Jeff Tucker lets off a little steam here. HT: David Field. But since I have linked to the von Mises site, let me just say something about secular economic libertarianism. There are two points to make about it. First, it is an idol. Second, it is an idol that virtually no one bows down to. …
Reinventing Yourself
“I like that merges into I’m like that. Identity prevails” (Virginia Postrel, The Substance of Style, p. 101).
He’s Right Here
Once there were two girls, the best of friends. They played together, went to school together, and grew up together. They even made a point of attending the same college together. Nothing could separate them, or so they thought. One day, when they were juniors, a young man in their class began showing one of …
Gratitude for the Laws
Enlightenment modernist types want laws to run everything, all by themselves, and they want this in every department of human thought. It doesn’t matter if we are talking about logic, or science, or economics. They want the whole schbeal run by the law of non-contradiction, the law of gravity, and the law of supply and …
Always Smite the Commies
I have mentioned before the fact that I am pleased to have participated in the Cold War, first as a child doing the public school nuke drills at Germantown Elementary in Annapolis, and then later as a sailor looking at Russia through a periscope. But personal experience aside, the hot wars of the first part …
Bit By Bit
“Not all personalized expression looks good to other people, of course. Especially in the early days of desktop publishing, a lot of amateurs went in for the multifont ransom-note look. PowerPoint presentations are still often hard to read or cluttered with clichéd clip art, and the Web is full of ugly sites. But, on the …
Like Butterscotch Pudding
One of the things I learned from Rushdoony (is that okay to admit?) is the concept of tolerance as false truce. All law is imposed morality, and the only question is which morality is going to be imposed, not whether one is going to be imposed. Periods of “tolerance” are times when this appears not …
About Time
“Although clever allusions still have their place, the breakdown of modernist ideology means that it’s no longer necessary to hide aesthetic pleasure behind postmodern irony and camp” (Virginia Postrel, The Substance of Style, p. 13).
Here. Try This First.
“Let this be a constant rule: Never make use of severity till you have tried what clemency will do” (Burroughs, Irenicum, pp. 371-372).
The Forgotten Duty
INTRODUCTION: Forgiveness of sin is forgiveness of sin, not redefinition of sin (Rom. 13:8-10). “Christians aren’t perfect, just forgiven” contains a glorious truth. But, misapplied as it frequently is, it also represents a travesty of biblical living. THE TEXT: “And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, If a soul sin, and commit a trespass against …