America needs Ropke! My latest is in the excellent @RealClearCivics edited by @MESabo86 https://t.co/a7T0gIyiB2
— Richard Reinsch (@Reinsch84) July 2, 2021
Friday, July 02, 2021
Libertarians Can Dream!
Sunday, September 06, 2020
Wilhelm Röpke's Liberalism
Wilhelm Röpke's book "showed market liberals how to move beyond the world of supply and demand, and it helped conservatives understand why economic freedom should be central to their creed." @drsamuelgregg https://t.co/no2CIAUhwu via @PublicDiscourse
— Jay W. Richards (@DrJayRichards) September 3, 2020
Monday, September 02, 2013
Two Responses to Globalization
The Next Lesson From Holland: Why Local Money Matters by James Fallows
Thursday, July 18, 2013
Allan Carlson on Capitalism
"So, what is the alternative? Here, I lay out the argument of Wilhelm Roepke, advocate of the Humane Economy."
Related:
FEE - The Arena: Capitalism
Anamnesis: William Cavanaugh's "Killing For The Telephone Company," A Critique by Thomas Storck
I will try to respond to this shortly.
Extraenvironmentalist Episode #63: Next US Revolution (hi/low)
With a media ecosystem focused almost entirely the corporate system, burgeoning elements of a new economy revolution escape the mainstream eye. As our political systems stagnate in the face of ecological, energy and social crises, can an alternative to capitalism develop over the next few decades? Do ongoing experiments in money, society and energy have the ability to coalesce into a broader cultural shift?
In Extraenvironmentalist #63 we talk about the growing network of institutions and businesses that are forming the new economic revolution in the United States with historian and political economist Gar Alperovitz. Gar describes the ideas in his new book, What Then Must We Do: Straight Talk About the Next American Revolution. Then we hear from two of Italy’s leading economists Stefano and Vera Zamagni about the civil society model of a market economy.
Friday, July 06, 2012
Deserving of a Link Here
In the voluminous writings of Wilhelm Roepke, we find an effort to come to grips with this dilemma of unfreedom and to outline a way of getting what we want in a deeper and fuller sense. Rather than perpetuate the feeling of dependence and unfreedom by restricting choice to the usual alternatives in political economy (socialism or libertarianism), Roepke envisions a "Third Way" that would in a properly understood sense be truly "liberating." It is not the Roepke as Austrian economist that is here considered, or the Roepke as anti-communist, but rather the essential Roepke, Roepke as radical reformer, as idealist.
Saturday, May 19, 2012
Items of Interest, 19 May 2012
Defending Strauss by Samuel Goldman
The Spirit of American Constitutionalism: John Dickinson's Fabius Letters by Gregory S. Ahern
Champions of Modern Civilization
Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist by Paul Kingsnorth
The Truth of Beauty: Educating the Moral Imagination by Benjamin G. Lockerd, Jr.
The Third Way: Wilhelm Röpke’s Vision of Social Order by Ralph E. Ancil
Thomas Jefferson or Alexander Hamilton by Clyde Wilson
James Madison and the Dynamics of the Constitutional Convention by Lance Banning
Tom Piatak, Georgetown Needs An Exorcist
(Dr. Fleming, Re: Georgetown)
The Looming Reversal of Centralization by Gary North
Charting Obama’s Journey to a Shift on Afghanistan
Accurate history? Or spin and lies to make Obama look better after the fact?
New Right vs. Old Right by Greg Johnson
Nationalism: Phenomenology & Critique by Alain de Benoist
SSM:
Effects of Same-Sex Marriage
Sean Collins, Why I’m coming out... against gay marriage
A "New York progressive" gives four reasons for opposing "gay marriage"
Law professor says flawed view of sex threatens religious freedom by Michelle Bauman
Rod Dreher, A Burkean View on SSM
Social Issues Matter
Green is a color in the rainbow
Vatican Diary / That sin of Sodom which cries out to heaven
90 Percent of Corn Seeds Are Coated With Bayer's Bee-Decimating Pesticide
Economics:
The Inequality Speech That TED Won't Show You
BREAKING: You Know That TED Talk You Weren't Supposed To See? Here It Is.
