The Just Third Way

  In the previous posting on this subject, we looked at the belief that you can decide for yourself whether to obey a law, good or bad, and ...

This week’s podcast is the first episode in Mortimer Adler’s television show, The Great Ideas.   As described in the YouTube blurb, “This pr...

Some interesting news items this week, although not interesting enough . . . which would be the case if we could get the Economic Democracy ...

    At first glance, it sounds like another instance of President Trump standing up for the little guy.   That’s okay, we all need a ...

Capitalism, as this week’s podcast states, is one of those words you hear a lot but without knowing what it means.   Although talking about ...

We were rather hoping to have something to celebrate the 250 th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence . . . which w...

The recent decision by the United States Supreme Court that the Fourteenth Amendment guarantees citizenship to “every free-born person in th...

The full title of today’s podcast is “America’s Road Not Taken: George Mason, Louis Kelso, and the Means to Own the Future.”   By any title,...

In this week’s news notes, we go from the less than sublime to the more than ridiculous.   We will only allude to the SpaceX IPO in the firs...

The recent passing of Alan Greenspan triggered a moment or two of reflection regarding his position on the Just Third Way of Economic Person...

Today’s podcast argues that concentrated ownership of productive wealth creates economic, political, and social crises by starving consumer ...

    At this turning point in history — as if all points in history weren’t turning points of one kind or another — there seems to be ...

In the previous posting on this subject, we looked at the question whether Jesus, whom Christians consider a divine person, was also a human...

    Today’s podcast is a libertarian take on “distributism,” the system promoted by G. K. Chesterton and Hilaire Belloc.   It raises ...

Time again for another round of how much better things would be if we just got our acts together and adopted the Economic Democracy Act as ...

This coming Friday, June 12, 2026, is the 250 th anniversary of the adoption of the Virginia Declaration of Rights, the first article of wh...

In 1985, Center for Economic and Social Justice (CESJ) members initiated and mobilized bipartisan support for Congressional legislation w...

Some of the news items this week relate directly to the Just Third Way of Economic Personalism, so we will start off with those.   Otherwise...

    A short time ago we got into an incredibly pointless argument on FaceBook which began when someone made the somewhat “interesting...

Why Louis Kelso Invented the ESOP LBO: Capital Ownership, Jobs, and the Great Depression.   In today’s podcast, Louis O. Kelso (via an AI vo...

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...