Democracy and the debt crisis – why political theology needs to wake up from...
Now that America’s fiscal cliff has been averted, the press and public attention are turning quickly to the next looming “crisis” – the debt ceiling. For many of today’s liberals, the debt ceiling...
View ArticleSubsidiarity ‘From Above’
In my inaugural post here at There is Power in the Blog I provided a brief introduction to the rich and intriguing concept of subsidiarity in Christian social thought. In this and the following posts I...
View ArticleSubsidiarity ‘From Below’
As I noted in the conclusion of the previous post, “Subsidiarity ‘From Above,’” one place to point to a transition from the ancient and medieval hierarchical view of human society to the modern...
View ArticleProper Reverence for Political Authority
In a recent piece about Les Misérables, which is in general a fine study of the dynamics of law and grace in the film, Michael W. Hannon worries that a view of the state, and the political realm more...
View ArticleOut in Public
On Monday, more than 400 Episcopalians spent a few hours in cold and snowy Washington, DC, praying a modern-day stations of the cross as a public witness against gun violence. More than 20 bishops were...
View ArticleOf Money, Morality and Militants – Why We Need More Calvinists as Finance...
I just read with a certain wry amusement as well as disequilibrum economist Melyvn Krauss’ tirade against the appointment of Jeroen Dijsselbloem, an official from the Dutch Labor Party, to head up the...
View ArticleBoston and the Specter of the Total Security State
You know there’s something wrong with America when the Germans start lecturing you on the danger of a growing totalitarian state in your midst. Recently columnist Jakob Augstein in an article entitled...
View ArticleWelcome to the Desert of the Real…Once More
In the blockbuster 1999 movie The Matrix, released on the eve of the new millennium, Morpheus, the leader of a band of “freedom fighters” against an invisible totalitarian mind control system, offers...
View ArticleSocial Media and the Surveillance State
The use of social media enables the projection of self-identity through digital content. It also enables new possibilities for self-surveillance and surveillance by others, including the state. The...
View ArticleThe revolution against the state – something to celebrate this Fourth of July
As the Fourth of July, the 237th anniversary of America’s famous epoch-staging revolution against Britain arrives, the world is gripped by the strangest of ironies in this strangest of times. The...
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