The Just Third Way

While world leaders seem to flail about with no idea what to do about world problems — or, worse, know exactly what ...

Back in the eighteenth century the Good Doctor, Samuel Johnson, chastised his Boswell . . . who happened to be James Boswell . . ...

Are encyclicals getting too long?   And is anybody reading (or understanding) them?   Judging from all the acrimony ...

A few days ago someone commented concerning Gregory XVI’s Singulari Nos , “On the Errors of Lamennais,” at a little...

Today we present our “Man Bites Dog” feature: what happened when Pope Gregory XVI in the encyclical Mirari Vos corrected the hero ...

This past week we’ve probably been finding out more about the history of social justice and the way the term was coo...

Yesterday we looked at the errors made by the Abbé Hugues Félicité Robert de Lamennais and why they were wrong.   This is importa...

Joseph-Marie comte de Maistre Yesterday we looked at the Abbé Hugues Félicité Robert de Lamennais’s rather one-sided notion o...

Yesterday we looked at the Catholic Church’s condemnation of “freedom of conscience” . . . which sounds pretty shocking until you...

While researching the origins of Rerum Novarum (1891), probably Pope Leo XIII’s best-known encyclical, we came across something ...

As summer gets underway next week, people in the Just Third Way are taking the opportunity to get various projects moving again. ...

Yesterday we looked at a few of the papal statements underscoring the importance of widespread private property in capital.   As ...

Yesterday we looked at the situation of the non-owning worker, and briefly touched on the matter of the fair wage, which many peo...

Yesterday we looked at the ancient Roman custom of the peculium and how knowing about it helps us understand what the heck (or h...

Last week we started looking at the “Parable of the Talents,” and found what seemed to be one or two anomalies in it.   Not in th...

The Just Third Way continues to move forward.   There have been a number of events this week suggesting that the ide...

At first glance, Jesus’s “Parable of the Talents” in Matthew 25:14-30 seems straightforward — and it is.   The message is obvious...

Yesterday’s Wall Street Journal carried an interesting piece about President Emmanuel Macron of France, comparing him — at least...

Recently someone sent us the link to an article by Steven Kates published in 2010 on “The Failure of Keynesian Economics.”   As everyone who...

Last week we had a short series on “What is Socialism?”   One of the people who commented on it when it was posted in a “distributist” forum...