Daily Archives: October 24, 2012

Bruce Bartlett’s The New American Economy 6: Entitlements, Deficits, and the VAT

My latest reading of Bruce Bartlett’s The New American Economy: The Failure of Reaganomics and a New Way Forward scared me, to tell you the truth. I usually get scared when I think about the ballooning of federal entitlements.  Bartlett, … Continue reading

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Beginning Goodenough’s By Light, Light

I started Erwin Goodenough’s 1935 book, By Light, Light: The Mystic Gospel of Hellenistic Judaism.  In my latest reading, Goodenough covered a variety of topics. 1.  One topic that Goodenough discussed was Philo’s belief that God had different powers or … Continue reading

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