The Just Third Way

There has been a good deal of discussion and analysis done on Magnifica Humanitas , Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical.   This is, of course, o...

This coming Friday, June 12, 2026, is the 250 th anniversary of the adoption of the Virginia Declaration of Rights, the first article of wh...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE   MAKING SENSE OF SOCIAL JUSTICE A Guide to Understanding Magnifica Humanitas is Now Available in Spanish ...

PARA PUBLICACIÓN INMEDIATA DAR SENTIDO A LA JUSTICIA SOCIAL Una guía para comprender Magnifica Humanitas ya está disponible en espa...

Word on the street is Pope Leo XIV is issuing a new “encyclical” on May 15, 2026.   The document, provisionally titled Magnifica Humanitas ...

    In last week’s posting on this subject, we briefly answered four questions posed by a professor about distributism and the Just T...

  Recently a genuine college professor got in touch with us and asked us if we would mind answering a few questions about the Just Third Way...

As we have often noted on this blog, we like it when Faithful Readers send in comments or questions we can answer and use as the raw materia...

 After spending most of the first part of this week bemoaning the effect of AI on readin’ and ritin’ after viewing several videos on the sub...

Ask anybody.   Go ahead.   We dare you.   For best results, carry a microphone and have somebody pointing a videocam at you and whoever (or ...

 Last week we took a look at a book with a hook in a nook with a cook.   That in itself is not unusual, even without a visit from Dr. Suess....

 Recently, a Faithful Reader sent us a copy of “Disappeared to a Foreign Prison” by Sarah Stillman, from the November 24, 2025, issue of The...

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...

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...

  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...

  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...

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

In today’s posting, we’re taking a look at some basic principles of the Just Third Way of Economic Personalism.   As we understand it, the J...

Recently we got an enquiry regarding a misunderstanding about our use of the term “Economic Personalism” and some potential confusion with t...

Reportedly, vice presidential candidate Tim Walz “ created ‘the most progressive tax system in the country’ for Minnesota .”   Pundits belie...