the bursting of a housing and mortgage bubble, the excess of which defies the imagination even of the dotcom atrocity, large sectors...
The study of economics has been essentially abandoned at public high schools in America, and based on what they are teaching in the field at public universities, we can probably be grateful they have delayed the "instruction". No social science or scholastic discipline is...
I wish I could express how disappointed I am to have to say the things I say about Pat Buchannan, as I feel he has tremendous talent and virtue in many aspects of policy and socio-political life. He is not an entirely moronic person...
Sometimes politicians, journalists and others exclaim; "It's just a tax cut for the rich!" and it is just accepted to be fact. But what does that really mean?Let's put tax cuts in terms everyone can understand. Suppose that every day, ten men go out for dinner...
In last week's issue of Time Magazine, Joe Klein responded to the present disastrous direction the protectionists are trying to lead the global economy in. While accurately acknowledging it has traditionally been the Republicans who have been the larger protectors of economic freedom,...
