The Market Made Me Do It (Part II)
Malibu, CA
Where does Catholic Social Thought come down on this question? Not surprisingly, Catholic thought often emphasizes solutions taken at the level of the...
Local Dynasties Only, Please
With former Florida Governor Jeb Bush's announcement on Tuesday that he's "actively explore the possibility of running for President of the United States"--a move...
Christmas Comes But Once a Year; Or, Books to Buy Next...
Philadelphia, PA
R. J. Snell
A slow thinker and slower writer—some might say the reverse—I’ve been chewing over the Christmas season for the past few days,...
A Presidential Proposal Worthy of the Porch
The blogger, pundit, screenwriter, and all-around mensch Noah Millman has come up with a brilliant idea--Bernie Sanders, U.S. Senator from Vermont, and Jim Webb,...
The Cardinal and the Capitalist
A cleric with the ear of Pope Francis recently sent Catholic defenders of free markets into a tizzy. At a press conference, Cardinal Oscar...
The Incredible Industrial Egg
The local library’s inventory reduction sale had progressed over several weeks from a buck a book and a dollar a DVD, to two dollars...
Puritans and The Pope: The Conflicted Christian History of American Ecological...
The responses from American Christians to Pope Francis’ encyclical Laudato Si’ have fallen into two predictable categories: Economic conservatives push back against Francis’ critique...
Does North American Cultural History Provide for a ‘Third Option’?
Having read several books on American history recently, including Colin Woodard’s book American Nations, itself based partly on David Hackett Fischer’s four-nation thesis in...
The Philanthropic Revolution
West Chester, PA
Jeremy’s wonderful new book illuminates a question at the heart of American philanthropy: Can we be charitable or loving toward our fellow...
Soil and Sacrament in Certain Kinds of Cities
This past weekend here in Wichita, I participated in the Eighth Day Institute's symposium, Soil and Sacrament: The World as Gift; Rod Dreher has...