Beware subjective morality. Online media criticism has some peculiarities. Among these is the term ‘Mary Sue,’ derived from a Star Trek fanzine story. The term is widely used and therefore, by the same virtue as other powerful pejoratives (‘fascist,’ ‘racist,’
A people has a right to retain its land. Private property is an important part of any just and healthy society. Private property should not be vulnerable to eminent domain (i.e. the government going ‘Mine now’, al a Naboth’s vineyard)
Liability, not regulation. Free market economics is near and dear to my heart. Essential to that economic model, however, is clear and accurate information. Fraud kills free enterprise nearly as fast as government (in part because it invites government action).
Not modernity’s callowness but a question of proper identity. ‘What clothes would you wear, if you wore the clothes most completely suited to you?’ This thought exercise does not require an answer, except the time spent in considering it. If
God is our legislator. The fundament of American government’s institution is the legislature. Congress makes the law; the executive enforces the law; the judiciary arbitrates the law’s enforcement. In theory, that is the American structure, repeated across fifty one constitutions.
That’s not good Inflation promotes hard work. Contrary to what you may think, looking at my Protestant bona fides, that’s not a good thing. Inflation promotes hard work, but it promotes a vicious perversion of hard work. The chain of
Three articles in a single go. The last three articles in Islander 5 we’ll take at a go, because (1) this series has gotten long enough (if I repeat it with #6, it’ll be less comprehensive) and (2) I have
Christian nationalist or not, that’s the Bible’s teaching. The Presbyterian Church of America is the largest Christ-accepting Presbyterian denomination in America, and it is the denomination I am currently a member of, in the institutional sense. The PCA is also
A part of this problem lies in an over-enamorment with physical vigor. Will Tanner’s article in Islander 5 (The Mercenaries) is a set of three historical vignettes between two framing statements regarding the locus of power in society, relative to
We’re doing two articles today. Today we’re doing two articles from Islander V. The first article is interesting in itself, but I don’t have the need to respond to it in depth. It’s an examination of how various cultures, from