Despite the dog
days (or, for dog lovers, the cat days . . . except there’s no Cat Star to
counter Sirius), there has been a good amount of action this week, starting off
with a group that has republished some important articles, and all without
having to be asked:
• We recently found out that a
group called “New World Standard
Critique” has republished one and a half articles by Louis Kelso and Norman
Kurland. The Kelso article is “The Great Savings Snafu,” Business
and Society Review, Winter, 1988.
The Kurland article(s) is a journal article split into two parts, “A New
Look at Prices and Money: The Kelsonian Binary Model for Achieving Growth Without
Inflation,” The Journal of
Socio-Economics, Vol. 30 pgs. 495-515.
Part
One is here, and Part
Two is here. The group even has a
menu item, “The
Just Third Way,” that gives full credit to Kelso and Kurland for their
work. There is even an
article by CESJ’s Director of Research, although he is misidentified as
“Deputy President” (we’ll see if we can get that fixed).
• Work is proceeding well on a new
book, tentatively titled Roots of
Dissent: How the State Became God.
Tying together developments in religious and civil society, the book
shows how bad religious social theory and bad political social theory joined
forces during the New Deal, and then went out to the rest of society in the
turmoil following the Second Vatican Council. A first draft may be completed
before the end of August. Although the
book is not, strictly speaking, “Catholic” or even religious, we will be
seeking an “imprimatur” so that readers (or those who care, anyway) can be
assured that we are not misrepresenting what the Catholic Church teaches about
itself. (We’d do the same with the Jews,
Muslims, Hindus, or any other group.
It’s only fair that if we say something about somebody or a group, he,
she, it, or they get a chance to see what we’re saying, put in their two cents,
and make any necessary corrections.)
• On Wednesday we had a very interesting interview with a prospective
volunteer who works for the Samueli Institute in Washington, DC. The PV is interested in helping CESJ beef up
its social media efforts. The Samueli
Institute explores the science of healing, and is located in the U.S. and
Germany.
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| No, not that Catholic lawyer. |
• We are still waiting word on two
previous submissions for an imprimatur, Easter
Witness, and Letter to a Catholic
Lawyer. Timing on these things is a
little loose, obviously, but we expect to hear any time now.
• 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.
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| You know why I am not smiling. |
• Here’s the usual announcement
about the Amazon Smile program,
albeit moved to the bottom of the page so you don’t get tired of seeing
it. 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.
• As of this
morning, we have had visitors from 40 different countries and 40 states and
provinces in the United States and Canada to this blog over the past two
months. Most visitors are from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany,
and India. The most popular postings this past week in descending order were
“G.K. Chesterton v. Modernism and Socialism,” “A Brief Outline of How to Save
the World (and Other Modest Goals),” “I’m New to Distributism,” “Future
Schacht, VIII: Infinite Velocity(a),” and “Future Schacht, VIII: Infinite
Velocity(b).”
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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