Category: Current Affairs
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Student Loan Forgiveness and Thinking Christianly
This month Allan Bevere and I discuss student loan forgiveness, reflecting not just on the merits of proposed loan cancellations but also on how we use (and abuse) scripture to justify policy ideas.
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Confederate Monuments Are A Rewrite of History, Not A Remembrance
Confederate monuments were the product of a campaign to rewrite history, not to preserve it. There were few Confederate monuments thirty years after the Civil War ended in 1865. The placement of monuments came in two waves, the first much larger than the second. One wave began at the turn of the last century, and…
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Saturday Links
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in Asia, China, Current Affairs, Economic Development, Economics, Evolution, Gender and Sex, Immigration, Links – Saturday, Religion, Science, Sports and Entertainment, Technology, Technology (Biotech & Health), Technology (Digital, Telecom, & Internet), Technology (Energy), Technology (Food & Water), Technology (Manufacturing & Construction)), Technology (Transportation & Distribution), Wealth and Income, Weatlh and Income Distribution1. The United States had its financial bubble. Europe is having one too. Is China next? If it is, it could reshape the global economy and radically reshape the Chinese government. Here is an interesting piece about China’s real estate bubble. 2. Robert Tracinski thinks we are in the midst of a Third Industrial Revolution.…
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What the Public Knows – In Pictures, Maps, Graphs and Symbols
Pew Research: What the Public Knows – In Pictures, Maps, Graphs and Symbols The latest update of the Pew Research Center’s regular News IQ quiz uses a set of 13 pictures, maps, graphs and symbols to test knowledge of current affairs. (To take the quiz yourself before reading this report, click here.) At the high…
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Amish Renegades Are Accused in Bizarre Attacks on Their Peers
New York Times: Amish Renegades Are Accused in Bizarre Attacks on Their Peers BERGHOLZ, Ohio — Myron Miller and his wife, Arlene, had been asleep for an hour when their 15-year-old daughter woke them and said that people were knocking at the door. Mr. Miller, 45, a stocky construction worker and an Amish bishop in…