The government is working well when no one pelled ment on it. As poet Henry David Thoreau said: “That government is best which governs least.” Read More… Movie audiences experience high emotional engagement when they identify personally with the characters. The same is true in modern American politics, which increasingly have e treated as a source of social identity and entertainment. But should politics be a source of entertainment? Or should politics be boring? The founding fathers explicitly ordained six...

Whatever one thinks of the prudence of the lockdowns as a means for containing the virus, they inadvertently doubled as an extreme experiment in what happens to children when they are over-sheltered and over-protected from the outward journeys of daily life. Yet, to a lesser degree, that experiment was already well underway before the pandemic ever began. Read More… Should parents prioritize extreme safety or thoughtfully push their kids toward independence and self-reliance? It’s a question that moms and dads...

Far from being the Utopian mode of government its proponents would have you believe it to be, socialism is actually a poisonous worldview that pits neighbors against each other, scorns success and breeds negativity. Read More… It’s hard to feel happy for people who are more successful than you. It’s easier to envy them – but doing so means forgetting that high achievers pave the way for others to succeed. Free societies make it possible for more people to rise...

Not only does tyranny like to hide behind an unintelligible mass of bureaucratic phrases, but it disguises itself with pleasing and pleasant words. Read More… Many of us have noticed a trend toward the political misuse of words, both in legacy media and on social media. This isn’t a modern trend. In the 6th century B.C., the prophet Jeremiah denounced this same practice among his kinsmen, vividly portraying their deceptive verbal gymnastics as bending the tongue like a bow. They...

The Judeo-Christian tradition is against harming the poor and the voiceless (the young in this situation. Thrift, responsibility (ethical and financial), and honesty have been hailed as virtues from time immemorial. With inflationary deficit spending, the government embodies none of these virtues, and does so to our moral and economic deficit. Read More… Spending! Relief! Infrastructure Investment! Build Back Better! These are words and sayings that have been bandied about throughout the past year. Anyone with a basic interest in...

To preserve economic liberty, Central Bank Digital Currencies need to operate within a clearly articulated rule of law while allowing tertiary cryptocurrencies to freely operate within a decentralized institutional framework which protects individual privacy while retaining economic stability. Read More… Ever since the first Bitcoin was mined in January of 2009, we’ve seen an ever-growing interest in cryptocurrencies and blockchain — the technology upon which Bitcoin is based. What are we to make of it all? Will Bitcoin or another...

The treasures of earth may be employed for heavenly ends, and thus there is nothing inherently wrong with earning them. But we should always “strive first” for the treasures of heaven and, like Tobit, trust God to provide should e when earthly treasures are wanting. Read More… Tobit is one of the lesser-known books of the Bible, in no small part because Protestant Bibles since the 19th monly omit it. But any Christian, Protestant or otherwise, would benefit from Tobit’s...

While many orphanages are doing good and necessary work, others have contributed to cycles of child abandonment, family disintegration, and poverty. Unbeknownst to many American Christians, the majority of children living in orphanages have living parents, and such families would likely be better served by a different kind of support altogether. Read More… Orphan care has long been a central focus of Christian missions, prompting many churches to offer significant support for orphanages around the world, whether through financial donations,...