The Contradictions of Liberals and Conservatives
Most Americans who are in the slightest degree politically active or interested incline to one of the two chief political positions common in this country, what we call conservatism or liberalism.
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Understanding the Economic Justice of Marriage
Those who suggest that marriage is simply the emotional union of two adults, or that the government should not be in the marriage business at all, advocate for what we may call a “social free market,” that is, an individualist theory that reduces government functions to facilitating “choice”.
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Movie Review: Money as Debt
Money as Debt, along with parts II and III, and its follow-up The Essence of Money, present for us in an animated format the hidden smoke and mirrors not just of our economic system itself, but all the way down to the level of a local bank.
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Domesticity
How to Prepare for Catastrophe
Many people today are worried, justifiably, about major devastating events that could seriously alter our way of life. Yet, intertwined with those legitimate fears are vehicles that may or may not be legitimate, which do little more than stoke fear or evoke a collective sense of worry, unsubstantiated by the facts.
Fr. Vincent McNabb
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Chesterton could not be contemporary of Marx, the Great War, the Russian Experiment, without seeing the social question to be, what Leo XIII stated it to be, “the Pressing Question of the hour.” He was one of the few who accepted the Pope’s invitation “to strive to secure the good of the people, and to bring to the struggle the full energy of his mind.”
Guilds
Practical Distributism: Innovation
Will the elimination of large monopolies really stifle innovation and technological development?
Sports
Our Local Team
The Green Bay Packers are a local, community team in the fullest, truest sense of the word. And despite lacking a profit motive, they’ve been among the most successful teams in professional American football.
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The Contradictions of Liberals and Conservatives May 13, 2012 18:05
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Understanding the Economic Justice of Marriage May 13, 2012 18:05
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Movie Review: Money as Debt May 8, 2012 11:05
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The Outline of Sanity May 7, 2012 15:05
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Msgr. Luigi Ligutti and Distributism April 29, 2012 19:04
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The Contradictions of Liberals and Conservatives
Most Americans who are in the slightest degree politically active or interested incline to one of the two chief political positions common in this country, what we call conservatism or liberalism.
Understanding the Economic Justice of Marriage
Those who suggest that marriage is simply the emotional union of two adults, or that the government should not be in the marriage business at all, advocate for what we may call a “social free market,” that is, an individualist theory that reduces government functions to facilitating “choice”.
Movie Review: Money as Debt
Money as Debt, along with parts II and III, and its follow-up The Essence of Money, present for us in an animated format the hidden smoke and mirrors not just of our economic system itself, but all the way down to the level of a local bank.
The Outline of Sanity
Joseph Grabowski hosts a new episode of The Outline of Sanity podcast right here on The Distributist Review.
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Msgr. Luigi Ligutti and Distributism
As the Distributists and NCRLC argued, restoring economic functions to the family eliminated the concentration and collectivism by corporations and states unconcerned with the quality and distribution of our food or the preservation of mass ownership.
Practical Distributism: Innovation
Will the elimination of large monopolies really stifle innovation and technological development?
Subsidiarity and Libertarian “Small Government”
There may be those who are confused and think that the Catholic doctrine of subsidiarity is the same as libertarian or other “small government” doctrines common in the United States. James Baresel highlights some of the differences between the two.
Dr. Franciszek Stefczyk: Father of Polish Credit Unions
Dr. Franciszek Stefczyk led a humble and quiet life never amassing a fortune or allowing power to interfere with his life as Catholic, husband, father, and social pioneer.
The Chief Question in Economics
Distributists do indeed desire a revolution, but a revolution in men’s minds, in our way of thinking, so that eventually our way of acting and conducting our economic affairs can be changed.
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