John Medaille, a fellow with whom many of you may be familiar, and with whom I’ve had the pleasure of corresponding over the past months, recently published a very exciting new book which promises to answer all our questions (and perhaps provides that “Solution in a Nutshell” that I rashly promised)–Toward a Truly Free Market: A Distributist Perspective on the Role of Government, Taxes, Health Care, Deficits, and More.  

If like me you are eager to read it, but like me aren’t sure when you’ll have the time, you can find an excellent temporary substitute in Bp. Chuck Huckaby’s thorough review at WorldviewChurch.org, which he was kind enough to send my way.  Medaille is a writer well-versed in the Roman Catholic ethical and political teaching, and in modern economics, which is extraordinary rarity and makes his work very important for all of us trying to find a truly theological but genuinely workable solution to the twin evils of capitalism and socialism.