Archive for Category: "Politics"
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.
Navigating the Republican Milieu Part II
Looking over various debates, I can’t help but come to the conclusion that the candidates being offered to us do not offer any real solutions. In this installment: presidential hopefuls Ron Paul and Newt Gingrich.
Navigating the Republican Milieu, Part I
One cannot accomplish one’s goals by ignoring pressing issues that underpin or even cause the main fault at issue. To consistently “support the lesser of two evils” is to encourage the status quo.
State Capitalism
The era of Reaganomics left central governments in huge debts and with much more centralized power over economic and political freedom. Hayek claimed Keynesian policy as a road to serfdom, but the irony is that under the pretext of carrying out Hayek’s ideas we have boarded the plane to serfdom.
A Message for the Home
Just as our grandfathers once faced hard choices, let us be remembered as the men and women who resurrected the economy of “many small places and many local heroes.”
An Advent Reflection
Although Tito broke with the USSR and although his score of, for example, priests put to death and students imprisoned is not as high as those of other Communist dictators, this does not make him a leader to admire.
The Zuccotti Purge
The point is not that the cops are all bad guys while the occupiers are good, or even that Occupation is itself the answer. Rather, the question is how did it get to the point that many people’s only experience of close-knit community is a protest encampment?
Victims of Mammon
Liberalism produces its own mirror images. The miracle is that there are so many who have escaped the liberal dialectic. Let us reject the idol of liberalism by refusing to sacrifice the poor and oppressed on its altar, the altar of Mammon.
Remember, Remember the Fifth of November
Anonymous’ involvement with the protests, in a sense, muddies the waters: it’s a genuinely creepy group, committed to genuine anarchy; one of its slogans is “We are Legion,” a reference to what the demons said when Christ was casting them out.