It’s
been a few weeks since the election, and a great many people still don’t know
what to make of President-elect Trump.
We can’t say that we do, either, but we know one thing: whoever is in
the White House, if he or she doesn’t have the Just Third Way and Capital
Homesteading, the only thing the American people will have is more of the same,
only more so. To keep that from
happening, here are this week’s happenings:
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| We anticipate the usual calm discussion. |
• At the CESJ Executive Committee
meeting on Monday of this week, there was some discussion on how to make the
new administration of President-elect Trump aware of the Just Third Way and
Capital Homesteading. It was decided
that the subject needed more discussion than was possible in a business
meeting, and a special meeting was scheduled.
• Intern Eliza R. had Norman
Kurland in to lecture to the Brigham Young University Washington Seminar on the
Just Third Way. A number of the students
asked some very insightful, even provocative questions, demonstrating that they
had read the assigned material ahead of time.
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| Politics as usual? Or the Just Third Way? |
• Norman Kurland spoke with a local politician with ties to a nearby
Catholic college. The politician said he
was impressed with Norm’s analysis of the pro-life movement, and agreed that a
Just Third Way approach might help fill a gap in the economic and political
strategies in ways that can appeal to all people. The politician expressed great interest in
the work of William Winslow Crosskey (1894-1968), whose book, Politics and the Constitution in the History
of the United States (University of Chicago Press, 1953), details how the
U.S. Supreme Court expanded judicial review far beyond the bounds intended by
the framers of the Constitution first in an effort to preserve slavery, then to
assert the Court’s power over Congress, making the Court the final arbiter on
legislation with the power to create law as well as adjudicate disputes.
• Dave M. in Hartford, CT, reported he has formed a core group to start a
CESJ chapter there.
• This past Tuesday, CESJ heard from the acquisitions editor of a Catholic
publisher indicating that the publisher might be willing to discuss an
exclusive distribution agreement for Easter
Witness (below).
• 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.
• 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 62 different countries and 50 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, Russia, Canada,
and Italy. The most popular postings this past week in descending order were
“Thomas Hobbes on Private Property,” “Aristotle
on Private Property,” “The Feast of Christ the King?!?!?!?!?(!),” “The Purpose
of Production,” and “News from the Network, Vol. 9, No. 42.”
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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