JTW Podcast: Why Should You Read?

Ever read a book titled, Darkness at Noon (1940) by Arthur Koestle?  Maybe make that a little easier: ever read a book?  Know anything about history?  Know anything other than what you read on the internet or what the powers-that-be want you to read and think?  Maybe it’s time you did, if only because (as “the Great Books Prof” — Dr. Andrew Moore, an Associate Professor of Great Books at St. Thomas University — claims) “People Who Read are Harder to Control”.  Maybe this is what Mortimer Adler and Robert Maynard Hutchins were talking about and why they were so concerned about the degeneration of education:

News from the Network, Vol. 19, No. 10

Perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised that we seem to be living in a state of permanent paradox.  In our opinion, it began in earnest when Keynesian economics began its campaign of world conquest in the 1930s and took over the world by the 1950s.  Given that Keynes publicly admitted we would have to lie to ourselves for a century or so just to make his system work — and the century is almost up — people should probably be a trifle more suspicious than they are, and consider pushing for the Economic Democracy Act:

Economic Personalism and Distributism, Part II: Analysis

    In last week’s posting on this subject, we briefly answered four questions posed by a professor about distributism and the Just Third Way of Economic Personalism: 1) What lead you to become a proponent of this economic system in the first place? 2) What are a few of the most important principles of this economic system? 3) What do you see as the major advantages of this system? 4) What are the major challenges?

JTW Podcast: The Dangerous Rise of Anti-Intellectualism

“Professor Dave” misstates the genuine religious position.  It is, for example, an “infallible teaching” of the Catholic Church that (and we quote), “absolutely speaking, human reason by its own natural force and light can arrive at a true and certain knowledge of the one personal God, Who by His providence watches over and governs the world, and also of the natural law, which the Creator has written in our hearts” (Humani Generis, § 2).