Earlier this year, Dale Ahlquist of the Society of G. K. Chesterton and Michael Warren Davis of The American Conservative presented a book titled Localism: Coming Home to Catholic Social Teaching. The Society of G. K. Chesterton has proposed using Localism as a new name for the Distributist movement. While I don’t agree with completely … More Localism
Earlier this year, a collection of essays was published to present Catholic perspectives on economics and finance; Money, Markets and Morals, edited by Thomas Storck. Through these essays, Mr. Storck presents a view that challenges conventional thoughts on how the economic life of society relates to the people in that society. While the conventional view … More Money, Markets and Morals
Economics is a field of study that has been researched and refined for centuries. Those seeking to learn about economics can readily find educational courses and other materials to learn all about it. You might think that, of all things, a basic introduction to the field is hardly necessary at this point. So why would … More Economics: An Alternative Introduction
Marcel De Corte was a 20th century Belgian philosopher whose thought had considerable kinship with distributism. He championed an organic civilization rooted in the concrete and recognized the totalizing tendencies in modern systems of thought, both socialist and capitalist. Recently Arouca Press in Waterloo, Ontario has published translations of two of De Corte’s books, Intelligence … More Marcel De Corte
Are you wondering what you can give this Christmas? I recommend Thomas Storck’s latest book, The Prosperity Gospel published by TAN Books. In it, he lays out the story of its subtitle: “How greed and bad philosophy distorted Christ’s teaching.” While this book mainly addresses this in the United States, it also applies to much … More The Prosperity Gospel
by Thomas Storck Although there are still quite a number of people clinging to the idea that the world is afflicted by a crisis of overpopulation, those who are aware of the statistics know better. In fact, a demographic collapse seems much more likely than a crisis of too many people. Keeping in mind the … More Buildings, Babies, and Changing Our Thinking
Practical Distributism 