The Just Third Way

 After a brief hiatus, we are returning to our series on “Why Economists Reject Binary Economics.”   Unfortunately, the reasons the so-calle...

  Today, we present “Part 1” of Professor Dave’s talk on Late Modern Philosophy.   As Professor Dave says, “Modern philosophy began to appro...

 Much of this week’s news items wouldn’t be news items if the Economic Democracy Act : had been adopted.   Keep that in mind as you read:

 Today we have a guest blog from Mr. G.C. Stevenson, a regular reader who was the “prime mover” behind the republication of Fulton Sheen’s “...

  Today, we present “Part 2” of Professor Dave’s talk on Political Philosophy.   As Professor Dave says, “We just got an introduction to mod...

As has become usual, this week’s news items reflect the chaos of both Keynesian economics and contemporary politics.   Naturally, we think t...

 Louis O. Kelso is today best known as the inventor of the Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP).   Despite the near-total global hegemony of...

Today, we present “Part 1” of Professor Dave’s talk on Political Philosophy.   As Professor Dave says, “With an understanding of the most im...

 There seems to be a focus this week on how a combination of AI and Trump’s tariffs are taking jobs.   Naturally, the solution is to adopt t...

 Ordinary people’s reactions regarding the possibility of getting the Economic Democracy Act adopted soon — or at all, for that matter — of...

  As we saw last week, Ancient Rome had a problem with slaves convicted of crimes doing the work of honest municipal slaves, receiving pay a...

Today, we present “Part 2” of Professor Dave’s talk on Idealism.   As Professor Dave says, “We introduced the movement of idealism and discu...

 The global economic and political situation remains such that we could pretty much just run the News from the Network from the previous wee...

Back at the dawn of the 20 th century, Judge Peter Stengar Grosscup (one of Theodore Roosevelt’s “Trust Busters”) published a series of art...

  Today, we present “Part 1” of Professor Dave’s talk on Idealism.   This starts to get into the area of what Catholic social teaching evolv...

 Heavy sigh.   One of the problems with reporting on what is going on economically and how it affects the Just Third Way of Economic Persona...

  Once upon a time, in the glory days of the Roman Empire, Pliny the Younger had a problem.   It seems certain slaves of the lesser sort — t...

Today, we present “Part 2” of Professor Dave’s talk on Empiricism.   As Prof. D. says, “We’ve learned about the early figures in the empiric...

 Quite a bit about how AI is replacing human labor from the production process and none of the so-called experts or the powers-that-be appea...

  AI — Artificial Intelligence — has been in the news a lot recently.   Possibly this is because the powers-that-be and so-called world lead...

Today, for our 400 th podcast, we return to Professor Dave who “knows a lot of stuff.”   We don’t always agree with him, but at least we ca...

 It appears that the somewhat delayed effect of the Terrible Trump Tariffs will soon be kicking in, and “the average American” — despite all...

The four previous postings on this subject — why so-called mainstream economists reject Binary Economics — we have looked at 1) Lack of Empi...

Many people are intrigued by the first U.S.-born pope’s choice of regnal name and his declaration that he would take Pope Leo XIII’s 1891 en...

 It continues to be difficult to report on news items relating to the Just Third Way when the media are filled with the economic chaos being...