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Attacked on Both Flanks, Leo XIII's Just Wage Between Individualists and Socialists
Leo XIII defended private property against socialism and bound the wage contract to a justice older than any bargain. Individualists heard socialism; others saw a Church preaching patience to the poor. That double charge is the shape of the position itself.
Oblivion or Disclosure, What Naming Informers Can and Cannot Heal
When a regime of secret denunciation falls, should its files be closed or opened? From Domitian's Rome to revolutionary France, the texts suggest that naming informers repairs only when it also judges the system that recruited and paid them.
