The Acton Institute was founded on the basis of ten principles that integrate “Judeo-Christian Truths with Free Market Principles.” You’ve probably heard the term your entire life, but do you know what “Judeo-Christian” means? Continue Reading… Related posts: What is …
The Bookmonger podcast talks to Samuel Gregg about his new book
Samuel Gregg, director of research at the Acton Institute, released a new book titled, Reason, Faith, and the Struggle for Western Civilization. In his book, Gregg discusses the dangers that an unbalanced relationship between faith and reason imposes on a society. …
Recalling the one lesson: The US-China trade war revisited
Influential thinker Henry Hazlitt argued that the “art of economics” could be distilled to a generally applicable single lesson: looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy [and] tracing the consequences of …
Solzhenitsyn: Freedom’s habits and hindrances (video)
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn spent his suffering the inhumanity of Communism, then revealing it to the world, then exhorting the West to revive the values that made it the world’s greatest bulwark of freedom. Continue Reading… Related posts: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, the dragon …
Without arms control, hypersonic weapons will magnify already growing nuclear dangers
In 2018 the U.S. Congress enacted a law requiring the USA to develop an American “hypersonic weapon” to be operational by 2022 and the Trump administration budgeted accordingly. The United States, Russia and China are all engaged in the development …
News: Stephen P. Barrows joins the Acton Institute
Economist and Aquinas College Executive V.P. Stephen P. Barrows has been named Managing Director of Programs at the Acton Institute. Barrows, who also holds the titles of Provost and Dean of Faculty at Aquinas in Grand Rapids, begins his work …
Why should Christians support free markets?
One of the abiding joys of working at a think tank like the Acton Institute is that interesting people are always asking you big questions. I was recently asked, “Why should Christians support free markets?” The question is large, interesting, …
UK Northern Ireland abortion act oversteps legal boundaries: Expert
The UK Parliament has taken a step to overturn legislation on two of the most sensitive issues in politics, in violation of an agreement that grants authority over those issues to a lower level of government. Continue Reading… Related posts: …
Rene Girard on the responsible use of language
Those of us who deal with ideas can often throw words around without being sufficiently careful about their meaning or attentive to their impact. We can be tempted to use terms to make a splash or win an argument at …
The Acton Institute spreads word of the Laffer Curve to France
One of the truths lawmakers across the transatlantic sphere must grasp is simple yet seemingly self-contradictory: Higher tax rates sometime lead to lower government revenue. This is one tradition which has deeper roots in the U.S. Continue Reading… Related posts: …
Why planting trees could be the cheapest way to tackle the climate crisis
You may have head the apocryphal quote, often attributed to Martin Luther, that, “Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.” But it turns out that planting trees today …
Bolsonaro’s first 6 months
Jair Bolsonaro has completed his first 6 months as the president of Brazil. After nearly being killed by a socialist militant during his campaign and a surprising victory in the 2018 elections, the conservative politician has, against the odds, accomplished …
