John Médaille is the author of Toward a Truly Free Market: A Distributist Perspective and The Vocation of Business: Social Justice in the Marketplace. He is also the editor of Economia Libertăţii: Renaşterea României Profunde (in Romanian.) Retired from a long career in business, he is now an Instructor in Theology at the University of Dallas and a columnist at The Remnant Newspaper.
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Devon, PA.… Outside of a few magazines and other fora on the conservative and collectivist fringe, one seldom heres the opinion that the banking crisis of 2008 was brought about chiefly, not to say exclusively, by the kinds of
See Rod Dreher’s interview of Congressman Jeff Fortenberry (R-NE), one of the few Congressmen who would feel right at home on the porch. Here’s a snippet, but read it all.
That’s why I think an entrepreneurial model rooted in localism,…
FPR readers will be interested in two new essays in ANAMNESIS. The first, by Professor Jay Langdale, is a fascinating examination of Richard Weaver’s analysis of pathologies related to modern war: “’One more chance for the conservative solution’: Richard Weaver’s…
Published recently in The American Conservative. The book contains essays by such writers as Allan Carlson, Patrick Deneen, Jason Peters, Caleb Stegall, Rod Dreher, and D. G. Hart. Readers of FPR will find much to appreciate. Of course, this might…
Many FPR readers will enjoy “Derrida’s Hope and Despair for Globalization” in ANAMNESIS. Derrida is commonly interpreted as an enthusiast of globalization, but here Lee Trepanier elucidates this postmodernist’s many qualifications and warnings about cosmopolitanism.…
Stephen Marche has written an interesting piece in the May Atlantic on how facebook is making… us lonely. There is a good deal to comment on here, and I’m not particularly inclined to take yet another shot at Facebook, for while
On Sunday, Wendell Berry spoke at The National Cathedral. You can see that event here.
On Monday, he delivered the Jefferson Lecture for the National Endowment for the Humanities. The title: “It all Turns on Affection.” You can read that…
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