Deuteronomy is a puzzling book. It’s a marvelous ‘farewell sermon’ by Moses before Joshua takes up command, but the literary history challenges any historian or
Do our current circumstances of Presidential impeachment have potentially even greater significance than we may immediately realize? Perhaps so.
The term “democracy” is used for an incredibly diverse array of ideas. For some, “democratic” means “has elections.” For others, it means “the people have
What used to be a utopian view of society, with the state playing the role of the brain, not only has been ideologically accepted in
Ellul’s French contemporary, Michel Foucault, argued that knowledge is manufactured through power relations in society. In fact, he spoke of “regimes of truth” that rise
The French sociologist Jacques Ellul (1912-1994) was not just ahead of his time. He was a remarkably independent and eccentric thinker. I like to think
In the last part of this series, we looked at distributism and the concerns of both public and private concentrations of power. I asserted that
In the last post in this series, we looked at how “socialism” can mean different things to different people. In principle, there is some distance
“Democratic socialism is a democracy in which the people control the economy and government, no group dominates any other, and every citizen is free, equal,
“There is no sport for the ignoramus like killing a useful word.” –Owen Barfield, World’s Apart, 1963 The meaning of words can be killed in countless ways
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