Announcing the new Os Justi Press series “The Distributist Bookshelf”—a freshly typeset library of classics that synthesized and developed Catholic Social Teaching in the modern era.
We’re kicking off the series with four reprints in paperback and hardcover editions:
In 𝐸𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑜𝑚𝑖𝑐𝑠 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝐻𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑛, an insightful study of wealth, property, money, and economic processes, Hilaire Belloc lays out his subject with the clarity of a handbook for youths. Foreword by eminent proponent of CST, Thomas Storck.
In 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑆𝑒𝑟𝑣𝑖𝑙𝑒 𝑆𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑒, a work admired even by anti-distributists, Belloc seeks to explain the increasing discontent of modern capitalist societies. Writing after Tocqueville and Marx, Belloc shows his debt to their practice of viewing social and economic life as expressive of fundamental intellectual forms. Foreword by James Matthew Wilson; afterword by Joseph Pearce.
G.K. Chesterton, author of 𝑈𝑡𝑜𝑝𝑖𝑎 𝑜𝑓 𝑈𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑂𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝐸𝑠𝑠𝑎𝑦𝑠, understood that the small does not defeat the large by imitating its scale; it persists by refusal to be conformed to its errors. Instead of offering readers optimism, he offers them truth—a refusal to consider the battle between traditional sanity and modern madness finished. An introduction by Daniel Schwindt helpfully sets the work in its historical context.
Chesterton was commissioned to write 𝑊ℎ𝑎𝑡’𝑠 𝑊𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑊𝑜𝑟𝑙𝑑 for a “broad” audience, so he focuses on what is wrong with the world not from an expressly religious perspective but from a social perspective. He identifies four culprits: Big Government, Big Business, Feminism, and Public Education. With a new introduction by Dale Ahlquist.
Visit Os Justi Press, where there’s an automatic 10% discount on all four as a set:
More volumes to come, by Belloc, Chesterton, Penty, McNabb, and other distributists both famous and obscure!
N.B. These books are also listed on Amazon sites, but they are harder to find because of many other (quite crummy) reprint editions that will come up first. The following links that will take you directly to the new OJP paperbacks:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HD9Z4XW8
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HDFPFMWJ
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HF1RX69J
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HD9NYW56
(The hardcovers on Amazon are listed separately.)
