Anne Bradley, Ph.D., is an Acton affiliate scholar, the vice president of Academic Affairs at The Fund for American Studies, and professor of economics at The Institute of World Politics.
Posts by Anne Bradley
June 26, 2024
It’s summer and you know what that means: it’s time to ice your latte or lemonade, head to the porch, and catch up on your reading. For those who’ve attended Acton University before, you know the staff curates an impressive collection of books for sale.
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May 02, 2024
Is it this best or worst of times? Pessimism sells, but the reality of our daily lives makes a case for optimism today and hope for the future.
The preponderance of negativity and pessimism in the news makes it easy to believe that the world is at its worst, but my experience and yours can reveal that it may be the best of times.
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April 24, 2024
The May issue of
First Things includes an article by Matthew Schmitz titled, “JD Vance, Religious Populist,” in which Vance is portrayed as perhaps the last hope for the survival of Christianity in American politics and the public square.
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November 16, 2023
The tyrannical collusion between global and corporate elites and the U.S. government leaves us teetering on the edge of losing everything and owning nothing, according to Carol Roth in her new book,
You Will Own Nothing: Your War with a New Financial World Order and How to Fight Back.
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October 06, 2023
The city of Chicago is plagued by waves of violence, looting, and plunder dating back to 2020, which was deemed “the summer of looting” by the
Chicago Tribune, spurred by the murder of George Floyd while in police custody amid COVID lockdowns.
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August 03, 2023
The woke agenda in corporate America is increasingly tyrannical and must be stopped to preserve free markets and the American way of life, so writes Stephen R. Soukup in the newly released second edition of
The Dictatorship of Woke Capital: How Political Correctness Captured Big Business.
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June 21, 2023
The best way to start summer is to stock up on the newest book releases and to revisit the classics. Whether you’re concerned about growing populism among the right and left, how to think through humanitarian aid within your church, or the more significant questions of human flourishing, there is something for everyone.
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May 25, 2023
Nine times. If you’ve seen the classic ’80s film
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, you recognize and can hear the principal’s voice. Ferris, an overconfident and overzealous teenager, has managed to ditch school with his two pals—again.
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November 30, 2022
Free Market: The History of an Idea by Jacob Soll, a professor of history, philosophy, and accounting, attempts to trace the philosophical and theoretical evolution of the free market over 2,000 years.
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October 06, 2022
Just a few years ago, very few people knew or discussed the Jones Act. Now everyone is talking about it. In a colossal but somewhat predictable fiasco, while Puerto Rico was being pummeled by Hurricane Fiona, the Jones Act prevented a cargo ship from docking off its coast to deliver some 300,000 barrels of much-needed diesel fuel.
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