Conceptualizing post-capitalist economics by Stuart Jeanne Bramhall (EB)
Carson Interviewed on Truth Jihad, American Freedom Radio (mp3)
Guest Post: Failbook’s Epic Fail: Does Zuckerberg Want Users To Pay?
Congress for New Urbanism 20
Some reports.
Peak Oil and Energy:
Scraping the bottom of the barrel
By: Jeremy Wakeford
Fukushima Disaster: One Year Later
Shannon Hayes:
(alt)
Shannon Hayes archive at Yes! (Her website and Radical Homemakers and Grassfed Cooking)
She has a new book coming out in September, Long Way on a Little.
Five Questions for Florence Williams
May 18, 2012, by Kristen Hewitt
In Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History, journalist Florence Williams delves into the biology, culture, and evolutionary history of this life-giving organ. In her witty and wide-ranging account, she explores where breasts come from, why we see them the way we do, and what they reveal as bellwethers for human health in a compromised environment.
Get Ready for the Breastaurant
Feminism:
Early Feminists: Moderate or Radical?
The Land of The Free and Home of The Soulless, Uninspiring and Robotic Women
Revisiting The Soulless, Uninspiring and Robotic Women
Gamer advice, some good, some bad: 66 Things On Life, Men and Women, and America
The Biggest Financial Decision a Young Man Will Ever Make
Even Miranda Lambert, supposed "Strong woman" tweeted publicly that she is reading the book Fifty Shades of Grey. SNL skit.
*warning* It is a rather bawdy skit.
How many women admit on Facebook or Twitter to reading this book. How many of them are self-proclaimed feminists? I'm not going to check search results.
The audience for ASCII porn
Women are Always Concerned with their Sexual Value
Catholic:
TAC: News from Two Alumni Priests in Minesota
The 2012 Baccalaureate Mass Homily by Rev. Cornelius M. Buckley, S.J. (mp3)
2012 Senior Address by James W. Thompson (’12) (mp3)
The 2012 Commencement Address of Mother Assumpta Long (mp3)
Gregory B. Sadler, Yves Simon on Moral Virtue (part 1 of 2)
Yves Simon on Moral Virtue (part 2 of 2)
Evangelization and human contact
Mass in the Vernacular, Yes. But at Least It Should Be Translated Well
I suspect the video of the FSSP ordinations will eventually be made available.
10 Fascinating Facts About Hildegard von Bingen
Michael Coren interview: Why he believes Christianity is the most abused faith on earth
What Can Historians Do with Clerical Masculinity? Lessons from Medieval Europe
Russian Orthodox:
Celebrations on the occasion of 5th anniversary of reunification of Russian Church Abroad with Moscow Patriarchate to take place in Moscow
Five Years of the Reunified Russian Church: Reflections of Fr. Nikolai Balashov
Five Years Together (mp3)
Patriach Kirill Gets Facebook Page
Diet and Health:
MF trains with Erwan Le Corre
Movnat Helps 65-year-old win Warrior Dash
The Real Deal on Adrenal Fatigue (full article)
Balanced Bites Podcast: Episode #21 with Karen Pendergrass of Paleo Approved (mp3)
HealthWatch: NorCal Olympic Athlete Credits Paleo Diet For Healing
444: Daniel ‘The Barefoot Professor’ Howell Says Shoes Destroy Your Feet (mp3)
Modern-Day Primal Living
Esther Gokhale had a TEDxStanford talk today. If it becomes available on YouTube I will post it.
