We’re Number One!!
Both the Right and Left in American politics agree with this aim - to keep America "number one."
Hanging Out with, and Learning from, Some Thoroughly Material Benedictines
A few weeks ago I was able to, once again, do something that I enjoy doing immensely--take a group of students out on a...
New Dishwasher?
Mt. Airy, Philadelphia. About a week ago our dishwasher started to issue a loud grinding sound from its hidden depths. After a few days...
Possessive Individualism: Can We Really Own Ourselves?
The bedrock principle of all Liberalism, whether of the Right or the Left, is Locke’s assertion that “every man has a Property in his...
Risk Pool
It has been a year since the collapse of Lehman Brothers, and the subsequent near-collapse of the international economic system followed quickly by the...
The 100 Years vs. The 100 Days Standard
Erie, PA. Americans were reminded last month that since the time of the New Deal, it has become customary for presidents and...
Piketty’s Challenge: A Past That Consumes the Future
But the rate of profit does not, like rent and wages, rise with the prosperity, and fall with the declension of the society. On...
On the Porch with Bye, Bye, Miss American Empire
I value a writer who makes me read with a dictionary. Godspeed the man with a memory.