The Just Third Way

A Blog of the Global Justice Movement

Wednesday, November 5, 2025

The Meaning and Purpose of Life, II: Justice as Love

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In Part I of this article, we looked at the question, “Why do I exist?” as answered by the legendary Fulton Sheen.   Admittedly, Sheen’s ans...
Monday, November 3, 2025

JTW Podcast: Analytic Philosophy Part I: Dewey, Russell, and Whitehead

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Today, we present the first part of Professor Dave’s talk on analytic philosophy.   This breaks the sequence a bit, but we think there must ...
Friday, October 31, 2025

News from the Network, Vol. 18, No. 44

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 Boo.   Happy Halloween, whatever a “happy” Halloween consists of.   You want something really scary, though, take a look at today’s economy...
Wednesday, October 29, 2025

The Meaning and Purpose of Life, I: The Burning Question

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If we believe media hype and the typical behavior of other people, the answer to the question as to the meaning and purpose of life is to be...
Monday, October 27, 2025

JTW Podcast: Continental Philosophy Part I: Husserl, Bergson, Heidegger, and Jaspers

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Today, we present the first part of Professor Dave’s talk on continental philosophy.   As Professor Dave says, “With modern philosophy cover...
Friday, October 24, 2025

News from the Network, Vol. 18, No. 43

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 Rising national debt, job loss, AI bubble . . . is there any good news this week?   Yes — the good news is that there is a solution: the Ec...
Wednesday, October 22, 2025

The Blind Leading the Blinder

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We may have mentioned one or two dozen (or hundred) times how much we like it when people ask us questions we can answer and then use as a p...
Monday, October 20, 2025

JTW Podcast: Logic in Late Modern Philosophy

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Today, we present Professor Dave’s talk on logic in late modern philosophy.   As Professor Dave says, “How did logic continue to develop as ...
Friday, October 17, 2025

News from the Network, Vol. 18, No. 42

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 Believe it or not, there is an alternative to debt and taxes . . . it’s debt or taxes, and for a government, it’s better to go with taxes a...
Wednesday, October 15, 2025

The Economic Answer to AI, II: The Spread of the Problem

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In the previous posting on this subject, we noted — consistent with the Past Savings and the Sole Ownership assumptions combined with the La...
Monday, October 13, 2025

JTW Podcast: Logic in Early Modern Philosophy

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Today, we present Professor Dave’s talk on (obviously) logic in early modern philosophy.   As Professor Dave says, “With modern philosophy s...
Friday, October 10, 2025

News from the Network, Vol. 18, No. 41

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Again, 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 re...
Wednesday, October 8, 2025

The Economic Answer to AI, I: The Problem

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 Recently we re-read New America (1983) by the late Poul Anderson, a compendium of four related science fiction novellas tied together into...
Monday, October 6, 2025

JTW Podcast: Late Modern Philosophy Part 2: The Roots of Analytic Philosophy

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  Today, we present “Part 2” of Professor Dave’s talk on Late Modern Philosophy, this one on “Analytic Philosophy.”   He doesn’t mention Com...
Friday, October 3, 2025

News from the Network, Vol. 18, No. 40

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 As usual, 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 yo...
Wednesday, October 1, 2025

Why Economists Reject Binary Economics, VI: “Limited Academic Influence and Institutional Support”

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 After a brief hiatus, we are returning to our series on “Why Economists Reject Binary Economics.”   Unfortunately, the reasons the so-calle...
Monday, September 29, 2025

JTW Podcast: Late Modern Philosophy Part 1: The Roots of Continental Philosophy

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  Today, we present “Part 1” of Professor Dave’s talk on Late Modern Philosophy.   As Professor Dave says, “Modern philosophy began to appro...
Friday, September 26, 2025

News from the Network, Vol. 18, No. 39

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 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:
Wednesday, September 24, 2025

The Trumpet Must Sound

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 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 “...
Monday, September 22, 2025

JTW Podcast: Political Philosophy Part 2: Wollstonecraft, Bentham, Mill, and Marx

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  Today, we present “Part 2” of Professor Dave’s talk on Political Philosophy.   As Professor Dave says, “We just got an introduction to mod...
Friday, September 19, 2025

News from the Network, Vol. 18, No. 38

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As has become usual, this week’s news items reflect the chaos of both Keynesian economics and contemporary politics.   Naturally, we think t...
Wednesday, September 17, 2025

What’s So Great About Louis Kelso?

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 Louis O. Kelso is today best known as the inventor of the Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP).   Despite the near-total global hegemony of...
Monday, September 15, 2025

JTW Podcast: Political Philosophy Part 1: Machiavelli, Rousseau, and Smith

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Today, we present “Part 1” of Professor Dave’s talk on Political Philosophy.   As Professor Dave says, “With an understanding of the most im...
Friday, September 12, 2025

News from the Network, Vol. 18, No. 37

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 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...
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