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J. Gresham Machen on Jaywalking and Civil Freedom: Watch This Video

by R. Scott Clark on May 15, 2013 | 29 Comments

J. Gresham Machen (1881–1936) was a scholar of the New Testament who taught at Princeton Theological Seminary. He, along with several others, left Princeton in 1929 to found Westminster Seminary. He was driven out of what is today known as the Presbyterian . . . Continue reading →

An Insurance Company With A Navy

by R. Scott Clark on January 16, 2014 | 1 Comment

Most of us were taught that government exists to provide for the common defense—a military and a social-safety net—but the actual budgets show that our government has become a big insurance company that also runs a navy. Read more» —Ben Sasse January . . . Continue reading →

The Utopia Of Leisure

by R. Scott Clark on February 13, 2014 | 2 Comments

in communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wished, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to . . . Continue reading →

Independence And The Practice Of The Faith

by R. Scott Clark on July 4, 2014 | 1 Comment
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On Independence Day 2014 we should remember that one of the principal concerns of the founders of the Republic was the freedom not only to assemble for public worship but also to practice one’s religion. Since the so-called (and self-described) Enlightenment of . . . Continue reading →

It’s All about Eschatology

by R. Scott Clark on April 9, 2015 | 4 Comments

…advocacy of big government is by its very nature a quest for power and control, for the ability to use force against others—a cause that naturally attracts the bitter and intolerant. …beneath all of these factors, there is something deeper, something more . . . Continue reading →

Socialism: The Utopia That Ends In Misery

by R. Scott Clark on March 15, 2016 | 1 Comment

No doubt the stated intentions are oh-so-pure and oh-so-good, like “liberte, egalite, fraternite.” It’s the sort of compassion Flannery O’Connor wrote of when she noted that “tenderness leads to the gas chamber.” That’s because, at the end of the day, socialism is . . . Continue reading →

Johannes Althusius (1557–1638): A Brief Introduction To A Pioneering Reformed Social Theorist

by R. Scott Clark on March 21, 2016

Introduction We seem to live in a Malthusian age, i.e., an age of increasing scarcity or perhaps fear of scarcity, where concern over how to divide an economic (and environmental) pie of limited size (called a “zero sum game”) has replaced the . . . Continue reading →