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Subject: Socialism is not ethically superior to capitalism; Unraveling Islam; Top blog links
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| | | Unitarian leftist: Socialism is not ethically superior to capitalism | | By Rev. Ben Johnson • May 1, 2019 | | | | Socialism has made a resurgence in this generation, not least because of its deceptive moral appeal. Secular Millennials join liberal priests, pastors, and rabbis in saying that profits corrupt, unequal outcomes are immoral – and perhaps even Jesus would have been a socialist. Yet numerous people, secular and faithful, have weighed collectivism in the balance and found it wanting. One of the people who found socialism ethically inferior to capitalism came from an unlikely source: the Unitarian Church. His verdict? Socialism "is the necessary outcome, not of religion but of irreligion," he said. Redistribution of wealth slows moral development and creates evils worse than capitalism. | | | | Acton Line Podcast: The moral hazard of student debt; Unraveling Islam | | May 1, 2019 | | | | On this episode of Acton Line, Caroline Roberts speaks with Andrew Kloster, the deputy director of the Center for the Study of the Administrative State at George Mason University, about the student debt crisis. Kloster claims that the student debt crisis is the greatest moral hazard of our nation and explains how he sees the crisis panning out in the future. On the second segment, Acton's director of research, Samuel Gregg, sits down with Mustafa Akyol, senior research fellow at the Cato Institute, to address the topics of Islam and Freedom. Reformist trends in Islam reinterpret religious law by referring to the moral teachings at its core resulting in an intellectual battle going on in the Muslim world, where some believers condemn freedom as a Western invention while others praise it as Allah's blessing. Is Islam compatible with ideas of individual freedom? | | | | | | | | Trending on the Powerblog | | | | "Whatever you think of the socialism discussion," says economist Tyler Cowen, "should a Christian have and indeed display so much contempt for other human beings?" Cowen is referring, of course, to the latest sneering diatribe in the New York Times by theologian David Bentley Hart. Hart is one of the most intellectually arrogant men I've ever encountered. And like many smart and arrogant men, he's often blinded to his own ignorance about subjects outside his area of expertise. | | | | | On April 25th Mustafa Akyol, Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute and a regular lecturer at Acton University shared his thoughts on the prospects for liberty in the Islamic world. He discussed some of the serious social and political challenges that many Islamic nations face, and shared some ideas on how human rights and the idea of individual liberty might be strengthened. | | | | | When you come across a think piece so catastrophically wrong as David Bentley Hart's April 27 New York Times column, "Can We Please Relax About 'Socialism'?" you marvel at the effort, intentional or not. Hart, an Eastern Orthodox theologian and, as the Times puts it a "cultural critic," says he knows that, "in this country we employ terms like 'socialism' with wanton indifference to historical details and conceptual distinctions." He's right, but not in the way he thinks he's right. | | | | | Speaking at a recent a Service Employees International Union event, Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris said there there is a need for "banning right-to-work laws." It's unclear how Harris plans to do this from the federal level, as Right to Work laws are state laws that guarantee a person cannot be compelled to join or pay dues to a labor union as a condition of employment. | | | | | Reading George Will's latest article in National Review online praising the normalcy of the former Vice President Joe Biden, I couldn't help whispering to myself: What is properly normal about Uncle Joe? Biden is no Mr. Normalcy. On the contrary, he is a professional politician ever seeking a radical cause to call his own. | | | | | | | | |
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