Turning Vices into Virtues
“it is heard that the public good is obtained when men look after their own interests.” So often it is heard that the public good is obtained when men look after their own interests. While there might...
View ArticleUnderstanding the Cross in a “Way of the Cross” Society
The following excerpt is taken from a speech titled “A Way of the Cross Society,” delivered at the American TFP’s 2014 National Conference on October 25th, in Spring Grove, Pennsylvania. And so we need...
View ArticleThe Robo-Bar: Automating Your Drinking Experience
“part of the public drinking experience has been the banter of the bartender” For centuries, part of the public drinking experience has been the banter of the bartender with the customers. Such...
View ArticleFour Reasons Why You Don’t Want the New Amazon HQ in Your Front Yard
When Amazon announced its search for a place to put its second headquarters, city and state officials started scrambling to offer the most generous terms possible. The promise of 50,000 jobs and an...
View ArticleThe Questionable Value of Modern Advertising
The Questionable Value of Modern Advertising Return to Order criticizes modern advertising for creating dissatisfaction and constantly inciting consumers with promises of bigger and better products....
View ArticleThe Individual vs Society
By Haven Bradford Gow. In his work Return to Order, Catholic scholar John Horvat II provides a critique of the atomistic individualism that ruptures the social bonds that make civilized social life...
View ArticleWhen Life Is Organized Like Machines
When Life Is Organized Like Machines We note that technology does not refer only to the machines and computers that make up our industry. It also refers to those identical methods, procedures, and...
View ArticleThe Educational Importance of Manners
“No one will deny that manners have declined.” At first glance it might seem rather forced to make a connection between education and manners. In our secular society, manners like morals seem to be...
View ArticleWhy Is Socialism Still Popular?
Why Is Socialism Still Popular? If ever there was a set of ideas that has been tried and found lacking, it is socialism. It has been tried on every continent. It has been tried in weak nations and...
View ArticleThe Suicide of the West: A Tale of Two Miracles
The Suicide of the West: A Tale of Two Miracles “There is no God in this book.” Thus reads the provocative first sentence of Jonah Goldberg’s latest release, The Suicide of the West: How the Rebirth of...
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