Podcast: The Morality of Capitalism
Be sure to catch this podcast recorded by Caleb Brown of the Cato Institute. More information about the Morality of Capitalism project is available at the Students for Liberty website. From the Cato Institute:Capitalism deserves a moral defense, but even those who...
Spending Cuts and Charity
Yesterday, I had the pleasure of appearing as a guest on the To the Point radio program on Southern California's NPR affiliate KCRW. The interview starts at about 19:35. Listen here.From the KCRW website: Public Spending Cuts, Private Charities and the 'Truly...
Atomic Communitarianism
If there’s one thing I’ve learned from arguing with progressives, it’s that most seem to misunderstand individualism. To promote it, they’ll say, is to support selfishness, greed, and limitless license—a me-centered world where it’s every man for himself and...
Poverty and Stewardship
Jennifer Marshall of The Heritage Foundation writes today in the Kansas City Star on America's budget crisis and biblical mandates.Those who appeal to the Bible in this debate have more than one moral mandate to heed. As a new network called Christians for...
Proverbs and Wealth: Part 2
I’m going to pick right back up where I left off last time, and present you with the final three principal teachings regarding wealth found in the book of Proverbs.3) Wealth has a limited (but very real and long-range) advantage, and is never to be idolized.There is...
Making the CASE
On Monday, July 18, I arrived in the "Big Sky Country" of Bozeman, MT, where I was attending a conference for religious leaders on economics and the environment. It was my second year and I was looking forward to spending time with a diverse group of friends and...
The RJ Moeller Show: Victor Davis Hanson
On this episode, R.J. talks with Victor Davis Hanson, a professor of the classics for more than two decades in the California State University system. Dr. Hanson is a columnist at National Review, a senior fellow of military history at Stanford's Hoover...
Cocaine Charity
Originally posted at Smorgasblurb.My friend, Brian, recently returned from a missions trip to Kenya. He led a group of youth as they supported their Kenyan partner church ministry for two weeks. The Kenyan ministry’s focus was HIV positive mothers in its very poor...
"CSR" and Capitalistic Guilt
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has varying definitions, but among them is a common theme of “giving back” to the local and global community in which a company operates:Corporate social responsibility encompasses not only what companies do with their...
