Justice in Economics is Not Socialism
Houston Catholic Worker, Vol. XXXI, No. 1, January-February 2011 In some people’s eyes, the words Worker and Catholic Worker give the Catholic Worker movement a bad name, even today. We were quite...
View ArticleThe Citizen’s Share
The Citizen’s Share: Putting Ownership Back into Democracy (Yale University Press, 2013) is a book title that will at once intrigue both the readers of The Distributist Review and distributists...
View ArticleThe Land
Nowhere in the world has industrialism achieved such a complete victory as in England. Here alone do we see a Society which exists entirely by and for a cosmopolitan market, and which has lost the last...
View ArticleOn the Decline of Rural Life: An Empty Schoolhouse
A little over a year ago, I was taking a hog to the butcher with my family, when we decided to stop and spend some time in prayer at a Catholic Church in a Southern Kansas small town. Afterwards, we...
View ArticleThe Peasantry of the Future
In answer to the question, “What do the poor want?” Simone Weil replied, “They want you to look at them.” I take Simone’s answer to mean we must look at this poor person or that poor village, and see...
View ArticleTowards a Green Thomism
Ah! If we could and would only listen to the lesson of the bees…how much better the world would be! Working like bees with order and peace we would learn to enjoy and have others enjoy the fruit of our...
View ArticleSocial Credit: An Introduction for Distributists
The Social Credit movement sought to bring the institutions that regulate social life into alignment with the natural laws that govern reality.
View ArticlePersonalism and the Economic Hit Man
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man and A Theory of Personalism address a malaise which is political, economic, and cultural—but ultimately religious.
View ArticleThe Citizen’s Share
In The Citizen’s Share, authors Joseph R. Blasi, Richard B. Freeman, and Douglas L. Kruse present a compelling case for “broad-based capitalism.”
View ArticleThe Land
If farming is looked on simply as a means of making money, the town will necessarily attract the worker to the detriment of the land.
View ArticleThe Forgotten Agrarian
It is not so much a matter of Adam Smith “defending” capitalism as it is of capitalists appropriating Smith, and often against his expressed wishes.
View ArticleDistributism from the East
Jason Streit proposes that Distributism is the economic philosophy that best fulfills Orthodoxy’s social teachings.
View ArticlePlanned Dependent Communities
Can we find ways to make communities less dependent on large employers and therefore less prone to collapse?
View ArticleCoffee and Choice
Big companies use their so-called “economies of scale,” a euphemism for brute force, to exclude genuine free choice from the market.
View ArticleThe Antidepressant Cardinal
Cardinal Verdier's ambitions "To fight unemployment, help your Archbishop build churches," bore an organization which is still active today.
View ArticleA Response to ‘The Greening of America, Catholic Style’
Hamlin and McGreevy are among the few to have noticed that there was an effort to bring Catholic intellectual tradition to bear upon Catholic rural life.
View ArticleWhat We Can Learn from the Guilds
No one is arguing for an exact return to the medieval guilds, any more than advocating that people should go around talking Chaucerian English.
View ArticleWhat the New York Times Did Not Say
People often seem to choose one of two sides of Dorothy. There is mysticism and activism in her life, and one cannot understand one without the other.
View ArticleRerum Novarum: One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Later
One hundred twenty-five years ago, Pope Leo XIII published Rerum Novarum, and it has been annoying people ever since.
View ArticleChesterton and the Pickpocket
Chesterton invoked the image of the pickpocket as a way of capturing the truth about present-day economic philosophies and practices.
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