Hey, Western Washington Chestertonians!

It is with pleasure that we invite you to the third lecture of the season, next Thursday, January 21, at 7:30 pm on the campus of Seattle Pacific University.

Please note that this time we are back in our more usual room: Conference Room 109, Otto Miller Hall, across Third Avenue West from the Royal Brougham Pavilion (see the campus map).

The full Events Calendar for our current season is available at our website.

We are pleased to present the following lecture this month:

Distributism, Capitalism, and the Global Economic Crisis
David Paul Deavel
Associate Editor, Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture;
Contributing Editor, Gilbert Magazine

What caused the global economic crisis? Lack of regulation of free markets? Too much bad regulation and intervention by governments? Throughout the twentieth century a number of groups—starting with Chesterton and Belloc’s distributists—have contended that capitalists are right about the dangers of socialism and other forms of statism, but that capitalism inherently leads to statism and the kind of situations we face today. As Chesterton said, Hudge (Big Government) and Gudge (Big Business) are twins. In this evening’s lecture, David Paul Deavel will analyze the similarities and differences between the diagnoses and solutions offered by distributists and (particularly) Christian capitalists, arguing that the common ground and possibility for collaboration between them is greater than they often make it out to be.

David Paul Deavel is Associate Editor of Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture and Contributing Editor to Gilbert Magazine, the official publication of the American Chesterton Society. He is finishing a doctoral dissertation on John Henry Newman from Fordham University and his writing has appeared in America, Catholic World Report, Commonweal, First Things, National Catholic Register, St. Austin Review, Touchstone, and many other places.

As always, pizza and refreshments will be served afterward. We look forward to seeing you there!

Yours faithfully,

The Seattle G. K. Chesterton Society