Archive for John W. Robbins
Book Review: Christianity and Economics in the Post-Cold War Era: The Oxford Declaration and Beyond Edited by Herbert Schlossberg, Vinay Samuel, and Ronald J. Sider
Eerdmans Publishing Company • 1994 • 149 pages • $11.00 paperback Dr. Robbins is president of the Trinity Foundation. As part of an ecumenical effort to articulate a religious view of economics and economic systems, 36 conferees describing themselves as evangelical—an undefined term which apparently means neither Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, nor liberal Protestant—gathered in [...]
1Mar1997 | John W. Robbins | 0 comments | ContinuedDo the Right Thing
Dr. Robbins is professor of political philosophy and Director of The Freedom School at the College of the Southwest in Hobbs, New Mexico. Dr. Walter Williams, Chairman of the Department of Economics at George Mason University in Virginia, a syndicated columnist for the past 15 years, has collected his best newspaper columns from 1990 to [...]
1Jun1996 | John W. Robbins | 1 comment | ContinuedBook Review: Race and Culture: A World View by Thomas Sowell
New York: Basic Books • 1994 • 331 pages • $25.00 Thomas Sowell, a prolific economist and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution in California, has written an important and heretical book on the relationship between race and culture- heretical, that is, as judged by the prevailing dogmas of social science. Sowell states the obvious, [...]
1May1995 | John W. Robbins | 0 comments | ContinuedPerspective: My Brothers Keeper
The first murder in history was a fratricide. In malice and jealousy, the first son of Adam and Eve lured his younger brother into a field and slaughtered him there. The crime was heinous, but Cain’s defense has done more lasting damage. When God, knowing the answer quite well, asked Cain, “Where is Abel, your [...]
1Nov1993 | John W. Robbins | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Coming of Christ
This December 25 more than a billion people will celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ. The celebration is doubly ironic, for the date is not his birthday, and many celebrants have forgotten—or perhaps have never learned—the meaning of his birth. One of the most enthusiastic celebrants of Christmas I have known was an atheist. She [...]
1Dec1992 | John W. Robbins | 1 comment | ContinuedPerspective: My Brothers Keeper
The first murder in history was a fratricide. In malice and jealousy, the first son of Adam and Eve lured his younger brother into a field and slaughtered him there. The crime was heinous, but Cain’s defense has done more lasting damage. When God, knowing the answer quite well, asked Cain, “Where is Abel, your [...]
1Nov1992 | John W. Robbins | 0 comments | ContinuedPerspective: The Language of Liberty
The idea and practice of human liberty—religious, civil, political, and economic—have been perhaps the most important social contribution of Western culture, yet today the idea of liberty has been all but forgotten in public debate and in the corridors of power. When the language of liberty is still heard, it has a quaint sound, the [...]
1Aug1992 | John W. Robbins | 0 comments | ContinuedPerspective: The Language of Liberty
The idea and practice of human liberty—religious, civil, political, and economic—have been perhaps the most important social contribution of Western culture, yet today the idea of liberty has been all but forgotten in public debate and in the corridors of power. When the language of liberty is still heard, it has a quaint sound, the [...]
1Jul1992 | John W. Robbins | 0 comments | Continued-
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