ABSTRACT
Distributism was the name applied to the political and economic program of two prominent English writers: Hilaire Belloc and G. K. Chesterton. But the Distributist-Agrarian alliance stumbled over the shortcomings of the Review and the journal died in 1936. The task of translating Distributism into an American idiom then fell to the popular American historian, Herbert Agar. The Southern Agrarians produced some of their finest essays for the Review, including Donald Davidson's splendid analysis of the continuing power of American regionalism, "Still Rebels, Still Yankees". The Southern Agrarians in their work to relieve tenant farmers and "the Single Taxers" in their quest for stable land tenure, showed the way for "distributist political action". The Catholic and Protestant groups, together with the Borsodi Homestead movement, had begun "distributist educational action". The Consumer Co-ops stood for "distributist economic action" while the Southern Agrarian "Discussion Groups" sparked the quest for "a common and inclusive" doctrine.
