Tuesday It is painful to watch the struggles of those blindsided by what is now a recession. Does one harden one’s heart and look the other way? That is easy to say, but not so easy to do. My restaurant had a regular customer for almost thirty years. One day, a few months ago, she approached me, as a friend, with tears in her eyes at her humiliation, and … [Read more...]
The Origins of Money
Tuesday Why is it important to understand the real origins of money? Is it not sufficient to observe the role that money performs in the marketplace? Is the exploration of money’s beginnings just an academic exercise? The answer to those last two questions is a resounding ‘no’. The world has been operating for 3,500 years on ‘obvious’ assumptions and they have turned … [Read more...]
The Future of Christianity
A Comment on Fred Reed’s ‘The Place of Christianity in History: A View from Without’ Mr Reed is one of my favourite authors, and not just because he is a fellow cigar smoker, or because his cigar has the scruffy look of the wonderful cigars that I used to hand-roll in Colombia, but because he is a good thinker and writer. That said, I think that in this instance it is most … [Read more...]