Author Archives: Crystal Hernandez

28 Sep
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Redistributing the Not Distributed

Of course, that entire system of thought ignores what really happens in the economy: how value arises, the importance of the entrepreneurial vocation, and the primacy of the individual person who stands de jure as unique and unrepeatable. It begins ...

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20 Sep
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The Importance of the Right Questions

Aristotle saw commerce in two ways. One was natural. Natural exchange is akin to bartering for what we need. If I need bananas and you need rice, we trade to meet those needs—the value of the exchange is exhausted by ...

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12 Sep
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The Greatness of Capitalism

The intellectual classes resort to envy. Why should I, they wonder, make less than that uneducated Rotarian making millions by selling soap? Envy motivates their hatred. The pulpit-pounding religionists lament the lowering of morals, greed, and the corruption of affluence. ...

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07 Sep
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Workers Unite!

The day evokes in me memories of marches I attended as a child, and the slogan we chanted, “Workers of the world, unite!" The famous rallying cry comes from The Communist Manifesto and was popularized in English as "Workers of ...

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29 Aug
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What We Are Fighting is Racialism

The countless souls trapped in communities where incivility, anger, and violence reign are not often covered by the news. Pursuit of justice does not have to be this way, but this push for racial justice has become what seems to ...

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21 Aug
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What is Social Justice?

Another word associated with social justice is “the common good.” A wonderful term in itself, its meaning in practice often hinges on a key question, namely, who decides what is the common good. In contemporary times that responsibility gradually ...

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15 Aug
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“No Justice, No Peace”?

Dr. King saw the need to make a case for the reality of structural injustice that necessitated a response that need not be violent but could be violent. In effect, the Black Power movement responded to the same structural reality ...

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01 Aug
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Black Lives Matter: The Proposition, The Organization, and The Movement

If one is not in alignment with that ideological understanding of black life in America and with the goals necessarily resulting from such understanding, it is reasonable to ask what the organization is doing with an otherwise fine proposition. After ...

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27 Jul
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Activism or Activity: Up to Us

Activity heals; it renews the mind and the eyes so people can see a space of subjectivity and possibility, ever so small initially, but ever so true. The activity opens a path toward authentic human action and has a miraculous ...

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17 Jul
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The Hopeful Roots of a Movement

“For the sons of this world are shrewder in dealing with their own generation than the sons of the light.” –Luke 16:8 The Civil Rights Movement grew out of a profound spiritual conviction that the men and women of that ...

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