Our modern American government is a disaster. The state has become a totalitarian monster that has invaded every aspect of life. Whereas God designed the spheres of the family and the church to govern in their own respects, the modern state has sought to usurp the authority of these spheres.

You will not receive good economic instruction from our modern educational system. Most high schools and colleges do not require economics courses, and if they do, they often teach unsound economics. You will have to go elsewhere for good economic education. Thankfully, there are good resources out there, and many of them are free. And it’s never too late to start learning the subject. 

R.C. Sproul is known as a pastor and theologian, but he is also well versed in the field of philosophy. In The Consequences of Ideas, Sproul guides his readers through the most important thinkers of history. Some of them are Christians (Augustine, Aquinas, Kierkegaard), but many of them are not (Plato, Aristotle, Hume, Marx, Nietzsche, Darwin). Though only 200 pages and easy to read, Sproul successfully surveys 2,500 years of philosophy.

Logic is rarely studied in schools today, and its effects are evident. Even people with college degrees today cannot think critically or formulate good arguments. It is thus safe to say that individuals, and society as a whole, would benefit from the study of logic—the art of reasoning well.