The Just Third Way

It’s not often that we come across a new term — meaning a term new to us — that actually makes sense.   Last Friday we got lucky, a...

We saw last week that existing savings is not a barrier to new capital formation, and thus not to a program of expan...

This has been a very busy week administratively and logistically . . . which means that “visible” advances are not...

This past Tuesday we looked at the claim that financial capital is necessarily finite, and that new capital formation is necessaril...

Yesterday we explained (to our own satisfaction, if no one else’s) that there can be no such thing as a finite amount of capital wi...

As some of you may have noticed, we put the blog on “autopilot” for two days last week to attend the annual ESOP Association confer...

We’ve noticed an upswing lately in the number of people who claim to be Chestertivists or distributonians (or whatever incarnation ...

The recent volatility in the stock market reinforces the fact that the stock market has little or nothing to do wi...

We got into it with a “distributist” again.   At least (for a change) the distributist was willing to listen instead...

No sooner had we explained that the whole idea of “debt free money” is an oxymoron than we got a response patiently ...

We do get the most interesting comments on occasion, especially from people who have only skimmed through what we’ve written or jus...

Last week we looked at the “laws” of social justice.   Today we look at the characteristics of social justice.   Of ...

Any editorial comment on recent events would be superfluous, as they either explain themselves, or are manifestly ...

In 1948, CESJ co-founder Rev. William J. Ferree, S.M., Ph.D., condensed and popularized his 1941 doctoral thesis, The Act of Social...

As we saw yesterday, Aquinas gave the same name — “legal justice” — to the general virtue Aristotle described, and ...

In yesterday’s posting we promised to start looking at the right idea of social justice.   This is not as easy as it...

Okay, we admit we’ve been out of SF&F for a while, were never BNF (or even LNF), never went to a Con(vention), and while we mig...

Last night’s news about the U.S. “jobs market” predicted that today’s report would show strong gains.   It showed ...

One of the not-so-amazing things we’ve discovered while trying to get some “serious” writing done — free plug alert: Easter Witness...

In our previous posting we saw how, by the simple expedient of “re-editing the dictionary” — shifting the source of ...