Posts on economics
By Edmund Opitz, author of The Libertarian Theology of Freedom and Religion and Capitalism: Allies, Not Enemies. This article originally appeared in the May 1979 issue of The Freeman. Man ...
Yet another federal budget charade is now in progress. This time for fiscal year 2013, which begins on October 1, 2012. President Obama submitted his bloated budget to Congress in ...
The U.S. government is the largest and most powerful government in the history of the world. But that stature comes with a price. Not only has the American government confiscated ...
Originally published at The New American on April 10, 2012. Tax season is winding down once again, but the progressivity of the tax code is still with us. Most Americans ...
First it was the TSA; now it’s the airlines. In addition to getting their bodies squeezed by the TSA, airline passengers are now getting their wallets squeezed by the airlines ...
The character Flik in the movie A Bug’s Life was always on the lookout for an invention that would improve the lot of his ant colony. In the story, the ants ...
Monday afternoon marked the release of Ron Paul’s “Restore America Now” economic plan and federal budget, and it is impressive. Forget this “9-9-9” garbage put forward by campaigns that prefer ...
Capitalism has an ironic side effect after generations of progress: we forget about the minutia of production and the importance of capital risk and investment. If you are a software ...
This essay continues the Christian Theology and Public Policy Course by John Cobin, author of the books Bible and Government and Christian Theology of Public Policy. —- The state lottery ...
What does “social justice” mean? To the extent that it is about justice – outputs being aligned with inputs; effect being aligned with cause; reaping reward and punishment in right ...
“Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward, and freedom will be defended.” ~ George W. Bush, September 11, 2001 We have heard it repeated loudly and continuously ...
My latest post over at the Common Sense Concept: The poor in the US are doing very well compared to the poor in Kenya and enjoy things like quality housing, ...
“The idea that churches can tackle national poverty, take care of those who are ill, and rebuild communities after natural disasters requires a spoonful of bad moral theology and a ...
This essay continues the Christian Theology and Public Policy Course by John Cobin, author of the books Bible and Government and Christian Theology of Public Policy. —- Do Christians have ...
This essay continues the Christian Theology and Public Policy Course by John Cobin, author of the books Bible and Government and Christian Theology of Public Policy. —- Does the nature ...
This essay continues the Christian Theology and Public Policy Course by John Cobin, author of the books Bible and Government and Christian Theology of Public Policy. —- Economic theory tells ...
This is a post originally written for the Prometheus blog, but it no longer appears there so I thought I’d repost it. —- “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for ...
By Edmund Opitz, author of The Libertarian Theology of Freedom and Religion and Capitalism: Allies, Not Enemies. —- The great political battles of the modern world have been fought around ...
By Edmund Opitz, author of The Libertarian Theology of Freedom and Religion and Capitalism: Allies, Not Enemies. —- The eighteenth century writers, seeking to set forth the features of a ...
A snippet I wrote for the March 2010 issue of Liberty Magazine in the Reflections section under the title “Story Time”: I’ve heard people say that the only way to ...
By Edmund Opitz, author of The Libertarian Theology of Freedom and Religion and Capitalism: Allies, Not Enemies. This article is adapted from a lecture at Grove City College on February ...
By Edmund Opitz, author of The Libertarian Theology of Freedom and Religion and Capitalism: Allies, Not Enemies. —- The World we live in is divided. The major division, the division ...
The subject of a proposed religious theme park in Kentucky brings up an issue near and dear to the heart of libertarians: the sanctity of private property. There is some ...
By Edmund Opitz, originally published in the February 1986 edition of The Freeman. —- Capitalism, by conquering poverty, creates the “problem” of poverty. If we look back over the history ...
By Edmund Opitz, originally published in the April 1984 edition of The Freeman. Status quo is a Latin phrase meaning, in a modern translation, “the mess we are in.” A ...
A quote from Edmund Opitz. —- “The human spirit seeks full and free expression in every department of life: in the spoken and written word; in music, sculpture and architecture; ...
By John Taylor Gatto, originally published in Harpers, September 2003. How public education cripples our kids, and why I taught for thirty years in some of the worst schools in ...
Far from being environments conducive to learning, schools across the world coerce students to conform to the whims of politicians and bureaucrats. Billed as bastions of free expression, intellectual honesty ...
“Progress” is an abused word these days, especially by bureaucrats and the special interest groups that cater to them. Yet such groups, in the name of progress and social justice, ...
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