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"If truth be told, of course, I knew nothing, at least nothing worth knowing. I knew how to posture, but not how to stand. I knew how to protest, but not how to protect. I knew how to work up an impressive case of moral outrage, but I didn't know morality. I knew about peace, but I didn't know enough to fight for it. I knew about self-indulgence, self-preservation, self-esteem, and self-expression, but I didn't know about self-sacrifice and self-control."
—Michael Bauman, "The Chronicle of an Undeception"

 

"The Chronicle of an Undeception"

"Facing Down the Giants: The Morality and Necessity of Engaging Colossal Evil"

"Reality, Religion and the Marxist Retreat"

"The Dangerous Samaritans: How Our Poverty Programs Injured the Poor"

"Legislating Morality"

"The Politics of Human Nature"

"Pacifism: The Pernicious Error of Treating an End as a Means"

"Christianity and Leftist Radical Chic: Critiquing Evangelicalism's Attraction to Ellul and Anarchy"

"You Might be a Liberal If . . ."

"The Second Death of Socrates: Why Public Education is Often the Enemy of Learning"

"Taxation and Theft"

"Why Minimum Wage Laws Backfire"

"What the Greenies Won't Tell You"

"Right Reason: A Laurel for William F. Buckley, Jr."

"Heather has Two Mommies"

 

Abortion: Resisting the Fetal Holocaust:

"Abortion: Word Warriors for Life"

"Abortion: The Party is Pro-life -- or the Party's Over"

"Abortion: What's in a Name?"

"Abortion: Murder by Rationalization"

"Abortion and the States: One More Lap Around the Track -- or Worse"

"Abortion: The Lies at its Root"

"Abortion: The Tragic Case of Poland"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"The specific political economy a Christian finally endorses cannot be pulled from a hat.  Rather, one’s political view is chosen by careful reflection upon Christianity’s fundamental truths and upon the relationship of those fundamental truths to the presuppositions of the political or economic theory under consideration, as well as upon that theory’s historical record.  But of those varied historical and philosophical considerations, the ethical must predominate.  Mere productivity and efficiency are not enough.  Christians can properly endorse only those policies that are just both in their ends and in their means."
—Michael Bauman, "Reality, Religion and the Marxist Retreat"

 

 
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date modified:
10 July 2006