The difficulty in realizing that a truth beyond culture exists is perhaps the greatest single barrier to the life of love. Our culture is permeated by violence, militarism, materialism, patriotism to nation right or wrong, the supremancy of force, racism, sexism. Most people, seeking approval of their peers, never see how destructive these false values are. Here you are challenged to be dissatisfied with this cultural reality; to resist custom, habit, tradition, mores, social environment, even heredity; to act on your own conscience, to reform reality, to return good for evil, to love your...

The Price of Folly is a unique examination of the American form of Capitalism from the perspective of history, politics, law, and religion, as well as established economic theories. As the subtitle indicates, this book attempts to make economics and economic failures clear and understandable to the layperson. In a trip through time from Adam Smith to the 2012 election, it is a systematic critique of the plutocracy our American economic system has become, including a healthy dose of ethical theory and philosophical and religious ethics as the prism through which the reader can gain a fresh...