John Médaille



John Médaille is an instructor of theology at the University of Dallas, a businessman, and author of many papers and books on Distributism.

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An Imaginary Conservatism: Realists v. Romanticists

September 24, 2013

It is the capitalists—not the “anti-capitalists”—whose economic theory is propped up by liberal individualism and historical romanticism.

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Radical Traditionalists: The Fall of Triumph Magazine

June 24, 2013

I will always be grateful for having been taught by Fritz Wilhelmsen and having been tutored by Triumph. Both in its success and in its failure, Triumph has much to teach us.

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Oops! Who Knew? The Cosmic Comedy of Fatherhood

June 13, 2013

Here’s the joke about human fatherhood: nature doesn’t give us guys a clue; we have to make it up as we go along. And while we may get things relatively right, we are certainly absolutely wrong. We are speaking a language we don’t understand while walking a road paved with banana peels.

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RINOs and CINOs: The Cult of Mammon and the Future of America

April 8, 2013

What if the real problem for Republicans isn’t about politics, but about religion? What if the question is not about RINOs but about CINOs (Christians In Name Only) and the real issue isn’t about deviation from the party line but from the gospel message?

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Reflections on the Revolution in America

November 13, 2012

The current system will not work, and the crises we see are merely the working out of its internal contradictions. Obama will not make it work and Romney would only have made it worse. Change will come, whether we will it or not. The only real question is whether the change will come from collapse, or whether we will direct the change to better ends through peaceful means. But the only romantic impossibility is the status quo.


The Content of ‘Business Ethics’ Isn’t Ethics, or, The Hangman and the State

January 19, 2012

Analyzing workplace decisions using “ethical systems” does little to comprehend the imperatives that drive corporations to do good or avoid evil.