Last night I joined my old friend and Bear, Stearns colleague Wayne Angell—a vice chairman of the Fed’s Board of Governors two decades ago—on CNBC’s Kudlow Report . Wayne took issue with economists who fear deflation; I tend to share those fears, although for different . . . . Continue Reading »
I stumbled across Open Source Catholic while looking for something entirely different, and as our webmaster says it looks like a useful site, pass it along. It includes stories with mysterious titles like Drupal Gardens enters Open Public Beta and understandable ones like Live-Blogging . . . . Continue Reading »
The word “evangelism” derives from the Greek word evangel or ” good news,” writes our web editor Joe Carter in today’s lead “On the Square” article, Selling Jesus Like a Chevy . How odd then that so much evangelism appears to be about selling . . . . Continue Reading »
In nearly a year on staff at this magazine, there is one lesson that this left-leaning Jew has learned above all others: tolerance. I now work among men and women I respect for their talents, their ideals, and their views, even though—on that last point—we disagree vehemently, and often. . . . . Continue Reading »
The great English abolitionist and statesman William Wilberforce once asked, And, sir, when we think of eternity, and of the future consequences of all human conduct, what is there in this life that should make any man contradict the dictates of his conscience, the principles of justice, the laws . . . . Continue Reading »
On May 6, during a a speech to the Catholic Community Conferences, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said: They ask me all the time, ‘What is your favorite this? What is your favorite that? What is your favorite that?’ And one time, ‘What is your favorite word?’ And I said, ‘My . . . . Continue Reading »
This is a hairline crack in the Obamacare foundation, but a crack nonetheless. Obamacare was passed over the objection of voters, and now big MO has expressed its objection by about a 73% vote. From the story:Voters in Missouri overwhelmingly opposed requiring people to buy health . . . . Continue Reading »
Some ink (some virtual) has been spilled on novelist Ms Rice announcing that she has “left the Church” but not left Christ. Recently I have been reading and studying the five theological orations by St. Gregory the Theologian (also known as St. Gregory of Nazianzus where he was Bishop . . . . Continue Reading »
The Russian Orthodox Church is training an “army” of young missionaries with an “anti-Western philosophy” to convey the Church’s teaching on contemporary issues and “distance young people from drugs, alcoholism, sexual promiscuity.” In Philosophy and Faith , . . . . Continue Reading »
Neither subject interests me much, but the juxtaposition caught my eye over breakfast: A Fashion Identity Crisis at Wal-Mart . It reported on the decline in the chain’s clothes sales and the judgments it needed to make about what kinds of clothes to sell in order to sell more. I’m not . . . . Continue Reading »
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