Will the US Senate Resurrect Kingship?
January 6, 2020
Do our current circumstances of Presidential impeachment have potentially even greater significance than we may immediately realize? Perhaps so.
Author: Dr. Jamin Andreas Hübner
Elucidating Ellul: On Democracy
October 18, 2019
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
Elucidating Ellul #3: Statism
September 13, 2019
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
Elucidating Ellul #2: Appearances and Facts
September 5, 2019
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
Elucidating Ellul #1: The Problems of Capitalism and the Bigger Problems of Socialism
August 27, 2019
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
A Sit Down with the Nanny State (or “Democratic-Socialism”) Part III: Democracy, Socialism, and Freedom
May 23, 2019
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
A Sit Down with the Nanny State, Part II: Distributism and Crony-Capitalism
May 22, 2019
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
A Sit Down with the Nanny-State, Part I: Socialisms on a Spectrum
May 21, 2019
“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,
Don’t Let the Left (and the Right) Steal “Social Justice”
March 13, 2019
“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
Thirteen Signs Caesar Might Be Lord of Your Life
January 9, 2019
“A fish doesn’t know it’s swimming in water.” “A crazy man doesn’t know he’s crazy.” We’ve all heard these quips. And they indicate something powerful
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