Tag Archives: debt

Gimme Shelter

Posted on November 12, 2012 by nathanalbright

Recently, Switzerland has been invaded by tax collectors [1]. This is not entirely unexpected, but it provides an ominous hint of what governments do when they suspect (not entirely without reason) that people are attempting to escape or minimize their … Continue reading →

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A Nation Gets The Government It Deserves

Posted on November 7, 2012 by nathanalbright

In less than a week the nation of China will choose its new generation of leadership, and that will include a great deal of Generation Xers. Currently, China is being governed by a phony populist who pretends regard for the … Continue reading →

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A Narrow Road Between Two Cliffs

Posted on November 6, 2012 by nathanalbright

Anyone with a remote interest in political history can discover the immense evil of most eras of human history. A major part of the melancholy history of humanity is the wickedness of rulers, both in their acts of violence against … Continue reading →

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They’re Not Buying What You’re Selling

Posted on September 27, 2012 by nathanalbright

Every type of authority, whether over a nation or over an institution, works within a set of constraints. Once people lose the confidence of others, their freedom of action becomes limited, and it becomes impossible for them to do what … Continue reading →

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Sleep Is For The Weak

Posted on September 8, 2012 by nathanalbright

In my life I have often been reminded of the importance of sleep. As a high school student in the IB program, I was a bit careless about my sleeping habits, staying up far too late, wasting far too much … Continue reading →

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Proverbs 22:7: The Borrower Is Slave To The Lender

Posted on August 10, 2012 by nathanalbright

Last night, one of my students asked me to pray for the father of a friend of hers. The man had apparently been sold to slave traffickers in Thailand, and no one knows where he is (nor, sadly, are they … Continue reading →

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The Buck Stops Here

Posted on July 24, 2012 by nathanalbright

In times of great distress and worry, people tend to want help to come from someone and somewhere else. Nations are no different than people in wishing to find support from others as their own burdens are too much for … Continue reading →

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They’ll Just Have To Thole

Posted on July 12, 2012 by nathanalbright

Some years ago, when I was an undergraduate student reading the forward to Seamus Heaney’s translation of Beowulf, I came across a line where the poet was talking about the mournful Irish women of his childhood telling people sympathetically, but … Continue reading →

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Leviticus 25:35-38: The Interest-Free Economy

Posted on June 26, 2012 by nathanalbright

One of the frequent readers of this blog, who writes his own blog from a conservative Muslim tradition, and who appears to share an interest in my favorite Muslim historian, Ibn Khaldun, responsible for first discussing concept of asabiya that … Continue reading →

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Hard Habits To Break

Posted on June 22, 2012 by nathanalbright

As human beings we tend to exaggerate the capacity or inclination of of institutions for change, something I have written about a fair bit [1] [2]. Rather than repeat what I have already said, I would like to examine the … Continue reading →

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