The way I understand it, mostly from listening to Bob Dylan songs of a certain vintage (“Already confessed/Don’t need to confess again”), once you’ve been washed in the flavorful blood of the Lamb you’re guaranteed passage to Heaven barring a renunciation of it all. Doesn’t matter what you do or say so long as you [...]

Naked Economics, by Charles Wheelan
The Prince, by Niccolò Machiavelli
This month takes us to a couple of tell-it-like it is versions of socio-economics, from Machiavelli’s stark discussion of what no one wanted to say about politics in 1512, to Wheelan’s comforting discussion of what everyone wanted to say about Capitalism in 2002. The Prince is [...]