Justice Returns to the Sources
The Art of the Good. Valentin Tomberg, translated by Stephen Churchyard and James T. Wetmore. Angelico Press, 2021. Fiction will never really be able to compete…
Why We Play: Football Coaches and The Making of Boys Into Men
I sing of shoulder pads and the player. Even more so the football coach. This position is controversial these days. After all, football is, in George Will’s…
Nietzsche, Christ, or Civil War?
Power and Purity: The Unholy Marriage That Spawned America’s Social Justice Warriors. Mark T. Mitchell. Washington, D.C.: Regnery, 2020. What in hell is going on in…
Is Online University Education Possible?
Is there anything better for a teacher than watching one’s students do great things? I have never bought into the rhetoric that some teachers use about “learning…
The Economy of Funerals and Aunts
The office of the Vice President, FDR’s second veep John Nance “Cactus Jack” Garner allegedly said, is not worth a bucket of warm spit. What do vice…
Saint John Henry Newman, Sacramental Economist
One might not think of the newly-canonized Catholic Saint John Henry Newman as a patron of businessmen or investment bankers. After all, in “Christ the Quickening Spirit,”…
Leisure the Basis of Labor
Getting Work Right: Labor and Leisure in a Fragmented World, by Michael J. Naughton (200 pages, Emmaus Road Publishing, 2019) “Work-life balance” is a topic of…
May I Retire?
You can call it Gen-X cynicism, but when the Social Security administration used to send out those letters indicating the amount of our monthly earnings given how…
How Much Exactly Do I Have to Render Unto Caesar?
Income tax season is mostly over. For our family it just ended a week ago when the IRS sent us our refund after a long summer of…
Is Capitalism Intrinsically Woke?
Is capitalism itself intrinsically “woke”? In “The Distributist” column in the latest issue of the American Chesterton Society’s magazine, Gilbert (for which I am a contributing editor),…
Deciding When to Let the Market Decide
The break-up was surprisingly easy after nineteen years. We’d met at my brother’s wedding when I was currently unattached, and I was hooked immediately. Even now I…
Business Is a Many Splendored Thing
A couple years ago at a conference a marketing professor from a local college lamented to me that his students were simply not getting it. What, I…
The Problems Are Everlasting, the Bard Indispensable
The Soul of Statesmanship: Shakespeare on Nature, Virtue, and Political Wisdom. Khalil M. Habib and L. Joseph Hebert, Jr., eds. Lanham, MD: Lexington, 2018. In 2015…