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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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Recent Articles
Technology and Distributism
Distributists are often accused of being inimical to technology. This, of course, is not so; distributists are merely cautious about it, rather than accepting every new gadget and invention that pops out of the corruptible mind of man.
Down with the Plutocracy!
It’s ever-increasingly clear that the Republicans and the Democrats are really just two opposing factions within a single plutocratic party. Their official platforms vary considerably, of course, and their favorite dead horses to beat are different dead horses. But in the long run, they both hold the same basic principles.
Our Disastrous Debt Economy
Who’s responsible for this situation? Facially, of course, it’s citizens and businesses who engaged in very risky credit behavior. Namely, it’s almost everybody in the country. But most of these people were relying on advice and on policies from higher up, coming from everywhere from the banks to the Fed itself.
Big Business Squashes Your Rights
It is common thinking among conservatives that the government getting too big is the only problem, and once that is dealt with our freedom will be secure. However, this view forgets that big business can be just as bureaucratic and invasive as big government.
Benedict on Business: What’s Love Got to Do With It?
The most definitive reply to someone who says “it can’t work” is to show that it is working, and has been doing so for a long time.
Consumer Confidence or Consumer Recklessness?
Our spending on consumption is well over twice what we’re spending on improving and sustaining our production; it vastly outweighs government spending and investment in production, and even partially offsets (though only unsustainably) our dismal import-export ratio.
The Politics of Ingratitude
Here is the great secret of my generation: What our parents gave us as a gift we have received as an entitlement. No one is grateful for an entitlement. Indeed, everyone is resentful that it is not larger. Worse, we are resentful of everybody else’s entitlements because they compete with our own.
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.
The Enemies of Property
I am well aware that the word “property” has been defiled in our time by the corruption of the greedy capitalists. One would think, to hear people talk, that the Rothchilds and the Rockefellers were on the side of property. But obviously they are the enemies of property.
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