The Cookie Jar Elections of 2016

The Cookie Jar Elections of 2016

The issues now being debated in the 2016 elections are framed as if the country revolved around a great big cookie jar. The benefits and promises candidates offer are like cookies that must be substantial, instantly gratifying and abundant. All the problems the nation faces seem to be reduced to who has … Read more

Communiqué: The American TFP Endorses Bishop Athanasius Schneider’s Solid and Courageous Statement on the Synod

Communiqué American TFP Endorses Bishop Athanasius Schneider’s Solid and Courageous Statement on the Synod

Communiqué: The American TFP Endorses Bishop Athanasius Schneider’s Solid and Courageous Statement on the Synod Based on solid arguments, Bishop Athanasius Schneider has issued a timely statement on the Synod of Bishops’ Final Report in which he comments on items 84 to 86. Grounded in perennial Catholic teaching, his considerations are a … Read more

Author Horvat to Bring Return to Order to Delaware

Author Horvat to Bring Return to Order to Delaware 1

Internationally acclaimed author to bring a case for Return to Order to Delaware HANOVER, PA (November 5, 2015) — A storm is brewing on America’s horizon, according to John Horvat II, author of Return to Order: From a Frenzied Economy to an Organic Christian Society—Where We’ve Been, How We Got Here, and Where … Read more

Return to Order Sales Surge Beyond 70,000 Globally

Return to Order Sales Surge Beyond 70,000 Globally 2

“Return to Order offers genuine hope” HANOVER, PA — The number of people reading John Horvat’s book continues to grow, both in the U.S. and abroad. More than 70,000 copies of Return to Order: From a Frenzied Economy to an Organic Christian Society—Where We’ve Been, How We Got Here, and Where We … Read more

Life in the Shadows

Life in the Shadows

If the pace of life seems overwhelming, it might well be because we have assumed so many of the jobs once held by others. This is the position of Craig Lambert in his book, Shadow Work: The Unpaid, Unseen Jobs That Fill Your Day (Berkeley, Calif., Counterpoint Press, 2015). The Harvard sociologist … Read more

Five Ways Student Loans Are Ruining Our Economy and Culture

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As the fall semester begins, students are attending classes and incurring great debt. A July report of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia finds that student loans have increased tenfold since 1999. Even worse is the acceleration of this debt over the last eight years. Since 2007, loans doubled from $537 billion … Read more

Gender Ideology Must Be Resisted

Gender Ideology Must Be Resisted

Mr. Mathias von Gersdorff is a director of the German Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property (TFP). He also directs the campaigns Children in Danger, which deals with the effects of pornography and media upon children, and SOS Life that deals with pro-life issues, both special campaigns of the … Read more

Human Touch or iTouch

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“What would you think if a robot showed up with your food?” This is the question I asked Ross and Kelly, a young couple in a Newark, New Jersey airport restaurant. “Oh, interesting,” answered an intrigued Kelly. “No thanks,” disagreed Ross, “you would miss the human touch.” Not the best way to … Read more

Remedy for Contemporary Moral Hardness

Remedy for Contemporary Moral Hardness

Today we see all these things: mothers in whose bowels the love of their children decreases in intensity; husbands who cast an entire family into disgrace solely to satisfy their own instincts and passions; children who, indifferent to the misery or moral abandonment in which they leave their parents, focus exclusively on … Read more