by Lindy Davies
To hear left-leaning folks at places like Common Dreams tell it, we should’ve done something serious about global warming twenty years ago: the glaciers are melting, seas rising, hurricanes intensifying and the polar bears are doomed. Al Gore is the hero of the day, and sentient beings everywhere are all pretty much screwed. I don’t understand why this news is presented with a kind of unnerving, told-ya-so glee, but it is. Continue reading
by Mason Gaffney
Henry George foreboded that landowners might take a growing wedge of the national “pie”, or product. Labor’s wedge might grow absolutely, as the whole pie grows, but still fall as a fraction.
It might even shrivel. In our times, George’s grimmer scenario is coming true. Continue reading
by Mike Curtis
One year things are going well, and the next year they’re not. Why is that? How does it happen that, all of a sudden, more and more people, who are willing and able to work, are unable to find employment? Continue reading
by Lindy Davies
Henry George’s theory of capital and interest in Book III, Chapter 3 of Progress and Poverty has long troubled many of his followers. What are we to make of George’s theory of interest today? Continue reading
by Herbert S. Bigelow
Herbert S. Bigelow was the pastor of the Vine St. Congregational Church in Cincinnatti around the turn of the 20th century. Despite repeated warnings from superiors in the church, he persisted in giving outspoken single-tax sermons, and developed a strong following. His collection of sermons, The Religion of Revolution, was published in 1916, with an introduction by Mrs. Mary Fels. Continue reading
by Will Lissner
In 1887 Father Edward McGlynn, the beloved priest of the New York Irish and other Catholics, and the learned pastor of St. Stephen’s Church, founded the Anti-Poverty Society. It was to bring him into collision with an authoritarian Aichbishop, Michael Corrigan, Continue reading
Our movement has always been about the big questions. We often point out that the single tax is no mere fiscal adjustment; fully applied, it is a comprehensive economic reform, capable of reconciling justice and efficiency. Continue reading