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The upscale natural foods grocery chain Whole Foods now stocks a brand of cereal called Ezekiel 4:9. It could pass for any other gravelly, whole-grain, flour-free concoction on the shelves, but Ezekiel's box credits its inspiration to "the Holy Scriptures."



We call Whole Foods, Whole Paycheck in my office.


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God, Guts, and Granola

Others have chastised Dreher for praising Hillary Clinton’s mantra “it takes a village,” but I’m more disturbed by his economic views. Crunchy Cons mentions neither Ludwig von Mises nor F.A. Hayek, and it seems entirely possible that Dreher has never read anything by the free-market Austrian economists or their successors. Instead he relies on Small Is Beautiful author E.F. Schumacher, practically the only economist mentioned in the book.

Austrians are pretty much ignored in academic economics by everyone except other Austrians. That social darwinist thing put a lot of people off.

This is a telling choice. As the economist Mark Skousen has pointed out, Small Is Beautiful has a substantially Malthusian message that “enslaves everyone in a life of ‘nonmaterialistic’ values.” For Skousen, Schumacher’s Buddhist economics was a primitive mysticism that “clearly results in a primitive economy.” Dreher, no doubt, would dismiss Skousen as a soulless libertarian.



Malthus is studied for his theories on marginal lands. The human population grows exponentially while food production grows arithmetically. Hence, human populations are condemned to subsistence. Malthus wrote in the 1820s and did not for see how technology could increase the productivity of farmlands. Some say he was wrong, others say it will come to pass eventually. His ideas gave rise to the moniker 'the dismal science' for economics. He was an Anglican vicar, BTW. Catholic Lite!