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.