Many things are in
the works right now that we expect to bear fruit over the coming year, but not
much on which we can report. Mostly what
we have this week are a few comments on ongoing projects and what we expect to
do in the near future:
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| Senator Russell Long (left), Norman Kurland (right). |
• Michigan Meeting at Lincoln Park.
The meeting that had to be cancelled due to a flight cancellation has
tentatively been rescheduled for April or May.
This may actually have been a blessing in disguise, as Dr. Norman
Kurland, the key presenter, has some other, similar presentations scheduled,
and the extra time will not only allow more participants to be invited, it will
allow for a more polished presentation after more rehearsals.
• Official Book Release. Monday,
January 15, 2018, was the official release date of Ten Battles Every Catholic Should Know. Although only a Just Third Way book in the
larger sense of the term, the publisher has indicated interest in doing a more
JTW-themed book should this one be a success.
Fortunately, the book is already doing well, and one of the editors has
already expressed interest in a follow-up project with a more integrated Just
Third Way theme.
• Red Star Over Bethlehem. The new introduction to the book is in the
final stages of editing, and we expect to have a first draft of the foreword
within the next couple of weeks (right, Dr. Steve?). We are currently also following up with an
expert in natural law to ensure that our take on that is consistent with sound
Aristotelian and Thomist philosophy.
From the “pre-reviews” we’ve gotten from proofreaders, this book
promises to be an important contribution to the discussions on social justice
as well as to the history of the term and what it has meant over the years in
different circles.
• Government Shutdown? Until the United States adopts Capital
Homesteading monetary and tax reforms, expect this sort of thing to continue
and become increasingly frequent. It is
not enough to slow down the rate of growth in the deficit. It is becoming increasingly important that
steps be taken to eliminate it, and put the American economy back on a
productive basis, not mistaking stock market gambling for true economic growth.
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| Not to use Smile would be a CATastrophe! |
• Shop online and support CESJ’s work! Did
you know that by making your purchases through the Amazon Smile program, Amazon will make a contribution to CESJ? Here’s
how: First, go to https://smile.amazon.com/. Next, sign in to your Amazon 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.
• Blog Readership. We have had visitors from 44 different
countries and 45 states and provinces in the United States and Canada to this
blog over the past week. Most visitors are from the United States, Canada, India,
the United Kingdom, and Australia. The
most popular postings this past week in descending order were, “The American
Chesterton, XI: The Disciple of Common Sense,” “The Time for New Wine,” “News
from the Network, Vol. 11, No. 02,” “The Abraham Federation,” and “Thomas
Hobbes on Private Property.”
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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