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…
