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Primarily featuring posts written by students and faculty in our network, our blog is a forum for writing on issues of faith, politics, economics, and society. The views and opinions expressed in this blog are those of the authors alone.

The TOMS Development Model

Last week on this blog, Chris Horst gave us his take of the TOMS Shoes and Whole Foods strategies for do-goodism. Praising Whole Foods for trying to make their support for the poor an integral component of their broader business strategy, Chris also brings up an...

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CNN Debate: Young Voters Win

Regardless of which candidate won Monday night's debate, one thing is for certain: young American voters (18-39) emerged as winners. Young voters desperately want both politicians to focus on the economy, and this is exactly what the debaters did.Youth unemployment is...

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Fairness Doesn't Matter

What are Christians to make of the radical disparities between the rich and the poor; or even between the rich and the middle class?Does it not seem obscene that some people own two, three, four or more enormous houses that sit vacant while many people can’t afford a...

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Israel Asks For a King: Part I

My recent piece on the trouble with centralized power (“From Babel to Babylon”) took, historically speaking, a “macro” view of what I believe to be God’s clear disdain for mankind pursuing their own ends instead of His articulated purposes when it comes to how we...

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Palin and the Youth Vote

Sarah Palin Could Give the Democrats 40 More Years in the White HouseFollowing the 2008 presidential election, strategist James Carville predicted that Democrats would dominate national politics for “40 More Years.” His reasoning boiled down to two words: young...

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The Right to Assemble

The first amendment encompasses much content in a few words:Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to...

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TOMS Shoes vs. Whole Foods

Originally posted at Smorgasblurb.TOMS defines cool. Their hip slip-ons (and recently announced eyewear line) are the garnishment of urban hipsters, but even much-less-cool folks like me love when companies give back. The winning equation for TOMS has been the "buy...

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Reconciling Ayn Rand and Jesus

There have been a number of articles lately about the apparent contradictions among small-government supporters who claim Ayn Rand as a hero and who are also religious. This is supposed to be some kind of “gotcha” moment where supporters of big-government point out...

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