Note to David Brat: Free Markets Are Not Calvinist
On the occasion of Dave Brat’s rise to (perhaps short-lived) fame, I wish to take…
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Romney: “A Life Balanced Between Fear and Greed”?
Note the disconnect between religion, money, and politics.
Read MoreBiblical Capitalism, Tony Perkins Edition
Jesus was a businessman?
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Fix the Economy GOD’$ WAY: Dave Ramsey’s Great Christian Recovery
In Dave Ramsey’s plan, God looks an awful lot like a libertarian with a conservative American protestant streak.
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The Legacy of Bush, Gambler of Other People’s Fortunes, Is Still With Us
A look at Bush’s gambling habit is instructive as Obama works to fix the problems of his predecessor with a team cut from the Bush administration cloth.
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To Serve God and Wal-Mart: The Making of Christian Free Enterprise
According to a pathbreaking new book, Wal-Mart’s success in reframing traditional gender roles, bending the curricula of business schools, and sanctifying working-class consumer capitalism, help explain the connections between conservative politics, the market economy, and family values.
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Election Day: Hope, Heartbreak, Naiveté, and Studs Terkel
We may not have had a big map, or red and blue markers, or a flashing digital electoral vote count, but some of our favorite writers agreed to share a few words on this big day.
Read MoreTomorrow-Less Land
When rapacious quasi-capitalists start acting like there is no tomorrow, that’s when the economy hits the fan.
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This is not a Religion Column: Biblical Capitalism
The roots of the economic crisis tap directly into a movement within American fundamentalism. Much has been made of Palin’s Pentecostalism but her links to The Family go unnoticed.
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$50 Billion Fundamentalist Free Fall
Bernard Madoff’s $50 billion “big lie” is just one big symptom; it is virtually a cultural matter now, a matter of finding some way to shift the corporate culture of the nation and the economic habits of the people.
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