Catholic Social Teaching – Practical Distributism

First International Course on Distributism

21 September, 2025

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Modern forms of Usury

11 September, 2025

When usury is discussed in our times, the typical assumption is that usury refers to the charging of interest on a loan of money. While this is the most common form of usury, this is not sufficient for a definition or an understanding of what usury truly is. I’ve presented a more detailed description of … More Modern forms of Usury

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

The Medieval Dispersion of Land

29 August, 2025

by Jeb Smith During the Middle Ages, far more people owned enough land to provide for themselves than in modern times. The society encouraged self-sufficiency. Hilaire Belloc wrote, “Every action of medieval society…was directed towards the establishment of a state in which men should be economically free through the possession of capital and of land.” … More The Medieval Dispersion of Land

The Distributist System, Catholicism, J.R.R. Tolkien, And His Distributist Hobbits

10 June, 2025

by Jeb Smith What Is Distributism Socialism and capitalism are not at war with each other—they are in cahoots with each other. They have formed that unholy alliance, the servile state—big government propped up by big business, and big business propped up by big government.-Dale Ahlquist, et al., The Hound of Distributism: A Solution for … More The Distributist System, Catholicism, J.R.R. Tolkien, And His Distributist Hobbits

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