Common Good, Common Ground, Common Sense
If Martin Luther King hadn’t achieved a kind of secular sainthood by his death, I doubt he would be near-universally acclaimed the way he is today. James Cobb writes: “According to an early 1968 Harris Poll, [MLK] died with a public disapproval rating of nearly 75% . . . The basis for today’s approval rating…
But God set me apart from the time I was born. He showed me his grace by appointing me. – Galatians 1:15 * The term “pro-life” can elicit so many emotional responses. The few words carry so much weight and connotation. Some associate “pro-life” with just pro-birth, abandoning families once a child is born. Others…
[Alexander Salter is the Georgie G. Snyder Associate Professor of Economics in the Rawls College of Business at Texas Tech University, the Comparative Economics Research Fellow at TTU’s Free Market Institute, and an associate editor of the Journal of Private Enterprise. He is a senior fellow at the Sound Money Project and a senior contributor to Young Voices. His first book, Money and…
[David Koyzis is a Global Scholar with Global Scholars Canada and has a PhD in government and international studies from the University of Notre Dame. He’s the author of Political Visions and Illusions and We Answer to Another: Authority, Office, and the Image of God. The following transcript has been edited for space and clarity.] * The American Commons:…