…on the austerity plans. And… its grown from there. My limited understanding of Iran is that the religious authorities have kept a grip on power -despite being disliked by the…

…perception of corruption by the ruling clerical elite, who control large portions of the economy through the bonyad religious foundations. An irony is that many of those enterprises were once…

…earliest coins, by the way, may well have been badges of honors and offices issued by religious authorities. Somehow people started exchanging them, and voila: physical currency. This had little…

…claim. The “certain quantity of work” also happens to be symptomatic of the adaptation from religious to secular theodicy. Classical political economists didn’t invent a static universe. They inherited it…

…much let MbS have his way on many matters, from economics, to foreign policy, to social policies (some of this good, e.g. letting women drive and putting the religious police…

…business activities of Kushner, although the full details of that are not fully known. MBS has been praised for restricting the Mutaween religious police as well as letting women drive…

…it has something to do with her deep religious faith which prevented her from using artificial birth control (see flustered Stephen Colbert). I don’t know if she has changed her…

…Jehudit, a political party descended from the terrorist Kahane group. Really, the Kahanists have been officially labeled a terrorist group by the US government and in the past have killed…

…non-profit insurance-like schemes, were used to help support community hospitals from colonial days on, often these hospitals were associated with religious denominations or orders but not always. 2. The Federal…

…being persecuted for compulsively joking about incinerating their political, ethnic and religious enemies. In part four of this series, I read Herbert Marcuse’s “Repressive Tolerance” so you don’t have to….