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Comrade Ruskin
If only the proletariat had followed Ruskin instead of Marx. Is it too late to revisit a path not taken?
Eugene McCarraher
Essay
Is Christian Business an Oxymoron?
One of the challenges of running a community business is that it may do too well.
John Rhodes
Essay
Who Owns a River?
The land is no longer linked by pathways; it is divided into parcels.
Christian Woodard
Essay
Robin Hood Economics
I must admit that Robin Hood would probably disapprove of me.
Edmund Waldstein
Essay
Working Girls
Sweatshops never went away.
Maria Hengeveld
Report
The McDonald's Test
Don’t fetishize poverty. But be a little bit more willing to go into the neighborhood people told you not to go into.
Chris Arnade
Essay

From the Editor

The Economics of Love
There is a common life that overcomes economic exploitation, a life that is both thoroughly practical and independent of the state.
Peter Mommsen
From the Editor

Insights

The Interim God
Forget religion versus secularism. The battle is mammon versus humanity.
Eberhard Arnold
Essay
Not So Simple
Would unplugging from the industrial world mean I’d lose touch with reality, or finally discover it?
Essay
Was Martin Luther King a Socialist?
The iconic public philosopher has much to teach today’s radicals and visionaries, whatever their politics.
Brandon Terry
Essay
I Begin with a Little Girl’s Hair
With the red hair of one she-urchin in the gutter I will set fire to all modern civilization.
GK Chesterton
Reading
The Bronx Agrarian
You’re told you can’t fight city hall, but yes, we did. We fought city hall.
Susannah Black Roberts
Doers
Exposed
How does the city change if we pass through it in a blackened bubble?
Harold Munoz
Personal History
What Are the Heart’s Necessities?
A musician breathes new life into timeless poems of passion and longing.
Jane Tyson Clement
Becca Stevens
Reading
Anabaptist Readings on Community of Goods
Property has no part in the Christian church.
Reading

Web Exclusives

Big Tech vs. Our Kids
Disadvantaged kids have fallen victim to the unfettered market forces of Big Tech.
Only a Moral Market is a Free Market
Neoliberalism goes against the grain of humanity. Eventually, such financial “experiments against reality” will fail.
Adrian Pabst

Arts & Letters

Family and Friends Issue 21
News from Plough’s family and friends around the world.
Family and Friends
Readers Respond: Issue 21
Letters to the editor: vegetarianism, the practice of family mealtimes, caring for creation, and a Plough Quarterly–inspired painting.
Forum
Kochel: Waterfall I
Kochel: Waterfall I by Wassily Kandinsky
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