August 24, 2012
Commonweal has an essay up by Angus Sibley, whose book "The Poisoned Spring of Economic Libertarianism" was one of my top five reads this past year, about the economic vision of those who are currently informing the GOP. Bishop Boyea and Archbishop Naumann spoke up at the USCCB meeting in June, and seemed to be reading from the Father Robert Sirico playbook. Sibley's essay rebuts Sirico and his ilk with both economic good sense and a firm grasp of magisterial teaching. And, before anyone embraces Paul Ryan too closely, they should be aware of the ideas that animate him, not just Ayn Rand, but Hayek and von Mises and this crowd of Austrian economists and their American acolytes.
