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Dear Friends of The Distributist Review and The ChesterBelloc Mandate,On the 4th of July, we are proud to present our brand new web site, The Distributist Review. The Distributist Review will provide analysis of our contemporary social and economic world, with the addition of vintage essays from G.K. Chesterton, Hilaire Belloc, and the early Distributist League. The site’s primary focus is

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Friends,If you plan to attend this year's Chesterton conference, please be aware that changes have been made to the schedule. Joseph Pearce will now speak on Friday.http://chesterton.org/2010conference.htm

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Dear Friends,For some time the editors of The Distributist Review have been on a mission to move beyond the shores of Blogger. While this has been our happy home for almost six years, our principle objective to find a new design that could marry The Chesterbelloc Mandate and The Distributist Review is now mission accomplished. With this new site our readers will receive the best vintage material

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Remember friends, if you cannot make the entire conference you can always purchase tickets for just one day. This is a great opportunity to listen to some great Chestertonians and talk shop. Networking with one another is an excellent way to organize and build future relationships. I want to personally meet every single one of you. So if you cannot make the entire event, consider coming out

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To read the article go to The Distributist Review.

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An urgent appeal from Dale Ahlquist, President of American Chesterton Society: Chestertonians !! In all of the American Chesterton Society’s good work, one of the most exciting things we have ever gotten involved in is helping to start a new high school. Chesterton Academy is just completing its second year of operations in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. We featured a cover story about it in

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The Distributist Review

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Dear Friends, For all who wish to read a copy of Mr. Storck's paper from the "Catholicism and Economics" conference, please go to The Distributist Review.

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For the article, please go to The Distributist Review.

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Dear friends of The Society for Distributism, Tomorrow we embark on a new adventure. As most of you are aware, Thomas Storck will represent The Society for Distributism at the Nassau Community College Center for Catholic Studies’ “Catholicism and Economics” conference/debate, in Garden City, New York. John Médaille, Ryan Grant, Jeremiah Bannister, Bill Powell, and myself will be present at the

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by Br. Philip Anderson, Prior [Editor's Note: Please consider making a donation to Clear Creek Monastery. The Rule of St. Benedict is and should be an example to distributists across the world. The Benedictine monks at Clear Creek tirelessly work to "...build something beautiful for God" centering their lives in Ora et Labora (Prayer and Work).] February 2009 Dear Friend, As we enter the

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Dear readers of The Distributist Review, Paul Likoudis, News Editor for The Wanderer -the oldest Catholic newspaper in the United States- recently conducted an interview with yours truly regarding "Bellocian Economics," and has kindly granted us permission to reprint it here. Our thanks go to Mr. Likoudis for the opportunity. We would also like to applaud The Wanderer for their recent defense of

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John: "It is long been rumored that Pope Benedict XVI has been preparing a new social encyclical which will address the current crises. Robert Moynihan writes of it here. The Pope may have given some hints about its contents during a meeting with the clergy of Rome on February 27."Our readers may interested to read Mr. Moynihan's piece, which makes mention of a certain well known ChesterBellocian

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by S. SagarA correspondent asks me when I am going to enlarge on the sentence with which I closed a recent article, a sentence expressing doubt about the remedy of the Credit Reformers.As a matter of fact, I had not meant to enlarge upon it. I regard the subject much, as I regard the game of chess, that is, I find it fascinating, but I have always been too busy (or too lazy) to give it that close

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G.K. Chesterton's ManAlive

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by Hilaire BellocIt must, however, finally be asked of the man who criticizes the Socialist proposal: “If you will not accept his positive and clear remedy for the intolerable conditions of modern industrial society, what alternative have you?”It is as though a man suffering from a bad limb were to hesitate to have it amputated, and the surgeon were to say to him; “If you will not let me cut it

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Dear friends,Jeremiah Bannister's radio interview with Thomas Storck is now available (click here). Please remember to go to the sidebar on the right to access the three-segment broadcast.In addition, we wish to introduce a second pamphlet for the benefit of our readers and activists. Originally written at the start of the new millennium, Thomas Storck reintroduced us to the social and political

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by Richard AlemanG.K. Chesterton once said trade, which by its very nature is a secondary thing, has become a primary thing.Case in point, the portrait of an unnatural matrimony between government and the powerful elites of business and finance. What happens when big government and big business collaborate? For one, justice becomes –to put it bluntly– empty. Judges order billionaires to “go to

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Dear friends and readers of The ChesterBelloc Mandate,For our readers in the Ohio area, Sebastian's Church, Akron, will be hosting a performance of "Old Thunder: An Afternoon with Hilaire Belloc", a one-man show featuring Kevin O'Brien, founder of Theater of the Word, on Sunday, March 15th at 1 p.m. in Zwisler Hall. The program is free and open to the public; a free-will offering will be taken.

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by A.J. PentyPassing on now to consider the problem of ways and means of re-introducing the Guild System, the first fact we must grasp is that the Guilds cannot be reestablished by further evolution upon the lines along which society is now travelling, but by the development of those forces which run counter to what may be considered the normal line of social evolution.Of these, the first force

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For the article go to The Distributist Review

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by Hilaire BellocIn the first place, no man in a Socialistic State would be what we now call free. This is a proposition very hotly denied by many Socialists, because they believe it to be an unfair and a misleading one; but no clear thinker can deny it, and by far the best arguments used in this connection by the clearest thinkers upon the Socialistic side are to the effect that, though the

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by Hilaire BellocSocialism is a political theory according to which people would be happier and better if the means of production—that is, the land of a country and its buildings, ships, machines, rails, etc.—belonged to the Government instead of belonging, as they now mainly do, to private citizens and private corporations.That is the only exclusive meaning of Socialism. All the other wobbly

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Dear friends,While perhaps an informal post, I wish to first apologise for my recent absence, but as can be expected, I am preparing for the upcoming "Catholicism and Economics" conference. Shortly, the fruit of my work, which includes an "FAQ/Recommended Reading List," the nonprofit brochure, as well as a couple of pieces of distributist literature, will be available to readers of The

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by Jeremiah C. HarringtonThe thesis defended in this book is that the free development of Catholicism is the real cure for our social and industrial ills. We do think that the abuses of Capitalism are as dangerous as Socialism or Communism. The Church does not condemn Capitalism any more than she never condemned slavery, yet the influence of Catholicism was the diminution and ultimately the

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