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Aug 1, 2005 The best of Comment

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Gifts from “Father Abraham”

It's entirely possible that someone would look at the title of this column and think, "Is this a discussion of the many benefits of the Abrahamic covenant?" While it is indeed more than worthwhile to mine the riches of faith that we have because of Abraham's obedience...

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Neocalvinism and Social Justice

There is a rather quaint way of describing the modern maldistribution of the world’s goods between haves and have-nots. The fact that some people live in want while others live comfortably—that some go to bed hungry while others risk obesity—is summed up in this term: the social question.

Market economy? Yes! Market society? No!

Aug 1, 2005 The best of Comment

Market economy? Yes! Market society? No!

Here at the Work Research Foundation we believe in markets. We believe markets to be the best way—no, the only sane way—to structure interactions in economic life. But this does not mean we support the idea of a market society—what Warren Bennis calls “a bottom-line society.”

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Work

Okay, you would think by now we would have this work thing all figured out. Besides sleep, it occupies more of our day than any other activity. We are often very good at it. But as an exercise for thinking about work, try answering the following questions: Why do I work? For what good do I work? When should I work?

Building Institutions: The Center for Public Justice

Jun 10, 2005

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Building Institutions: The Center for Public Justice

Skillen calls the Center the vanguard of a new kind of citizenry. Woven into the fabric of the Center’s identity is a conviction that the political order of America must be rethought all the way down to its founding basics. The Center exists, in large part, to testify against an individualistic liberal political order bent to the purposes of self-serving special interests groups.

Blessed Be the Ties That Bind (continued)

Nov 1, 2004

Blessed Be the Ties That Bind (continued)

Continued from part 1... As civil society discourse began to re-enter the currency of political debate a decade or two ago, historians of political thought reminded protagonists that the term in its modern sense goes back at least to the eighteenth century. Before...