Blog | Mises Institute. Praeambula Fidei. CRUSADER | The Prophet Of Wrath. Christians love to apologize for the Crusades. In the modern climate of the ever more liberal Christian denominations, this moment in its history is often perceived as an ill conceived war of aggression by a western civilization dominated by an opportunistic Catholic Church. Modern scholars, using modern vernacular, will often attribute this to a form of “Christian Fundamentalism.” One could even be led to believe that the Muslims were just peacefully minding their own business, in lands that were legitimately theirs, until the European Crusaders came crashing into their benevolent kingdom forcing Christianity on them by the sword. Worse, the Crusaders are often seen as imperialists simply seeking to create new colonies for the profits of the “not so pious or faithful” adventurers seeking personal fame and fortune. Unfortunately this is a modern fabrication. The Crusades were a DEFENSIVE war launched in response to centuries of Muslim aggression and conquests.
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The American Experience. Higher Education and the Liberal Arts. ISI recommends reading through the introductory essay before following the embedded hyperlinks or before working through the course itself. The essay can orient your reading and reflection so that like Caleb and Joshua you are calm and perceptive in the face of the intellectual giants you will find in this land. At least since William F. Buckley Jr.’s God and Man at Yale became a best-seller in 1951 (if not before), the state of higher education has been a pressing concern for American conservatives.
In that book, Buckley lamented that although Yale University ostensibly had a Christian mission—it had been founded in 1701 by Congregationalist ministers to train orthodox clergymen, Harvard having fallen into Unitarianism—its Religion faculty by the middle of the twentieth century promoted cool skepticism at best and out-and-out atheism at worst. Great Books - Higher Ed - The Logos. Conservatism and Multiculturalism.
Predicament of a Cultural Pluralist. Kingship & The Divine. First Principles. Free Markets & Civil Society. Family and the Liberal Capitalist. Creative Destruction, Family Style. Do We Need a Return to the Gold Standard? Do We Need a Return to the Gold Standard? Harry C. Veryser - 08/24/11 With the stock market volatile, the economy struggling, and the value of the dollar declining, gold is making a comeback. Ron Paul, who advocates a gold standard, is running even with President Obama in recent polls. Websites like TheGoldStandardNow.org are calling for . . . well, the gold standard now. So what is the gold standard?
The term “gold standard” implies that a nation’s currency is backed by the precious metal gold. When someone refers to the gold standard they are typically referring to an international monetary system in which participating nations have defined their currencies’ values in terms of quantities of gold. It is easy to see how a gold standard facilitates international trade. The opposite effects should occur in nations that exported more goods than they imported (trade-surplus nations). A second problem with the gold standard involved the adjustment process in trade-deficit nations. Capitalism vs. Socialism. From Cracks in the Liberal Edifice to the Rediscovery of the Common Good | Dembinski | Markets & Morality. The Western Dilemma: Calvin or Rousseau?