This has been a very busy week
administratively and logistically . . . which means that “visible” advances are
not very evident. Yet without all the
support work done behind the scenes, so to speak, there would be no “visible”
advances at all:
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| You haven't contributed to CESJ? You villain! |
• But before we start, here’s the usual announcement about
the Amazon Smile program. To participate in the Amazon Smile program
for CESJ, go to https://smile.amazon.com/. Next, sign in to your account. (If you don’t have an account with Amazon,
you can create one by clicking on the tiny little link below the “Sign in using
our secure server” button.) Once you
have signed into your account, you need to select CESJ as your charity — and
you have to be careful to do it exactly this way: in the
space provided for “Or select your own charitable organization” type “Center for Economic and Social Justice
Arlington.” If you type anything
else, you will either get no results or more than you want to sift
through. Once you’ve typed (or copied
and pasted) “Center for Economic and
Social Justice Arlington” into the space provided, hit “Select” — and you
will be taken to the Amazon shopping site, all ready to go.
• A series of responses to critics of the Just Third Way is
being prepared for publication on the website.
These are based on individual letters or papers prepared to answer
certain objections raised to various aspects of the Just Third Way by
academics, particularly in economics. We
believe that the responses must be authoritative, for no one has ever been able
to respond to them, except to say that he (or she) could refute everything that we said, but that they just didn’t
have the time. . . .
• CESJ’s latest book, Easter
Witness: From Broken Dream to a New Vision for Ireland, is available from Amazon
and Barnes
and Noble, as well as by special order from many “regular” bookstores. The book can also be ordered in bulk, which
we define as ten copies or more of the same title, at a 20% discount. A full case is twenty-six copies, and
non-institutional/non-vendor purchasers get a 20% discount off the $20 cover
price on wholesale lots ($416/case).
Shipping is extra. Send enquiries
to publications@cesj.org. An additional discount may be available for
institutions such as schools, clubs, and other organizations as well as
retailers. Initial sales are
encouraging, and CESJ (although interfaith) has applied for an “imprimatur”
which will allow the book to be used as a text in Catholic schools. We received word that the books ordered for
the Archbishop of Dublin have been shipped and should arrive today or early
next week.
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| This must be nipped in the bud! |
• According to at least one advanced thinker, we ought to
consider abolishing the family as the fundamental unit of society. Why?
Because having a safe and nurturing home environment is disadvantageous
to those who do not have the opportunity to ensure a more level playing
field. Or so says
Professor Adam Swift of the University of Warwick in England. Or not.
As Swift was quoted, demonstrating the clear moral and scholarly
leadership modern Academia provides, “I tend to believe that focusing on
improving things for the less fortunate is a better way to advance our society
than purposely making things worse for those who have more, but what do I
know?”
• As of this morning, we have had
visitors from 57 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 Brazil. The
most popular postings this past week in descending order were “Thomas Hobbes on
Private Property,” “The Purpose of Production,” “Why a Central Bank: More
Practical Considerations,” “Strictly Speaking,” and “Aristotle on Private
Property.”
Those are the happenings for this week, at least those 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, so we’ll see it before it goes up.
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