The Just Third Way

The big Just Third Way news this week is the meeting in Rome of two long-time CESJ members and supporters — and we have pictures!   This mig...

We have been saying for years that many people get fundamental principles wrong.   This is understandable given the state of education today...

    When a Few Own Everything: Can the Economic Democracy Act Restore Broad Ownership?   Today’s podcast argues that extreme wealth c...

The good news this week is that Pope Leo XIV’s new encyclical, “Magnifica Humanitas,” has definitely been scheduled for release on Monday, M...

In our previous posting on this subject , we looked at the theoretical complaints of economists the AI engine “Claude” gave to explain why e...

When a handful of people own most of the productive assets in an economy, everyone else pays the price — in stagnant wages, hollowed-out dem...

With the signing of Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical scheduled for today, there is the potential for the dawning of a new day for economic an...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE   MAKING SENSE OF SOCIAL JUSTICE A Guide to Understanding Magnifica Humanitas is Now Available in Spanish ...

PARA PUBLICACIÓN INMEDIATA DAR SENTIDO A LA JUSTICIA SOCIAL Una guía para comprender Magnifica Humanitas ya está disponible en espa...

Word on the street is Pope Leo XIV is issuing a new “encyclical” on May 15, 2026.   The document, provisionally titled Magnifica Humanitas ...

A new “encyclical” provisionally title “Magnifica Humanitas” (ouch!) is scheduled for release this coming Friday.    So . . . what has this ...

The stranger things get, the more they seem to stay the same.   This, of course, argues that things are already so strange that they could h...

In our last exciting episode, we looked at a list of reasons the AI engine “Claude” gave to explain why economists reject Louis Kelso’s ...

The thought of William Winslow Crosskey (1894-1968) is fundamental to the Just Third Way — and not because CESJ’s president, Norman G. Kurla...

Making a long story short, the conclusion to be drawn from this week’s news items is that it would be better all ’round if the powers-that-b...

Recently a CESJ stalwart decided to ask “Claude” a question.   Actually, this particular individual has been asking Claude a lot of question...

. . . and the pope is winning?   We have kept more or less quiet about the back-and-forth between Pope Leo XIV and President Trump because 1...

This week’s news items seem oddly similar to previous weeks . . . which maybe isn’t so strange given the rising level of chaos everywhere.  ...

And, of course, What do you mean by “America”?   U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has come out with a warning against something he...

Of course, the first thing that pops into your head on hearing the words “Economic Democracy” is socialism of some variety or other, but tha...

Again the news items we’ve collected (entirely without prejudice, of course) graphically illustrate what has increasingly become the absolut...

Just in time for “Tax Day,” we have a posting on . . . taxation!   How original!   Today we are taking on the so-called “marriage penalty” t...

Somehow, we missed this video when searching for videos by or about Robert Maynard Hutchins, one of the people behind the “Great Books” prog...

Not too much new in the “news” this week, but perhaps there are a few items of interest.   Frankly, it’s difficult to know what tack to take...

    One of the goals of the Economic Democracy Act is to “democratize” ownership of capital.   By this we do not mean the collectivi...

    Last week we looked at a Beginner’s Guide to the Classics — books, that is.   Today, assuming you are all agog to start the proce...