Interest in the new Just Third Way Edition of Fulton J.
Sheen’s 1940 classic Freedom Under God
remains strong, and now that the latest government crisis is “settled” we can
expect more people to begin searching for real solutions instead of stopgap
actions that ultimately only make things worse.
Naturally we recommend that people begin investigating the claims of the
Just Third Way:
• Again, the big news is that a short time ago we released Freedom Under God for printing. CESJ
is now taking bulk/wholesale orders (please, no individual sales). Until December 31, 2013, the per unit price
for 10-99 copies is $16.00 (20% discount), for 100-499 copies is $14.00 (30%
discount), for 500-999 copies is $12.00 (40% discount), and for 1,000 or more
copies is $10.00 (50% discount).
Shipping is extra. Send an e-mail
to “publications [at] cesj [dot] org”
stating how many copies you want and the street address (no P. O. Boxes) where
you want them delivered. We will get
back to you with the total cost, how to pay, and estimated delivery time. All payments must be made in advance, and
orders are placed only after payment clears.
• CESJ offers a 10%
commission on the retail cover price on bulk sales of publications. If you broker a deal with, for example, a
school or civic organization that buys a publication in bulk (i.e., ten copies or more of a single
title), you receive a commission once a transaction has been completed to the
satisfaction of the customer. Thus, if
you get your club or school to purchase, say, ten cases of Freedom Under God (280 copies) or any other CESJ or UVM
publication, the organization would pay CESJ $3,920.00 (280 copies x $20 per
copy, less a 30% discount), plus shipping (the commission is calculated on the
retail cost only, not the shipping). You would receive $560.00. Send an e-mail to “publications [at] cesj [dot] org” for copies of flyers of CESJ and
UVM publications. (CESJ project
participants and UVM shareholders are not
eligible for commissions.)
• Norman Kurland and James Burch had a meeting on Capitol
Hill to discuss the “B Corporation” concept and how it relates to the expanded
ownership movement and Justice-Based Management. A key feature of the meeting was to introduce
at least one legislator to the possibility of financing future growth with new
money created by the expansion of commercial bank credit backed up with the
Federal Reserve, returning the central bank to its original purpose of
providing adequate liquidity for the private sector, not for government.
• Norman Kurland has been invited to lecture at Salisbury
State University in Maryland on the need to reintegrate concepts of justice
into business at all levels. The lecture
will be before a class of MBA candidates.
• The talk is now about granting a one-year “stay” on the
personal mandate for “Obamacare.” All of
this could be avoided, of course, if there had been serious consideration of
CESJ’s healthcare proposal. There is, of
course, still time, but it would have avoided a great deal of acrimony.
• We received an unofficial report of the outcome of the
Mark Shea/Michael Voris debate that took place on October 8, 2013, and which
was billed as “One Night. One
Fight. Who’s Got It Right?”, a
knockdown, drag-out intellectual slugfest.
According to the report (and as we predicted), it came to nothing. Evidently the combatants agreed to disagree,
an equivocation that means whatever you want it to mean, and doesn’t settle
anything — just like the squabbling over the debt ceiling.
• As of this morning, we have had
visitors from 61 different countries and 47 states and provinces in the United
States and Canada to this blog over the past two months. Most visitors are from
the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, South Africa, and Australia. The
most popular postings this past week were “Aristotle on Private Property,” “Thomas
Hobbes on Private Property,” “The Purpose of Production,” “The Fulton Sheen
‘Guy’,” and “Apocalypse Now?”
Those are the happenings for this week, at least that we
know about. If you have an
accomplishment that you think should be listed, send us a note about it at
mgreaney [at] cesj [dot] org, and we’ll see that it gets into the next
“issue.” If you have a short (250-400
word) comment on a specific posting, please enter your comments in the blog —
do not send them to us to post for you.
All comments are moderated anyway, so we’ll see it before it goes up.