Gene Edward Veith Jr.'s Blog, page 129

The empire of beer

Right at a year ago, we posted Megabrewery–no, Gigabrewery about a proposed merger between the multinational company that makes Budweiser and the multinational company that makes Miller. There were lots of regulatory, anti-trust, and stockholder obstacles to that deal, but they have been overcome.  Anheuser-Busch InBev will take over SABMiller in a $100 billlion transaction that will [Read More...]

Another candidate for the anti-Christ

Some Christian leaders are saying that “globalism” is the anti-Christ.  Some are further saying that Christians should therefore vote for Donald Trump because he opposes globalism. For reasons I don’t fully understand, they consider national borders, protectionist economic policies, and national identity to be essential to Christianity (even though the modern nation state did not [Read More...]

Overriding Obama’s veto so victims can sue Saudi Arabia

Congress passed a bill allowing 9/11 victims to sue Saudi Arabia for enabling some of its citizens to carry out the attacks.  But President Obama vetoed the measure, saying that it would violate the principle that sovereign nations are immune from foreign lawsuits by private citizens and will open the United States to similar suits. Yesterday, in [Read More...]

ESV will be open to revision after all

Crossway recently announced that a new revision of the English Standard Version (ESV) translation of the Bible would be its final text and that it would not be updated any further.  But that decision has become controversial (especially because of an unusual rendering of Genesis 3:16). So the publishers have reversed their course, saying that [Read More...]

Don’t give them the Gospel?

We often assume that if we could only find the right way to reach those who are opposed to Christianity that we could win them over to the Gospel.  S. M. Hutchens, writing in the Touchstone blog, says that many of these folks don’t lack knowledge of Christ.  They are simply rejecting Him. Good point.  But then [Read More...]

Keeping our promises

First Things editor Alexi Sargeant says that “Trump’s policies, such as they are, usually come down to America breaking its promises.”  Read the argument after the jump and say what you think of it. From Alexi Sargeant, Trump’s Revolt Against Vows| First Things: Trump’s policies, such as they are, usually come down to America breaking its promises. [Read More...]

Family Vocation, revisted

It’s very gratifying for a writer to hear from a reader who “gets” what the writer was trying to say.  So I would like to humbly commend to you Heather Judd’s review of Family Vocation, excerpted and linked after the jump. Which reminds me that you have through Friday to sign up to win a free [Read More...]

Death of a vocation warrior

I’ve been in Texas quite a bit this summer and was introduced to the HEB grocery stores.  They aren’t just supermarkets; they are megamarkets–but they are also clean, spacious, well-laid out, and they carry everything you could possibly need. Now I know where the stores got their name (pronounced “H,” “E,” “B”):  They were started [Read More...]

Pro-abortion Catholics

Pro-abortion Catholics–members of “Catholics for Choice”–are running ads promoting their position, calling abortion a “social justice issue” and urging the repeal of the Hyde Amendment, which prevents taxpayer money from being to kill babies in the womb.  (This, by the way, is Hillary Clinton’s goal.) A piece by Mary Hallan Fiorito critiques this group.  She also [Read More...]

Debate post-mortem

Well, what did you think of the first presidential debate?  Who won, and in what sense?  How did the two candidates come across?  Did it change your mind about anything?