socialism

Of Pilgrims and Communism

Christian Worldview

As people in the United States celebrate Thanksgiving this week, we rightly express gratitude for the divine providence that sustains all of us. The iconography of this American holiday is ...

Weekend Insights – Space, the Final Frontier

News

Welcome back to Weekend Insights, your LCI "President's Corner" of miscellaneous articles, events, books, vids, and whatever else I'm thinking about...

When Christians Love Political Power More Than People

Christian Worldview

… the devil took him to the peak of a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory. “I will give it all ...

Is Jesus killing America? No, Jesus is life.

Christian Worldview

Calling them to Himself, Jesus said to them, “You know that those who are recognized as rulers of the Gentiles domineer over them; and their people in high position exercise ...

Weekend Insights – Is it over?

President's Blog

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Weekend Insights – Happy Birthday Hayek, and here’s some advice…

President's Blog

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Weekend Insights – Dogecoin Raps and Coronavirus Cowards

President's Blog

Welcome back to Weekend Insights, your LCI "President's Corner" of miscellaneous articles, events, books, vids, and whatever else I'm thinking about...

Jesus Was Not a Socialist

Christian Worldview

Our dear friend Larry Reed, an advisor to LCI and former President of the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE), recently released his book Was Jesus A Socialist? and it follows on ...

You Can Learn A lot About Socialized Care from Prison

Libertarianism

“I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison and you came to me.” – Matthew 25:36 The following is an ...

The March of History – Mises vs. Marx

Economics

AIER just released an incredible video about the ongoing war of ideas of socialism versus capitalism, exemplified in the persons of Karl Marx and Ludwig von Mises. You definitely do ...

Elucidating Ellul #1: The Problems of Capitalism and the Bigger Problems of Socialism

Libertarianism

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 of him as part Owen ...

Democratic Socialism: A Sit Down with the Nanny-State

Economics

Part I: Socialisms on a Spectrum “Democratic socialism is a democracy in which the people control the economy and government, no group dominates any other, and every citizen is free, ...

Does Democratic Socialism Promote Biblical Values?

Libertarianism

This is a guest post by Mike Maharrey, and was originally published on GodArchy.org An article by Obery M. Hendricks Jr. published at Sojourners touted the “biblical values” of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s ...

Even Good Theologians Do Bad Economics

Christian Worldview

CJay Engel at The Reformed Libertarian has begun a series of articles that address the rising concern that libertarian Christians often have regarding the social/political shift to the left of pastors, ...

The Jesus and Socialism Debate

Announcements

I was recently informed that Lawrence Reed, President of the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE), will be on the Up For Debate Radio Program on the Moody Radio Network this ...

Our Disordered Lives

Culture

By Rev. Edmund Opitz, author of The Libertarian Theology of Freedom and Religion and Capitalism: Allies, Not Enemies. This essay was originally published in the July 1973 issue of The ...

Who should support the disabled?

Economics

This article originally was published at the Future of Freedom Foundation on December 26, 2012. Some of the most terrifying words the parents of a newborn will ever hear are ...

Our Disordered Lives

American History

By Edmund Opitz, author of The Libertarian Theology of Freedom and Religion and Capitalism: Allies, Not Enemies. This essay was originally published in the July 1973 issue of The Freeman. ...

Socialism is not Christian

Christian Ethics

By Edmund Opitz, author of The Libertarian Theology of Freedom and Religion and Capitalism: Allies, Not Enemies. This article originally appeared in the March 1974 issue of The Freeman. The ...

Statist Baggage on the Airlines

Economics

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 ...

Why do “They” turn to socialism?

History

By Edmund Opitz (1914-2006), author of The Libertarian Theology of Freedom and Religion and Capitalism: Allies, Not Enemies. —- Every person of good will longs for peace on earth; he ...

Should We Let Things Get So Bad They Finally Get Better?

Economics

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 ...

The Market Economy and Its Life-Support System

Economics

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 ...

Jim Wallis Hates Tax Cuts

President's Blog

My friend Doug Stuart sent me Jim Wallis’s response to the renewed tax cuts: The quote that drove me nuts: They are already getting richer because of our ...

Enjoy Capitalism!

Economics

Capitalism is the only moral social system. Only a capitalist system allows you to act in your own interest, to keep what you have worked for and trade it with ...

The Liberating Arts

Philosophy

By Edmund Opitz. —- The recent movie called Out of Africa has acquainted millions of Americans with the name of a Danish Baroness Blixen, whose pen name was Isak Dinesen. ...

Economics Has the Answer: What’s the Question?

Economics

By Edmund Opitz. Adam Smith’s monumental achievement was to enlarge the individual person’s freedom of action in economic affairs, and thus in other sectors of his life as well. Smith’s ...

Churches and the Social Order

Christian Ethics

By Edmund Opitz. The church plays an important role in human life. It was once the unwritten rule in polite society that two topics have no place in civilized conversation; ...

A Tribute to Edmund A. Opitz

History

Mr. Robert Sirico, President of the Acton Institute, made these remarks on the occasion of the retirement dinner of Mr. Edmund Opitz at the Foundation for Economic Education in Irvington, ...

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