Business as a Calling
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In straightforward language, Novak (Belief and Unbelief) sets out to refute the popular conception that business leaders are materialistic and rapacious, asserting that "business not only creates social connections, lifts its participants out of poverty,...
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Acton Research
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From the Journal of Markets & Morality
Ideas, Associations, and the Making of Good Cities
by
Robert
Driscoll
Swirling around the political discourse regarding global warming and record high gas prices are fundamental questions about city and community life in modern America. Increasingly, public officials and those in leadership positions speak of “smart growth” and its ugly alternative, “suburban sprawl.” Often forgotten, however, in the political wrangling is the heart of the entire issue: What is it that makes a city good? Recently, the New Urbanist movement in architecture and in law has tried to answer this question by revitalizing traditional center cities and preventing sprawl through higher density areas more dependent on the bicycle than the automobile.
As important as revitalizing physical spaces might be, however, it can only do so much. Missing from the dialogue on what ails American cities is indicative of the individualistic society in which Americans live: civic associations and authoritative institutions outside of government. Yet, associations and the ideas to which they are dedicated are essential if cities are to regain their prominence in American life. Only when this larger truth is recognized and understood will political discourse start to bear the fruit of a more meaningful community life.
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In the Liberal Tradition
Isaac Thomas Hecker (1819 - 1888)
 “One of the natural signs of the true Paulist is that he would prefer to suffer from the excesses of liberty rather than from the arbitrary actions of tyranny.”
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The notion of sin and repentance waned with the belief in authority. Men thought they could make good the evil they did.
~ Lord Acton
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