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Choosing Acreage Over Stocks
From an early age, my dad drilled into my head the lessons of compounding interest. It was quite simple: start…
Browsing: Agrarianism & Distributism
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Judge Judy and Distributism
Judge Judy fascinates me. It’s true, my tastes are a bit odd. I’ll admit to that. In fact, there are only…
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Too Few Capitalists or Too Much Capitalism?
There is a saying of G.K. Chesterton’s about economics that one finds frequently quoted, but often it seems with little…
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Subsidiarity Contrasted with Libertarian “Small Government”
Not long ago I encountered two people who were arguing in favor of a libertarian presidential candidate and making the…
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Msgr. Luigi Ligutti and Distributism
Thanks to David Bovee’s new book about the illustrious history of the National Catholic Rural Life Conference, The Church & the…
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How to Eat Like a Hobbit
If there is one area of life most people can change in order to return to the Shire, in a…
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How to Kill a Billion People — Part 3: “Precautionary” CO2 Policy and Food Crisis
Part I explained that almost half the world’s people are dependent for their food on industrially fixed nitrogen fertilizer, and that nitrogen…
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How to Kill a Billion People — Part 2: Indirect Effect of Greenhouse Gas Suppression
Part I demonstrated that the production and use of synthetic nitrogen is a substantial contributor of atmospheric greenhouse gases. It…
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How to Kill a Billion People — Part 1: The Food-Nitrogen-CO2 Nexus
In his 1986 book The Machinery of Nature, population control advocate Paul Ehrlich cited John Holdren, President Obama’s “science czar,”…
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Book Review: All the Devils Are Here
All the Devils Are Here, by Bethany McLean and Joe Nocera, is a fascinating look at the principle players who…