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Monday, July 31, 2017

Episode VII: The Return of Common Sense

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In our last episode, we saw the distributist economist whom we have been calling “Tom Steele” (“Joe Wide” was, perhaps, sufficien...
Friday, July 28, 2017

News from the Network, Vol. 10, No. 30

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Ordinarily in the summer we experience something of a lull in activity.   That has not been the case this year.   A ...
Thursday, July 27, 2017

Episode VI: The Distributist Economist Strikes Back

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Despite the extended analysis of the errors inherent in the position of “Tom Steele,” the distributist economist, and his associa...
Wednesday, July 26, 2017

Distributist Economist Erratum Four & Conclusion

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So far in this discussion we have discovered that the distributist economist we’ve been calling “Tom Steele,” and hi...
Tuesday, July 25, 2017

Distributist Economist Erratum Three

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Yesterday we looked at the notions of a distributist economist whom we’ve been calling “Tom Steele” and his associat...
Monday, July 24, 2017

Distributist Economist Errata One & Two

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Last week we began examining the claims made by a prominent “distributist economist,” whom we have been calling “Tom...
Friday, July 21, 2017

News from the Network, Vol. 10, No. 29

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There seems to be an increasing polarization between “left” and “right,” or between “liberals” and “conservatives.” ...
Thursday, July 20, 2017

Correcting a Few Distributist Non-Facts

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Yesterday we looked at the complaint of a “distributist economist” whom we are calling “Tom Steele,” who claims that...
Wednesday, July 19, 2017

What’s the Problem, Distributist?

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A couple of weeks ago, we got a request for help from a member of the CESJ “Board of Counselors,” the advisory board of the inter...
Tuesday, July 18, 2017

“The Kingdom of God on Earth”?

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In The Quiet Man (1952)) — one of the greatest films of all time . . . except when Knute Rockne, All American (1940) is showing...
Monday, July 17, 2017

Orestes Brownson v. the Socialists

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Some people in the nineteenth century considered Orestes Brownson a bit of a crank.   He kept insisting that he wanted to know wh...
Friday, July 14, 2017

News from the Network, Vol. 10, No. 28

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Bastille Day!   We’d say “Happy Bastille Day!” but some people in France still think the French Revolution might not...
Thursday, July 13, 2017

Orestes Brownson, Socialist

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Before his conversion to Catholicism in 1844, Orestes A. Brownson (1803-1876) was a supporter of the socialist ideas...
Wednesday, July 12, 2017

Those Wacky Distributists and Friends

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Last Friday’s “News from the Network” excited a bit of a controversy among Catholic socialists — evidently not an oxymoron, despite ...
Tuesday, July 11, 2017

The Mad Monetary Muddle

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Yesterday we looked at what many people in power (both politically and financially) think of as “tax reform.”   We d...
Monday, July 10, 2017

Leading the Reform

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According to an article in last week’s Wall Street Journal , “America Once Led the World on Tax Reform” (07/06/17, A...
Friday, July 7, 2017

News from the Network, Vol. 10, No. 27

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Things are heating up around the world with respect to problems that could be solved by applying the principles of t...
Thursday, July 6, 2017

The Buyback Bamboozle

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According to Reuters news service, Nestlé, the chocolate maker, has announced a buyback of its outstanding shares of...
Wednesday, July 5, 2017

Democracy (and Wages) in America

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On Monday we looked at how the wage system operated in nineteenth century America prior to the Civil War.   We noted...
Tuesday, July 4, 2017

Happy Indepence Day!

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We're taking the day off from blogging, but just in case you haven't taken the day off from blog reading —
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