Ask The Low-Carb Experts (Episode 13): ‘Low-Carbing Women & Weight Lifting’ | Dr. Cassandra Forsythe (mp3)
Music:
On the occasion of the passing of Donna Summer
Welmer, Goodbye, Donna
In Defense of Dance Music
Cappella Musicale Pontificia "Sistina"
Mark O'Connor, Bela Fleck, Jerry Douglas - Bowl Of Bula
Mark O'Connor - "Tom and Jerry"
Misc:
Cannes 2012: Lily Rabe to Play Silent Film Star Mary Pickford on Screen
Preview – Travis Haley – Climbing the Ladder
Article by Recoil Staff
A Day in the Life of Tim Ferris
The Origins of the Tuxedo, Explored (via Tea at Trianon)
Saturday, January 21, 2012
Items of Interest, 21 January 2012
Patrick J. Buchanan, Who Wants War with Iran
Daniel Larison, The Complete Folly of an Iranian War
Playing Our Strength - Why COIN Doesn't Work
Foreign Internal Defense in Iraq
Philip Giraldi, Creating American Terrorists
Defending corpse urination begs the question: who’s the racist? by Kelley Vlahos
The Military-Industrial Complex: The Enemy from Within by John W. Whitehead
Daniel Larison, Murray’s Proposal for Reducing Cultural Inequality
Elite and Underclass
A review by F. Roger Devlin of Coming Apart: The State of White America 1960-2010 by Charles Murray
Globalize or Localize? Beyond the Post-American World by Carl L. Bankston III
Tradition and Critique: On Wanting to Know by R. J. Snell
Decline and Fall by Thomas F. Bertonneau
(A review of At the End of an Age by John Lukacs. Another review)
Economics:
John Médaille, The Content of ‘Business Ethics’ Isn’t Ethics, or, The Hangman and the State
Link to a Nicole Foss interview at Automatic Earth: Infinite Rehypothecation
Allan Carlson, Röpke’s Conundrums Over the Natural Family
From last November, Richard Heinberg's appearance at the Commonwealth Club: The Great Disruption
Peak Oil:
Why Oil Prices Will Stay High
The Happy Hoarder: Fire in the belly
MRA:
Men's Earnings Haven't Just Stagnated Over Past 40 Years--They've Fallen
Jack Donovan interview (Dunbar's Number)
Dunbar's Number:
The Dunbar Number as a Limit to Group Sizes
NPR: Don't Believe Facebook; You Have Only 150 Friends
Why Dunbar's Number is Irrelevant
Robin Dunbar: we can only ever have 150 friends at most…
Robin Dunbar: How Many Friends Does One Person Need? from The RSA on FORA.tv
Robin Dunbar: How Many Friends Does One Person Need?
Feminism:
Is Feminism a Heresy? by Donna Steichen
Diet and Health:
Understand the calcium myth; here's what really makes healthy bones
Aloe Vera Gel
All Things Leptin - Leptin 101
Office Hours with Eric Westman:
A Gut Check for Many Ailments
The Daily Lipid: My Interview with Dave Asprey and Armi Legge
Catholic:
The Other Successors of Peter: The Patriarchs of Antioch
Père Abbé du Barroux sur Direct8/Dieu merci !
Fontgombault: Claude Pateau interviewé par l’Homme nouveau
John Hunwicke preaching in Latin - Anniversary Sermon in Newman's Pulpit
Music:
Something recent with Jero.
Misc:
Chris Costa!
Monday, January 09, 2012
Items of Interest, 9 January 2012
Tom Landess, R.I.P.
Alt Rght interview with PJB
The US-Iran economic war
CIA Chief Endorses Ron Paul (Michael Scheuer, of course.)
Rick Santorum Sounds Like Rachel Maddow on Nullification
Patrick Deneen, University, Community, Universe
Economics:
Do We Really Understand What an Economy Is? by John Willson
Lee Cheek, Agrarianism and Cultural Renewal
Is Distributism a Form of Capitalism?
John Zmirak, Say It Loud: Bourgeois and Proud
Ryan Grant, How to Prepare for Catastrophe
David Korten: Walking Away From the King from Katie Teague on Vimeo.
Money and LifeVia JM:
How US Policies Fueled Mexico's Great Migration
and
Energy and Sustainability:
Enough is Enough
Occupy Educated: Educating and Uniting 100% of the 99%
Tom Murphy, The Future Needs an Attitude Adjustment and Nuclear Options
There Is More to It than Oil by Chris Clugston
Oil Shock - The No Growth World by Alex Smith (EB)
Occupy sustainability by Juliet Schor (EB)
Economics: pre- and post- Copernican by Erik Lindberg
Heinberg, Kunstler, Foss, Orlov & Chomsky on A Public Affair
Relocalization:
What Is 'Slow Money'?
