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Daniel Schwindt

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December 2016

December 23, 2016

Roasting Marshmallows at the Apocalypse

[A review of Nothing to Vote For: The Futility of the American Electoral Process, by Daniel...

May 2016

May 06, 2016

Substituting Charity for Justice

This is the skillful attempt that is being made to substitute Philanthropy for Justice. There...

May 04, 2016

Why You Might Not Want a ‘Strong Work Ethic’

Our society and morals are suffering because of this.

April 2016

April 28, 2016

I sometimes give money to bums

Sometimes we do things on the basis of an intuition and only later are we...

April 12, 2016

Amoris Laetitia, Vatican II, and “The Long Defeat”: A Defense of the Pope as Shepherd

There are many devout people, it seems, who imagine the Church a purely transcendent, an...

March 2016

March 14, 2016

Insanity and Alienation in America: Revisited

On February 25th there was another "mass shooting," this time in Hesston, Kansas, just down...

February 2016

February 29, 2016

Book Recommendation: Poor Relief in England by Marjorie McIntosh

Consider this more of a friendly "book recommendation" than a "review." I don't wish to outline...

February 22, 2016

The Bright Side of Dark Times

Politics in America seems to be going off the rails. Therefore, I thought it wise...

February 19, 2016

The Useless People

The useless people in our society are not the poor or the unemployed. Most economic theories and...

February 18, 2016

Two Roads to Gigantism

Gigantism is a condition characterized by excessive growth. In the human body, it is caused...

February 11, 2016

C.S. Lewis and the Prostitution of Work

Apropos of my previous outburst on the nature of contemporary work, it seems some clarification...

February 09, 2016

Ivan Illich Never Fails Me

Ivan Illich is a writer I frequently return to, not only for information and argument,...

February 01, 2016

Journal Entry of a Working Man

I have abhorred work for as long as I can remember. I don’t mean that...

January 2016

January 23, 2016

A Better Paradigm for Class Analysis

John Michael Greer over at The Archdruid Report has produced a great piece of analysis on the American economic...