September 2009

This is, at last, the last chapter of my new book, Equity and Equilibrium: The Political Economy of Distributism. I post it here because so many questions have arisen on this site as to whether distributism is just another kind…

(Tim, Ben, and Kurt After Apple Picking; Photo by The Bar Jester)
Rock Island, IL…
Educational experts woke up one day to find themselves in what they were pleased to call a “post-agrarian” society. They weren’t quite clever enough to

Wichita, KS…
I just returned from my near-annual pilgrimage to the American Political Science Association’s annual convention…this year held, ironically enough, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. I didn’t mind–it meant I’d be able to see some friends whom I haven’t talked

Ah, September.  The enervating heat of August is less, and school starts up again with all the hopefulness and energy of a new academic year.  I still feel the year begins in September.  For those of you with children, and…

For Maureen Drdak,
If she will accept it as part of our good conversation.
Devon, PA.… I shall be returning to the following subject frequently in the next few weeks: the need in our age for a restoration in the arts and