Conservatives are wrong to dismiss distributism as utopian — or, worse still, to confuse it with big-government socialism and high taxation, argues American author and academic Arthur W. Hunt III. Distributism aims to do quite the opposite: it promotes the advantages of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and of widespread ownership of private property. Late last year, when Pope Francis issued his first apostolic exhortation, Evangelii Gaudium, much more was made of his utterances …
