Golden Dreams
New book by Kevin Starr
Institute
Trustee, Kevin Starr, 2006 National Humanities Medal recipient and California
State Librarian Emeritus recently published "Golden
Dreams, California in an Age of Abudance, 1950-1963."
Oxford University Press
describes
Starr's work:
"A narrative tour de
force that combines wide-ranging
scholarship
with captivating prose, Kevin Starr's acclaimed
multi-volume
Americans and the California
Dream is an unparalleled work of cultural
history. In this volume, Starr covers the
crucial postwar period--1950
to 1963--when
the California we know today first burst into
prominence."
Fint out more about Kevin Starr's lecture
by clicking here.
An Acceptable Face for Capitalism
by Clifford Longley
With the all-conquering global free market
seeming to trounce all
competing social and
economic ideologies, a moral and practical
framework
looks increasingly necessary.
Could Catholic social teaching fill the gap?
Read the entire article here.
The Tablet, August 23rd, 2008, pages 10-11
The Centesimus Annus Foundation
The Centesimus Annus Foundation (CSTWeb.org)
aims to work toward the diffusion of human, ethical,
social, and Christian
values, as described in particular
in the encyclical “Centesimus
Annus”, written by
Pope John Paul II in 1991. The Foundation’s
goals
are to promote knowledge of the social teachings of
the Church and of
the activity of the Holy See among
business and professional leaders, to help
expand
the Church’s impact in all sectors of contemporary
society, and
to coordinate fund raising activities to
help support the activity of the Apostolic
See.
Because both the Institute for Advanced Catholic
Studies and the Centesimus
Annus Foundation are
dedicated to fostering thoughtful discourse about
the
Church’s social teaching, they have jointly founded
a scholarly website,
CSTWeb.org. Here scholars can
post their own work concerning issues of the
morality
of economic life, and can respond to papers posted
by others.