Sanity for Helen…and the Rest of Us

Economics is a tool, as any science is a tool. But we have begun to think that man serves his tools, and the tools do not serve man. We also think the tools should tell us everything, because we have deified them.

Neo-Feudalism and the Invisible Fist

The corporation is converted from a protector of our industrial base into its destroyer, so that today we are a nation that makes far less than we consume, and will soon be forced to adjust our consumption to our means.

Small is Still Beautiful

What have been the results of modem economic process? A few of them that Pearce cites are dying rural cultures, gigantic polluted cities (especially in poor countries), soil that has been depleted of its minerals and nutrients by constant use of chemical fertilizers, food robbed of its nutritive value—but economists, take note, it is very cheap!

An Interview with Christopher Ferrara

Jeremiah Bannister interviews author and attorney Christopher A. Ferrara about his new book, “The Church and the Libertarian”.

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Naïve Experts: Economists and the Real World

Labor, of course, is human beings, and since most people must live from their labor, they cannot substitute some other “commodity”; this is a market which is driven by necessity rather than choice.

The Church and the Libertarian

This is a book by a Catholic, addressed to Catholics, over issues which concern Catholic doctrine. Therefore, it should be read by as many non-Catholics as possible. This is not only because the issues are of universal significance, but also because this book is a superb example of how reasoning that includes the moral and supernatural orders enlightens and completes the natural order.

The Flying Inn by G.K. Chesterton

Perhaps prophetical more so than prosaic (and not at all in the sense Chesterton intended it) The Flying Inn is one of those books which should rank among the classics.

Slumdog Success Story

The hit movie Slumdog Millionaire will likely garner a large share of the Oscar awards tomorrow, honors which it no doubt deserves. Yet along with the honors, the movie is also garnering fierce protests in Dharavi, the “slum” in which it was partially filmed. What the residents object to is not the use of the term “slumdog” to describe them, so much as the use of the term “slum” to describe their neighborhood.