John Médaille

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http://www.distributism.blogspot.com

John Médaille is a businessman in Irving, Texas, and also an Instructor in Theology at the University of Dallas, where he teaches a unique course on the Social Encyclicals for Business Students. He is the father of five, grandfather of two, and husband of one. He is the author of The Vocation of Business: Social Justice in the Marketplace and is finishing up another book, Equity and Equilibrium: The Political Economy of Distributism. John also blogs at The Distributist Review.

Recent Essays

How To Not Lose to ISIS

John Médaille - September 6, 2014

My meditation on the question from The American Conservative.

Things Grow Better With Coke

John Médaille - July 15, 2014

The humble squash bug is truly a remarkable creature. The neonicotinoid pesticides that play such havoc with the fragile bees and birds have no...

Piketty’s Challenge: A Past That Consumes the Future

John Médaille - May 8, 2014

But the rate of profit does not, like rent and wages, rise with the prosperity, and fall with the declension of the society. On...

Possessive Individualism: Can We Really Own Ourselves?

John Médaille - December 23, 2013

The bedrock principle of all Liberalism, whether of the Right or the Left, is Locke’s assertion that “every man has a Property in his...

The Triumph of the Liberal State

John Médaille - November 12, 2013

First published in Dutch as De triomf van de liberale staat in the anthology Essays Over Het Midden (Groningen, The Netherlands: Uitgeverij de Blauwe Tijger, 2013) It was sometime back in...

An Imaginary Conservatism: The Realists vs. the Romantics

John Médaille - September 26, 2013

Reprinted from Ethika Politika Michael Hannon has made a serious attempt to deal with the disputes between the “capitalist” and “anti-capitalist” conservatives, and such a...

The REPEALicans and the GOP’s Secret Hope

John Médaille - August 21, 2013

In what passes for political humor these days, Nancy Pelosi has ridiculed the GOP as the “REPEALicans.” She did so in response to the...

The 3% Solution, the Cruz Gambit, the Full Rubio, and the Neo-Neocons

John Médaille - August 16, 2013

The advantage of being out of power is that it gives a political party time to think and reflect. Better yet, it gives a...

Radical Traditionalists: The Fall of Triumph Magazine

John Médaille - July 3, 2013

This article first appeared in Ethika Politika, the journal of the Center for Morality in Public Life. In May of 1970, back from the Vietnam War...

What Does the Boss Really Do? Business Education and the Liberal Arts

John Médaille - March 7, 2013

An address given to the Ciceronian Society at Mount St. Mary's University, March 3. At the start of each semester, I ask my MBA students,...

The Pickup Truck and the Tommy Gun

John Médaille - December 28, 2012

During the Republican primary, Newt Gingrich joked that “you can’t put a gun rack on Volt.” Newt was, of course, trying to identify...

Why Isn’t Romania Rich?

John Médaille - December 5, 2012

An address to the Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest, June 22, 2012 It is puzzling to note that somewhere between 4 million and 8 million...