Author Archives: Belden Fields

People around the world are still in a state of disbelief. Children ask parents if this was real or a movie. For days we all walked around in a kind of surreal fog, asking ourselves from time to time if … Continue reading →

The expression ‘living wage’, and the concept that underlies it, goes back at least as far as Rerum Novarum, the encyclical issued by Pope Leo XIII on May 5, 1891. The moral imperative that it expresses, so important to progressive … Continue reading →