John Médaille

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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

Reflections on the Revolution in America

John Médaille - November 23, 2012

This article first appeared in Ethika Politika, the Journal of the Center for Morality in Public Life. To all appearances, nothing happened. On Monday, we had...

The Music of The Spheres and The Terminally Tone-Deaf

John Médaille - March 21, 2012

I was watching a film called Chartres Cathedral and the Geometry of the Sacred the other day. For some reason, the Gothic gargoyles put...

There is No Such Thing as a Bank Loan

John Médaille - February 3, 2012

“Dexia” is not a word familiar to most Americans, and if told that it is a French bank in need of a fresh bailout,...

Friends and Strangers: A Meditation on Money

John Médaille - January 12, 2012

I start my meditation with a true story that will serve as a parable. On his 21st birthday, the nature writer Francis Thompson was...

Distributism and the Supremes

John Médaille - December 3, 2011

My latest book was cited as an "authority" before the Supreme Court in Florida v. HHS, the "Obamacare" case. You can read the brief...

Which Way for Catholics?

John Médaille - October 1, 2011

For all the Porchers in the New York City area, Christopher Ferrara and I will be speaking at the Una Voce Symposium, Libertarianism or...

Easter and Economics

John Médaille - August 18, 2011

Robert T. Miller and I discuss two opposed views of Catholic Social Teaching as it relates to economics in this month's issue of Dappled...

We Have Met the Enemy, and He is Us

John Médaille - August 15, 2011

One has a free choice of whether to take one's cocaine in crystal or powdered form. However, while this may be a free choice, it is never a choice of freedom, since either choice leads to slavery.

Will There Be Zombies?

John Médaille - July 28, 2011

But that is not so with computers, for no matter how many doctorates one holds in computer science, at some point the system disappears into a world of magic.

City of Dreams

John Médaille - May 2, 2011

Imagine designing a city for people rather than cars: Curitiba, Brazil

The Mosh-Pit of Philosophy, the Pedestal of Science, and a Plate of Green Beans

John Médaille - April 18, 2011

Last Saturday, I had the pleasure of addressing the ISI Conference at Taylor University, “Whose Capitalism? Which Free Market? Exploring the Moral Dimensions of...

Whose Capitalism? Which Free Market?

John Médaille - March 30, 2011

Those Front Porchers in the Indianapolis-Fort Wayne area might want to attend the ISI Conference, "Whose Capitalism? Which Free Market?: Exploring the Moral Dimensions...