Alejandro A. Chafuen is Distinguished Executive Fellow of the Acton Institute. A graduate of Grove City College and the Argentine Catholic University, Buenos Aires, he also holds a Ph.D. in economics from International College, California. From 1991 to 2018, Dr. Chafuen was president and CEO of the Atlas Network. He is also president and founder of the Hispanic American Center of Economic Research. As well as publishing articles in newspapers ranging from The Wall Street Journal to La Nacion, he is also the author of Faith and Liberty, which has been published in several languages. He is also a member of the advisory board of the Social Affairs Unit (U.K.) and, since 1980, of the Mont Pèlerin Society.
I have written and been interviewed several times about President Javier Milei of Argentina. Like most observers, my focus has been on his economic policies. This is understandable. Milei often describes himself as a professor of economics who happens to be president. Continue Reading...
Nothing guarantees that a country will remain prosperous forever. President Reagan stated that “we are never more than one generation away” from doing lasting damage to the primary institutions of the free society. Continue Reading...
Christian philosophy and morality were far from my intellectual radar during the 1970s when I decided to focus on economic studies. At the time I was captivated by the writings of Ayn Rand. Continue Reading...
I had the privilege of being close to Jon Basil Utley (1934-2020) for the last 25 years of his life. Even though we disagreed on a few topics, we always did it with a smile. Continue Reading...
In many countries, debates we had 40 years ago are starting to be rehashed: can one be both a Catholic and a classical liberal?
It’s good to remember some of the arguments that liberal Catholics used then to justify their positions. Continue Reading...
In an essay entitled “Passions, Politics and the Removal of a President: Lessons Learned from the Impeachment of President Clinton,” which appeared in Grove City College’s Journal of Law & Public Policy, former Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty tried to share what he and other Republicans learned from President William Jefferson Clinton’s impeachment in the late 1990s. Continue Reading...
When discussing globalization, advocates of the free economy usually start by stressing the large number of people who have risen out of extreme poverty in the last three decades. This period of poverty reduction showed a parallel growth in globalization. Continue Reading...
Some weeks ago I met with a priest named Fr. Mike at his office in the local Curia. He is a well-trained lawyer who is now in charge of civil legal affairs for one of the largest Catholic dioceses in Europe. Continue Reading...
It was again a pleasure for me to chair the “Faith and Liberty Lifetime Tribute” ceremony and session during the 2019 Estoril Political Forum in Estoril, Portugal. The Forum, a three-day program organized by the IEP (Institute for Political Studies) at the Catholic University of Portugal, attracts almost one hundred academic, think tank, and public intellectuals from both sides of the Atlantic. Continue Reading...
I was recently in an interview on NTN24 (a CNN-type TV channel for the Spanish-speaking world) about President Donald Trump’s visit to the United Kingdom. Although the topic of Brexit was not supposed to be on the agenda for this state visit—especially in the presence of the queen—it seemed that Brexit was the first topic Trump brought up. Continue Reading...
