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In a recent guest column at Anne Helen Peterson’s Culture Study, Wendy Robinson wrote about her forays into the world of Peloton, on a growing phenomenon: the lack of community which people find within the ecosystems created by consumer products.[1] […]
Gillis HarpFeaturedEconomics and BusinessEvangelicalism
The rehabilitation of socialism’s reputation among Millennials and Gen Z has grabbed the attention of political analysts in recent years: “Socialism as Popular as Capitalism Among Young Adults in U.S.” (Gallup). “Majority of Gen Z Americans Hold Negative Views of […]
Ian MosleyFamilyFeaturedCultureEconomics and Business
The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill has led to much reflection on the state of the modern evangelical soul. One thing that stood out from the podcast is that Driscoll and many like him have capitalized on the perception […]
Rory GrovesFamilyFeaturedEconomics and Business
An epochal shift is underway; one that social scientists will dissect for decades. And it doesn’t bode well for corporate America. In what economists are calling ‘The Great Resignation’, one-third of the employed workforce—over 47 million laborers—quit their jobs in […]
Ben ChristensonFeaturedEconomics and Business
Oliver Burkeman. Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021. 288 pp, $27.00. St. Augustine taught that the fundamental condition of human beings is ignorance and difficulty. This truth can seem outdated in the […]
Christine NorvellFeaturedEconomics and Business
I’ve made huge lists of everything I’ve done in my short life. I’ve accomplished so much, and I can show you my work, says Solomon. It’s too familiar. Lists have been a lifeline for me as a working mom, a […]
Anthony BarrFeaturedEconomics and Business
The primary problems Big Tech creates are not primarily economic, but political. As such, anti-trust measures only brush against the main issue.
David BlackFeaturedHistoryEconomics and Business
“This is wrong,” the witch said. “Witches turn children into cookies. Children don’t turn witches into cookies. It’s against the natural order.”
Benjamin WoollardFeaturedEconomics and Business
On a number of the shelves in my home sit baskets that I have made myself. I took up the craft out of a need for contrast in what is a largely abstract existence, mostly consisting of reading and computer […]
Matthew StokesFeaturedEconomics and BusinessEvangelicalism
Many calls to evangelical minimalism implicitly rely upon a relationship to material goods that is hostile to good work and reliant upon global capitalism.
Josh PaulingFeaturedEconomics and Business
COVID-19 uncertainties provide a cultural moment for re-evaluating what really constitutes the good life. While the mandatory homecoming of sorts drags on, it sheds fresh and favorable light on home economies of simplicity and some measure of self-sufficiency. Stay-at-home orders […]
David FrankFeaturedEconomics and BusinessFormation
During a pandemic, it always feels dark. Many future unknowns await us. But we can learn from an unknown Jewish prisoner who penned this line in a poem he wrote within his concentration camp cell.