The Storm Surge of Decentralization
Death of an Institution: Desperate Mergers & Destructive Acquisitions
Everything you could possibly want to know about ‘In Transition 2.0′ by Rob Hopkins (EB)
Blog: Catholic Land Movement
Maybe old tractors do die by Gene Logsdon (EB)
As economic growth fails, how do we live? Part II: Out with the old
by Craig A. Severance (EB)
In with the new: part III of "As economic growth fails, how do we live?"
by Craig A. Severance (EB)
Wendell Berry:
On Wendell Berry: As farms go, so go the cities by Erik Curren (EB)
Counterpunch:
The Whole World is Watching by KEVIN CARSON
Why America Can’t Afford Its Military by Col. DOUGLAS MACGREGOR
Feminism:
Oz Conservative: Brainwashing Norway
Diet and Health:
Gary Taubes on Dieting
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Items of Interest, 13 December 2011
Kelley Vlahos, Iraq: No Comfort in Being Right
Rod Dreher, Russell Kirk, stranger and prophet
FRANKLIN C. SPINNEY, Why the US & Israel May Agree to Bombing Iran
Fabius Maximus, Why Americans should love Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings – we live there
Distributism:
Some recent posts about "Distributism"
Christopher Ferrera, In Defense of Distributism
Why Socialism and Distributism are Wholly Antithetical
Relocalization:
John Robb, Contagion: The communication of disease from one person to another by close contact.
Transition branching out? Land reform: losing and recovering the Commons
by Justin Kenrick (EB)
Economics:
Economics and the Pursuit of Happiness
Rod Dreher, More on the cult of Wall Street
The Journey Home-Wilhelm Röpke & the Humane Economy by Roger Scruton
Commentary: Oil, climate, agriculture and learning to love limits by Sharon Astyk (original)
OWS:
Kevin Carson, Revolution 2.0: Is Occupy Reaching a Takeoff Point?
Peak Oil:
Talkin’ peak oil blues: The new KunstlerCast book
Top 10 Peak Oil Books of 2011
Water:
As Global Population Grows, Water Matters More - interview
Wes Jackson:
Can We Restore the Prairie—And Still Support Ourselves?
The Atomic Bombings:
The Least Evil Option: A Defense of Harry Truman (via MoJ)
Diet and Health:
Karen De Coster, Austrian Economics Meets Primal Blueprint?
Feminism:
The reduction of masculinity
Decoding the Female Happiness Paradox
Catholic:
Msgr. Gherardini: Vatican II is not a super-dogma
The importance and the limits of the authentic Magisterium
Marshall McLuhan & Chesterton: New Touchstone
Friday, August 19, 2011
Thursday, June 09, 2011
Wednesday, June 08, 2011
Sunday, October 18, 2009
ISI lectures on Röpke
John Zmirak
The Columbia Club, Indianapolis, IN
4/12/2008
Röpke's Humane Economics: Lessons for the European Union (video available, mp3)
Roger Scruton, British Author, Philosopher, and Columnist
The Columbia Club, Indianapolis, IN
4/12/2008
Röpke's Conundrum Over the Natural Family (video available, mp3)
Allan C. Carlson
The Columbia Club, Indianapolis, IN
4/12/2008
Röpke and the Search for the Common Good (video available, mp3)
Edward Hadas
The Columbia Club, Indianapolis, IN
4/12/2008
Tuesday, May 09, 2006
Wilhelm Roepke and the Austrian school
Some info on Ropke (from the Von Mises Institute)
Biography of Wilhelm Roepke
How Different Were Roepke and Mises?
An article with some excerpts from Roepke on mass culture:
"Wilhelm Roepke's Wisdom: On modern mass culture"
(compare with Jose Ortega y Gassett)
I suppose I'll have to stick to Heinrich Pesch and Wilhelm Emmanuel von Kettler. Unfortunately, not much of Bishop von Kettler's writings are available in English.
Through Chronicles I came upon a reference to Hans-Hermann Hoppe. Hoppe is another member of the Austrian school. His article, "Secession, the State, and the Immigration Problem." His LewRockwell website. His discussion of his book, Democracy: The God that Failed. (I had come across this book before, but I had not done any further research on its author at the time.)
I also found this: Court Life in China: The Capital - Its Officials and People by Isaac Taylor Headland