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

Scientia and Sapentia, or, What the Schoolmen Knew

John Médaille - November 14, 2010

Modern science has given us modern miracles, like iPhones and atom bombs and Chrysler cars, but has not given us the wisdom to use them.

The Cost of Everything

John Médaille - October 18, 2010

Without proper accounting, there can be neither honest pricing nor clean water.

Neo-Feudalism and the Invisible Fist

John Médaille - August 27, 2010

So how did we get to a situation where the “freedom of markets” has come to mean “servility” and corporate control?

Wendell Berry and the Great Economy

John Médaille - August 5, 2010

Economics has become a totalizing system claiming the power to explain all things. It is as much a religious system—by another name—as is Berry's Great Economy.

Naive Experts: Economists and the Real World

John Médaille - July 27, 2010

If your doctor had this same track record of diagnosing and treating disease, you’d be dead by now.

The Armani Exchange

John Médaille - July 16, 2010

Due to the vagaries of the weather and the incompetence and indifference of Delta Airlines, I found myself homeless in New York City for...

On Not Asking the Right Questions

John Médaille - June 16, 2010

In 1954, the Bell system (at the time, THE phone company) decided that a technical background was not sufficient, and sought to give its...

Lethal Loyalties: Dulce et Decorum Est

John Médaille - June 15, 2010

What if the nation-state was not the cure but the cause of the wars that we term “religious”?

Doing God’s Work at Goldman’s

John Médaille - June 7, 2010

Regulation, as we all know, was merely a demonic attempt by closet communists to deprive us of our liberties. And the markets, being made of of sophisticated buyers and sellers was self-regulating, so the government could just bug-out. This was an article of religious faith.