Thomas Storck – Practical Distributism

Something for Nothing? A review by Thomas Storck

4 September, 2025

Originally published in The Chesterton Review, spring/summer 2025. David Hunt, Something for Nothing? An Explanation and Defence of the Scholastic Position on Usury. Lincoln, Nebraska: Os Justi Press, 2024. 133 pages, including bibliography. $26.95 cloth. $17.95 paper. $14.95 e-book by Thomas Storck For about two hundred years the question of usury has slept a deep … More Something for Nothing? A review by Thomas Storck

Tariffs or Free Trade: A Distributist Perspective

13 May, 2025

by Thomas Storck As I write these lines in April 2025 the United States, and the rest of the world as well, is agitated by President Donald Trump’s broadscale imposition of tariffs. One is not sure whether those tariffs are primarily designed to raise revenue, bully other countries into conforming with Trump’s political goals, protect … More Tariffs or Free Trade: A Distributist Perspective

The Political Economy of Distributism: Property, Liberty and the Common Good

30 January, 2025

A Review by Thomas Storck First published in The Chesterton Review, Volume 50, Issue 3/4, Fall/Winter 2024 Alexander Salter’s recent book on distributism and its relationship with political economy is a welcome sign of interest on the part of academic economists in distributism. Salter is generally sympathetic to what he calls the socio-economic goals of … More The Political Economy of Distributism: Property, Liberty and the Common Good