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• Intelligible Design and Darwin’s Black Box

  In John Médaille, Science / By John Médaille / 20 September 2012 / 53 comments

  

  For the medieval scientist, knowledge of the world was knowledge of the world’s God. But after the “Enlightenment” (so-called), knowledge of the natural world made god unnecessary.

   

• An Introduction to the Social Theories of the Middle Ages

  In Books, History, John Médaille / By John Médaille / 27 May 2012 / 8 comments

  

  What marks the modern age is a fracturing of human life from human thought. We have divorced science from art, commercial life from family life, the moral realm from the physical, the political realm from the economic, and so on. The Middle Ages provides a counterpoint to our current situation.

   

• Friends and Strangers: A Meditation on Money

  In Economics, John Médaille / By John Médaille / 3 January 2012 / 18 comments

  

  Before you signed the mortgage to buy your home, or the note to buy your car, or the credit slip to buy a hamburger at McDonald’s, the money to buy the home, the car, or the burger did not exist; it comes into existence in the very act of borrowing it.

   

• There Is No Such Thing as a Bank Loan

  In Economics, John Médaille / By John Médaille / 2 November 2011 / 22 comments

  

  It would not be true to say that the banksters learned nothing; rather they learned what they already knew: that they could take insane risks, pocketing the gains and socializing the losses. The only “change” is that things are more like they were than they ever were before.