AEI President Arthur Brooks's latest Wall Street Journal op-ed has been a little hard for me to take because it basically says conservatives are dumb meanies. But you know what? He's right. Bear with me. This isn't an "I turned liberal on you" missive.
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There's a healthcare revolution underway, and I am not talking about Obamacare. While the "individual mandate" debate and the Supreme Court ruling have stymied CNN reporters and temporarily turned the Twittersphere into a salon for legal debate, you might have missed Dr. Jimmy Lin, the 2012 TED fellow pioneering crowdsourced funding for cutting-edge research on treatments for rare genetic diseases. |
In its prophetic and unsettling portrayal of a future "utopia" (or more fittingly, "dystopia"), Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World" conveys a fundamental societal choice. We can pursue either truth and beauty or happiness and comfort. Huxley forces his reader to ask: Which option will your own society choose? |
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On Fridays, we bring you the best of our blog and the best of the web. This week's roundup includes thoughts on Christian political engagement, a parable about gasoline, an explanation of high tuition costs, and more. |
Click "play" below to listen to the Values & Capitalism faculty conference call with Dr. Brian Fikkert on March 18, 2013. |
Among the attendees at Values & Capitalism's "Is the Good Book Good Enough?" event were about 20 college students, which invites the question: What place do Millennials have in a conversation about evangelical political engagement? As future leaders who are inheriting the less-than-ideal legacy of our parents' generation, we ought to have a significant role as we share in God's care for this world. |
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Our recent event "Is the Good Book Good Enough?" discussed recent and future evangelical engagement with public policy. We've continued the conversation online, focusing especially on Michael Cromartie's call for an "Augustinian sensibility," in what he described as the current "now, but not yet" phase of history. |
Answers in public policy have a short shelf-life, as circumstances change so fast that a brilliant solution one day may become a terrible idea the next. So we adopt principles. Just think, if a child learned "2+2=4" but never learned the rule of addition, they wouldn't know what to do when faced with a new math problem. |
My last two posts introduced you to Cornelius Vanderbilt, an entrepreneur widely recognized for his contributions to the railroad industry. He also had success in advancing steamboats in New York waters and steamships across the Atlantic Ocean. |