The Just Third Way

A number of events have happened this week that both highlight the need for something like “Justice University” and — at the same t...

One of the things that strikes readers of Saint Thomas Aquinas: The “Dumb Ox” is Chesterton’s mildness toward, even respect for, t...

One of the things that strikes the reader of what is perhaps G.K. Chesterton’s greatest book, Saint Thomas Aquinas: The “Dumb Ox”...

In St. Thomas Aquinas: The “Dumb Ox” , G.K. Chesterton made a point of calling himself stupid — a fool or a moron, in fact.   If it...

Five years ago today we ran one of our most popular blog postings ever: “ Halloween Horror Special XIII: Mean Green Mother from Out...

Accurate information about the Just Third Way is beginning to filter past the “gatekeepers” in academia and politics.   It seems th...

Even before he converted to Catholicism in 1922, G.K. Chesterton exhibited great concern for the modern abandonment of reason, and ...

To understand what G.K. Chesterton did in 1933, we have to go back a decade to understand what he did in 1923.   That was the year,...

Yesterday we noted that, under pressure from the presumably unavoidable slavery of past savings, distributism regressed from the id...

When is socialism not socialism?   When you have defined it as Something Else? No.   Socialism that is truly socialism remains soci...

September 30 is the end of the fiscal year for CESJ, and consequently most of what is happening is routine tasks t...

One of the most offensive and anti-human assertions put forward by John Maynard Keynes is the claim that the State has the power to...

Yesterday we opened with our take on the 1928 debate between G.K. Chesterton and G.B. Shaw on whether there was any fundamental agr...

In 1928, G.K. Chesterton had a debate with his friend, the noted Fabian socialist George Bernard Shaw.   Hilaire B...

Perhaps this posting should have been titled “The Tragedy of G.K. Chesterton,” but in our opinion he’d prefer the paradox.   After ...

The events this week have been few but potentially momentous.   It’s always difficult to report on meetings in whi...

Through the kind offices of Father Edward Krause, C.S.C., Ph.D., we met recently with the Associate Director of the Center for Ethi...

For most people interested in history, the Battle of Lepanto, October 7, 1571, is an interesting footnote.   They’...

Yesterday, consistent with our claim that socialism is one thing under many names, we explained how, by constantly changing definit...

As we said in last week’s posting on capitalism, where capitalism is many things under one name, socialism is one thing under many ...