We have interesting classifications of our institutions of higher learning. The Carnegie classification of major research universities distinguishes between R1 and R2 schools. The well-known U.S. News & World Report Rankings separate national universities from regional ones, and also from national liberal arts colleges. Continue Reading… Read more at The Acton Institute
Will you help us champion global solutions for global problems?
22 September 2023 Only determination and compromise can rescue a world that is becoming “unhinged” …. reform the multilateral system and come together for the common good. – UN Secretary-General at UNGA 78 As I am drafting this message, world leaders are addressing the opening “high level” session of the 78th UN Visit the Rideau Institute for the complete article
Pushing Back Against the New Deal in Real Time
The American Institute of Economic Research has published an anthology of critics of the New Deal, New Deal Rebels,complete with more than 50 brief commentaries and excerpts. The book is edited by contemporary economic historian Amity Shlaes, herself a prominent New Deal critic, whose The Forgotten Man is perhaps the most comprehensive work memorializing the mistakes of that era. Continue Reading… Read more at The Acton Institute
The Wheel of Time: A Postmodern LOTR?
The Wheel of Time is a series of 14 novels by Robert Jordan, which debuted in 1990. You may never have heard of them, but they’ve sold 100 million copies and add up to more than 4 million words. Continue Reading… Read more at The Acton Institute
Cities: An Engine of Progress and Civilization
What is progress? How and where does it occur? Such questions are not easy to answer. Debates about the nature of progress have given rise to entire theories of historical development. Continue Reading… Read more at The Acton Institute
On Constitution Day, Celebrate the Anti-Federalists
Constitutional questions used to be intellectually serious, steeped in competing traditions, and shaped by schools of thought often rooted in divergent interpretations of the American past. No more. Now we get pressing questions like, “Can Trump run for president from prison?,” Continue Reading… Read more at The Acton Institute
Climate and the UN, saving UNRWA, new Ukraine update
CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE UN The website Media Lens has a devastating recent analysis of our collective failure to adequately respond to climate change. It is entitled Climate Collapse – The Grim Silence Of Our Leaders (medialens.org, 14 September 2023). They begin: None of us has previously witnessed a barrage of extreme Visit the Rideau Institute for the complete article
The Basic Principles of Wealth Creation Have Not Changed
The need for economic education has never been more apparent. In an inflationary economy with housing costs outpacing first-time homebuyer budgets, banking collapses, and a popping tech bubble, the need for sound economics is self-evident. Continue Reading… Read more at The Acton Institute
Why Philosophy? Reflections on Fides et Ratio.
“Faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth; and God has placed in the human heart a desire to know the truth.” Continue Reading… Read more at The Acton Institute
Is the Tide Turning on Religious Belief?
In the latter half of the 19th century, the poet Matthew Arnold, on his honeymoon, was walking with his bride along the rocky shoreline of the English Channel as the tide was going out. Continue Reading… Read more at The Acton Institute
Elisabeth Elliot and the Mystery of Divine Providence
With over 24 books to her credit, renowned biographer and New York Times bestselling author Ellen Vaughn is out with her second volume on the life and work of Elisabeth Elliot, the noted Christian author, speaker, and philosopher who died in 2015 after a 10-year struggle with dementia. Continue Reading… Read more at The Acton Institute
Foreign interference inquiry, sanctions and peacemaking, and an important Ukraine update
FOREIGN INTERFERENCE – GOVERNMENT LAUNCHES PUBLIC INQUIRY On 7 September 2023 the Minister of Public Safety, Democratic Institutions and Intergovernmental Affairs, Dominic LeBlanc, announced the establishment of a Public Inquiry into Foreign Interference in Federal Electoral Processes and Democratic Institutions. As the Minister himself noted: The announcement of this inquiry follows extensive consultations Visit the Rideau Institute for the complete article
