Yes, the stock market is soaring. No, we don’t know why. What we do know, however, is that there have
been a number of developments over this past week that bode well for the Just
Third Way. These range from the
unexpected popularity of some “Just Third Way fiction,” to the even more
unexpected discovery of some “long lost” papers relating to the complementarity
of solidarism and the Just Third Way:
• Out of the blue today, CESJ received a “treasure trove” of
papers relating to a never-completed project to do a biography of Señor Alberto
Martén Chavarría, an important figure in Central American politics and the
founder of Solidarismo Costariccense. Señor
Martén worked with the noted solidarist Father Oswald von Nell-Breuning, S.J.,
who with fellow Königswinterkreis
member Father Gustav Gundlach, S.J., was called to Rome to consult on Quadragesimo Anno in 1931 by Pope Pius
XI.
• Searching through old newspaper archives, we have found
some interesting information about Dr. Harold G. Moulton, author of The Formation of Capital (1935),
an important book in the development of the monetary policy of the Just Third
Way. We hope to present some of the
information in a future blog series.
• The current blog series on “Saint Gilbert Keith
Chesterton?” has excited a little controvsersy, apparently. Some of today’s supporters of the programs of
Henry George have taken exception to statements made about George in
contemporary newspaper accounts of his 1886 campaign for mayor of New York City
and that have been reported in the blog.
Unfortunately, as the articles date from 1886 and 1887, it is not
possible to reach the original authors to find out if the reports are truly
accurate, or if reports half a century after the events occurred are more
reliable. Offsetting these minor
negatives is the series of e-mails and tweets we’ve gotten expressing approval
and interest in CESJ’s “take” on the “distributist” proposals of
Chesterton. Perhaps not surprisingly,
only a few of these have come from the United States and England, with the bulk
coming from countries such as Spain, Italy, and Argentina.
• Again, the big news is that Freedom Under God is once again available after nearly
three-quarters of a century. CESJ is now taking bulk/wholesale orders
(please, no individual sales). The per
unit price for ten or more copies is $16.00 (20% 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.
Individual copies are available from Amazon
and Barnes and Noble,
as well as by special order from many bookstores.
• 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.)
• So Much Generosity,
the collection of essays about the fiction of Nicholas Cardinal Wiseman, John
Henry Cardinal Newman, and Monsignor Robert Hugh Benson by Michael D. Greaney,
CESJ’s Director of Research. The book is
now available on Amazon
and Barnes and Noble,
and is also available on Kindle.
Many of the essays incorporate elements of the Just Third Way. The book is priced at $20.00, and there is a
20% discount on bulk orders (i.e.,
ten or more), which can be ordered by sending an e-mail to publications [at]
cesj [dot] org.
• Soon after putting new covers on a series of e-books
published a few years ago by Universal Values Media, Inc. (UVM), sales rose
dramatically. UVM is a JBM company that
promotes universal moral values in the media through its products.
• As of this morning, we have had
visitors from 63 different countries and 51 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, India, and Australia. The most
popular postings this past week were “Thomas Hobbes on Private Property,” “Aristotle
on Private Property,” “The Fulton Sheen ‘Guy’,” “Saint Gilbert Keith Chesterton?,
XIX: Henry George and the Catholic Church,” and News from the Network, Vol. 6,
No. 44.”
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.
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