The Real Season of Giving
Complaints about “materialism” at Christmas have never really bothered me. For those who believe in the Christian doctrine of the Incarnation, there is a real lesson about…
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…
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,”…
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…