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I’ve spent a lifetime trying to better discern Jesus’ great parable on the organic tension between God and mammon. I am always smitten with Jesus’ admonition that shrewdness matters profoundly in the navigation of life. Having lived my professional life in Washington, D.C., this tension between the world and Providence seems to come to the fore more often than any other single pressure point, and none more so than in our contemporary era. Plato, the founder of Western philosophy, wrote 25 timeless texts. Among his nuggets of gold: “The measure of a man is what he does with power.” Plato was imagining measurable power over the lives of others. I suspect the Greek philosopher also was thinking about the power each of us has over ourselves, the idea of self-mastery—and not merely power over others. An observation often attributed to another great man in the public square, Abraham Lincoln, but probably not written or said by him, has a cogency that rings true: “Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.” Presidential historian Tevi Troy, a prolific and lyrical writer, has written a delightful new book examining the organic relationships between U.S. presidents and captains of commerce and industry during various vicissitudes of public life. Troy was a White House colleague of mine in the Bush-Cheney administration. For tourists and other visitors in Washington during this shank of summer, where presidential history seems to lurk around every corner, his book “The Power and the Money: The Epic Clashes Between Commanders in Chief and Titans of Industry” (Regnery History) is precisely the right book to pack in the suitcase. “The Power and the Money” helps us better understand how presidents and businessmen and businesswomen have navigated the endlessly fascinating dance of power and influence. Making more than cameo appearances in Troy’s book: Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, J.P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, and a couple of Henrys—Ford and Luce. This is a page-turner to be sure, and 12 other outsize business personalities charm its narrative. A writer for The Jerusalem Post observed: “What readers will find fascinating is the increasing entanglements of big government with big business, neither of which is popular with the American people.”  Troy effectively negates and dispels much of what we think we know about this so-called bipartisan entanglement of business and politics. Which is to say that in the American experience, this relationship has been going on from early in our republic. And the author rightly demonstrates that it is a series of relationships that often redounds to the benefit of the public—not the opposite—across nearly 150 years of fascinating American history. I am particularly interested in how faith infuses or suffuses the relationships between presidents and business leaders. Troy memorably evokes two of these. The founder of Time magazine, Henry Luce, was born in Penglai, Yantai, China, and raised there by Christian missionaries. Luce was bathed in a deep faith from boyhood. Decades ago, Luce famously gave voice to how Christian faith informed not only his business practices but his high profile in the public square: “I am a Protestant, a Republican, and a free enterpriser, which means I am biased in favor of God, Eisenhower, and the stockholders of Time Inc.—and if anyone who objects doesn’t know this by now, why the hell are they still spending 35 cents for the magazine.” A corollary is the so-called Golden Age of Hollywood. The Warner Brothers, Henry and Jack, were of Jewish faith and their religious tradition was directly related to their pro-American films. The Warners loved America deeply, and their studio’s films reflected that infusion of faith and patriotism. The famous movie director Billy Wilder once said: “Studios had faces then. They had their own style. They could bring you blindfolded into a movie house, and you opened it and looked up and you knew.”  It is refreshing that an important presidential historian does not ipso facto join the conventional narrative that businesspeople are often up to no good and are only or mostly self-interested when it comes to interaction with the political class—and especially our presidents. Troy gives us ample examples for good and bad, to be sure. But what is so nourishing and refreshing about this fine new book is that Troy shows the measurable benefits of having keen business minds involved in the dance of public policy, where the tension between God and mammon is as timeless, depthless, and roiling as ever. We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post Presidents, Power, Faith, and the Boardroom appeared first on The Daily Signal.

An employment judge in the United Kingdom ruled three white police officers were passed over for a promotion because of their race. According to BBC, a Thames Valley Police superintendent was told to appoint an “Asian” sergeant to the rank of detective inspector to improve diversity of its senior staff. [1] Following the publication of an Employment Tribunal judgement which found that @ThamesVP discriminated against three white police officers because of their race when appointing an officer to a Priority Crime Team, @matthew_barber has released the following statement: pic.twitter.com/LSEyIieVPa — Thames Valley OPCC (@TV_PCC) August 14, 2024 “It is critical in building confidence across our whole community that there is never any discrimination in policing. In this case, the Employment Tribunal found that the Force had discriminated against the claimants on the basis of race. This is clearly unacceptable and should not have happened,” Matthew Barber, Police & Crime Commissioner for Thames Valley, said. “I recognise Thames Valley Police’s commitment to building a workforce that represents the whole community, but it is apparent from the judgement that the Force was wrong on this occasion in that the processes it followed were not fair, transparent, or competitive,” he continued. “I am clear that Thames Valley Police must treat everyone equally when making appointments, determined solely on merit. I will ensure a full review into the processes, policies and approach by the Force to ensure this cannot happen in the future,” he added. White police officers passed over for promotion win race discrimination claim https://t.co/vtfe0onRL7 — Harry Tangye (@Ex_arv_sgt) August 13, 2024 Per BBC: Three officers brought employment tribunal proceedings against the force, claiming to have been disadvantaged because of their race – described by the tribunal as “white British”. Employment Judge Robin Postle said the decision “clearly constituted positive discrimination”. Det Insp Phillip Turner-Robson, Insp Graham Horton and Kirsteen Bishop, a custody inspector, had been working with the force for between 19 and 26 years when they were blocked from applying for the role, an employment tribunal was told. The tribunal heard that in August 2022 plans were discussed for a job advert for a detective inspector in the force’s “priority crime team” at Aylesbury to be put out as soon as possible. Having been made aware of the vacancy, Det Insp Turner-Robson expressed his interest on the same day, the Norwich tribunal heard. But the following month, Supt Emma Baillie made the decision to move Sgt Sidhu, whose forename was not provided, into the role without undertaking any competitive process or advertising the vacancy to staff, the tribunal was told. According to reports, the superintendent was told to “make it happen” by the deputy chief constable. “Superintendent Baillie and no doubt the deputy chief constable had been warned of the risk of operating such a policy,” the tribunal said, according to Independent. White Officers Win Discrimination Claim Against Thames Valley Police Over Diversity-Driven Promotion Three experienced white police officers from @ThamesVP have won a significant employment tribunal after a judge ruled that they were unfairly passed over for promotion due to… pic.twitter.com/qVb14lQro8 — Emergency-Services.News (@ES_News_) August 13, 2024 Independent reports: Employment Judge Robin Postle concluded that the three white officers were directly discriminated by reason of the protected characteristic of race. “The Superintendent made a decision to move Police Sergeant Sidhu into the detective inspector role without any competitive assessment process taking place,” the Judge said. “It went beyond mere encouragement, disadvantaging those officers who did not share Sergeant Sidhu’s protected characteristic of race and who were denied the opportunity to apply for the role. “It was not a proportionate means of achieving a legitimate aim. “Clearly, Superintendent Baillie was only focused on ‘making it work’ rather than carrying out a balancing exercise. “Superintendent Baillie’s decision… clearly constituted positive discrimination.”