Third Ways: How Bulgarian Greens, Swedish Housewives, and Beer-Swilling Englishmen Created Family-Centered Economies-And Why They Failed

This is the book I'm currently reading by Allan C. Carlson.     I love the subtitle!

Distributism, Pat Buchanan, Etc.

Just a record of inconveniences I've been rightly considering, or rights I've been inconveniently considering, or considerations I've been rightly inconveniencing.

Pat Buchanan's book The Suicide of a Superpower, youtube audio, here.
Interview by Peter Robinson, an excellent interviewer who actually engages the interviewees dialecticaly, here.

Also been listening to Allan Carlson discuss the health (or illness) of the culture of family, here, for example.

And been learning, for example, here, of how distributism is becoming more than just a side idea of conservative Catholics who love Chesterton. (It was never a side idea of them, anyway).

Been interested also in understanding Islam.  As here.

Quotations to Remember

A cultivated mind -- I do not mean that of a philosopher [only], but any mind to which the foundations of knowledge have been opened, and which has been taught, in any tolerable degree, to exercise its faculties -- finds sources of inexhaustible interest in all that surrounds it: in the objects of nature, the achievements of art, the imaginations of poetry, the incidents of history, the ways of mankind, past and present, and their prospects in the future.

J.S. Mill, Utilitarianism