WCAT Radio The Open Door (October 2, 2020)

This week on The Open Door, Catholic philosophers Jim Hanink, Mario Ramos-Reyes, and Christopher Zehnder discuss James E. Hartley’s provocative “Revisiting Chesterton and The Mystery of Capital.” This provocation, and we take it to be such, recently appeared in Public Discourse. Our special guest is the author and distributist Tom Storck. He’ll lead us in examining Hartley’s claims that “Allowing capital to move is exactly what generates wealth” and that the champions of localism are in fact “apostles of the status quo.” And where does Chesterton fit? Our hero wrote that “We learn about reformers without knowing what they had to reform, about rebels without a notion of what they rebelled against, of memorials that are not connected with any memory, and restorations of things that had apparently never existed before.” So, then, with respect to the origin of capitalism are we guilty as charged? Or are we, as they say, “being stitched up”? Please join us! (October 2, 2020)