by Thomas Storck It can be tedious to untangle a web of misrepresentations, and I’m afraid that what I am about to write here may be tedious to some. But if we are to uncover the continuing misrepresentations made by George Weigel on Catholic social teaching, this will be necessary even if it is somewhat … More George Weigel Shifts the Goalposts
by Patrick Toner Continued from Part 2 In an exchange with Witt and Richards sort of on this topic (Pearce 1, W&R 1, Pearce 2, W&R 2), Joseph Pearce accused the pair of conflating Belloc’s views with socialism—an accusation they warmly denied. …we clarify that Belloc was not a socialist. He did tend toward a … More Witt and Richards on Belloc: Part 3
by Patrick Toner Continued from Part 1 Witt and Richards accuse Belloc of committing serious economic errors—errors also committed by Marx (horribile dictu). The two central such errors are that both Marx and Belloc “failed to understand that free exchange benefits both parties,” and that “both held to what is called the labor theory of … More Witt and Richards on Belloc: Part 2
by Maciek Wąs One of the main – and the oldest – charges raised against distributism is that it is “impractical”; at least as far as I know the case. In my personal experience I have encountered this obstacle hundreds and hundreds of times. In most cases, when I try to convince somebody to become … More The Praise of Impracticality
by Thomas Storck In a recent column the publicist George Weigel has weighed in on some of the dubious shenanigans surrounding the apostolic exhortation Amoris Laetitia, the document that, to say nothing further, by its lack of clarity has confused so many about Catholic moral doctrine on marriage and the reception of the sacraments. Weigel … More George Weigel – Yet Again
by Patrick Toner Part One—The Distributist Paradox and State Power In The Hobbit Party (Ignatius, 2014), Jonathan Witt and Jay Richards cover some of what they take to be the political/social meanings in JRR Tolkien’s work. In Chapter 8—“The Fellowship of the Localists”—they talk a bit about Walmart and Joel Salatin and other such matters. … More Witt and Richards on Belloc: Part 1
Practical Distributism 