The Affordable Care Act and Labor Supply
On Tuesday the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office released it’s report – “Budget and Economic Outlook: 2014 to 2024” . The report is causing quite a stir because of the CBO’s estimates of the...
View ArticleFirst Lady Food Frenzy
The First Lady Michelle Obama is at it again. Reacting to her critics she has reiterated the necessity of food regulations for school lunch programs. Many schools and districts have complained about...
View ArticleThe Sexual Assault Scandal and Defending George Will
In a recent column in the Washington Post, the journalist George Will wrote a column on sexual assault entitle “Colleges Become Victims of Progressivism” (June 6, 2014) in which he was critical of the...
View ArticleAccreditation for Me But Not for Thee
A recent article appeared in the Chronicle of Higher Education, in which the author, Peter Conn, a professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania, took issue with the accreditation of certain...
View ArticleMartha Nussbaum and Creating Capabilities: The Wrong Road
I listened yesterday to an EconTalk episode on my computer in which the host Russ Roberts interviewed Martha Nussbaum on the program. But if you haven’t listened to EconTalk interviews, you are...
View ArticleGay Rights and Religious Liberty Clash in the Atlanta Fire Department
The New York Times recently editorialized on the decline and fall of Atlanta Fire Department Chief Kelvin Cochran. Cochran, deeply religious, lost his job primarily for publishing, and distributing to...
View ArticleA Different/Similar Take on the Indiana Law
This blog serves as somewhat of a response to Mark Smith’s blog. It is different however in that it deals primarily with legal and broader theological issues. By now most know something about the...
View ArticleThe Berean Foundations
This blog may seem redundant, since I have published similar pieces before. But from time to time I believe our readers need to see articulated the foundations for our positions. I believe I...
View ArticleInner Cities, Part 2: A Partial Response
After a couple of responses to my first post on the solution to the problems of inner cities, I decided I ought to delve a little deeper. I am responding here to two similar but different types of...
View ArticleThe Catholic Church and the Pope on Politics and Economics: A Threat?
It began when the current Pope, Francis, succeeded Benedict XVI and proceeded to issue an encyclical dealing with economics. Many at the time defended him and argued that he could be interpreted in...
View ArticleContinuing cultural confusion amidst the claimed certainty of Progressives:...
As many conservative observers have noted, the same-sex marriage decision by the Supreme Court is not the end of the culture wars, but only the next step in an increase in the progressive push to...
View ArticleSome Questions to Ponder: Just Asking
I have a few questions for thought today. I am not answering them, though the reader may well have some idea where I am on them. So just read and ponder. Please feel free to comment too. I have not...
View ArticleIdentity Politics Collides with Identity Dignity
Until recently, Rachel Dolezal served as the head of the Spokane chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Recent information has revealed that Dolezal is not...
View ArticleKasich and Conservatism: A Supplement to Mark Smith’s Blog
My Berean colleague Mark Smith wrote a very astute piece for this blog on the recent announcement by Ohio Governor Jon Kasich as a candidate for the presidency in 2016. He received an interesting and...
View ArticleTechnocracy and Human Flourishing
During the Obama administration, and especially the last five years after the passage of Obamacare, we have seen numerous attempts, some successful and others still in the process, to impose more...
View ArticleFrederic Bastiat as Prophet
I have been reading quite a few articles lately in which the individuals (politicians, bureaucrats and just ordinary citizens) are asked about various issues related to the presidential campaigns. One...
View ArticleProtectionism, Donald Trump and the Kevin Williamson Blast
It seems this blog overlaps one just published by my colleague Jeff Haymond. But I will publish mine anyway, since it nicely supplements his. Donald Trump has been saying quite a bit recently about...
View ArticleGreat link on the Transgender questions; yes there are many questions
Marc Clauson’s posts over the last few weeks generated a lot of heat, and perhaps less light than would be good (not due to his writing). Given the emotion on this issue we saw here at BATG, I would...
View ArticleIs child labor something that Bereans should be against?
Not according to economist Ben Powell, and I’m with him (in the abstract). Of course there are specific cases we should have outrage, but we can’t simply wish that all of the world was wealthy enough...
View ArticleCritical Thinking About Critical Thinking
“Are Students Really Learning to Be Critical Thinkers?” is the title of an article in BetterEd by Annie Holmquist (http://www.better-ed.org/blog/are-students-really-learning-be-critical-thinkers)....
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