In Hoc Anno Domini

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Since 1949, The Wall Street Journal reprints a commentary ("In Hoc Anno Domini") every Christmas by Vermont C. Royster. Royster ran that paper’s editorial page from 1958 to 1971. Click here to read/print the commentary.

Some at The Wall Street Journal must view the commentary as a partial warning against "big government." For example, this section:

...But afterward Paul of Tarsus, too, was sore afraid. He feared that other Caesars, other prophets, might one day persuade men that man was nothing save a servant unto them, that men might yield up their birthright from God for pottage and walk no more in freedom.

I highly doubt St. Paul was worried about "big government" when he wrote his Epistle. Here's a much better response below from Mollie Hemingway on Twitter.

I know it’s a WSJ tradition to run this, but St. Paul’s concern is not big gov’t but power of Satan/sin/death. https://t.co/DhZ6hHYQkV

— Mollie (@MZHemingway) December 24, 2015