To Become Like Children: Christianity, Intellectual Humility, and the Difficulty of Admitting We Are Wrong

October 24, 2026November 3, 2026William Wang christianity, Commentary, Personal Reflections, Political Economy, Political Philosophy Tags: Admitting Mistakes, Austrian Economics, Christian Ethics, christianity, Classical Liberalism, Critical Thinking, faith, Friedrich Hayek, god, Ideological Polarization, Intellectual Honesty, Intellectual Humility, Knowledge Problem, Matthew 18:3, Motivated Reasoning, philosophy, Political Psychology, politics, religion, Repentance, Socialism Leave a comment

There is a sentence of Jesus Christ that I have been thinking about increasingly in recent years. In the Gospel of Matthew, after the disciples ask who is greatest in the kingdom of heaven, Jesus places a child among them and tells them: “unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven” (Matthew 18:3, NIV).

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Extremism, Interventionism, and Political Polarization

September 13, 2026September 13, 2026William Wang Commentary, Political Economy Tags: Austrian Economics, Charlie Kirk, Classical Liberalism, Economic Freedom, Economic Interventionism, faith, Freedom of Speech, Friedrich Hayek, history, Individual Liberty, Limited Government, philosophy, Political Extremism, Political Polarization, politics, Public Choice, religion, Religious Extremism, September 11, Socialism Leave a comment

One of the least productive habits in contemporary politics is the assumption that criticizing one political party automatically means supporting its principal opponent. In Spain, criticism of the PSOE is frequently interpreted as evidence that one must therefore support the Partido Popular or Vox. The same binary reasoning increasingly appears elsewhere: if one criticizes the progressive left, one must be “far right”; if one criticizes Donald Trump, one must belong to the left.

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