John C. Médaille
John Médaille is a businessman in Irving, Texas, and also an Instructor in Theology at the University of Dallas, where he teaches a unique course on the Social Encyclicals for Business Students. He is the father of five, grandfather of two, and husband of one. He is the author of The Vocation of Business: Social Justice in the Marketplace and is finishing up another book, Equity and Equilibrium: The Political Economy of Distributism. John also blogs at The Distributist Review.
Articles by John C. Médaille
Scientia and Sapentia, or, What the Schoolmen Knew
Modern science has given us modern miracles, like iPhones and atom bombs and Chrysler cars, but has not given us the wisdom to use them.
The Cost of Everything
Without proper accounting, there can be neither honest pricing nor clean water.
Neo-Feudalism and the Invisible Fist
So how did we get to a situation where the “freedom of markets” has come to mean “servility” and corporate control?
Wendell Berry and the Great Economy
Economics has become a totalizing system claiming the power to explain all things. It is as much a religious system—by another name—as is Berry's Great Economy.
Naive Experts: Economists and the Real World
If your doctor had this same track record of diagnosing and treating disease, you’d be dead by now.
The Armani Exchange
Due to the vagaries of the weather and the incompetence and indifference of Delta Airlines, I found myself homeless in New York City for 24 hours. Although the airline caused…
On Not Asking the Right Questions
In 1954, the Bell system (at the time, THE phone company) decided that a technical background was not sufficient, and sought to give its rising young executives an intensive course…
Lethal Loyalties: Dulce et Decorum Est
What if the nation-state was not the cure but the cause of the wars that we term “religious”?
Doing God’s Work at Goldman’s
Regulation, as we all know, was merely a demonic attempt by closet communists to deprive us of our liberties. And the markets, being made of of sophisticated buyers and sellers…
Hurray for Hellman’s
I am not quite sure what Hellman's gets out of this, but it's the best public service spot I've seen. Watch their "Buy Canadian" commercial. Hat tip to Grace Potts.
Revenge of the Weeds
"“It is the single largest threat to production agriculture that we have ever seen,” said Andrew Wargo III, the president of the Arkansas Association of Conservation Districts." Farmers Cope With…