Dan Hugger is Librarian and Research Associate at the Acton Institute.
Posts by Dan Hugger
December 24, 2025
A perennial theme of modern holiday classics, from the ridiculous
Jingle All the Way to the sublime
A Charlie Brown Christmas, is the conspicuous absence of the Christmas spirit during Christmas season.
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June 04, 2025
In 2009, the economist Tyler Cowen began a TEDx Talk in open subversion of the format, telling the audience: “I was told to come here and tell you all stories, but what I’d like to do is instead tell you why I’m suspicious of stories.
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April 18, 2025
A little over a year ago, on one of the world’s most popular podcasts,
The Joe Rogan Experience, the host Joe Rogan asked the musician Kid Rock, “If you could go to one place, where would you go?
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December 31, 2024
Open any paper, anywhere, anytime. In it you will find the news. There were many news stories throughout 2024 featuring the rise and fall of governments. Some orderly and peaceful through elections, as in the United States.
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July 25, 2024
I have tried for years to understand just what National Conservatism is. I now know. After reading dozens of essays, writing three, attended two NatCons, and engaging in innumerable conversations, I finally see the essence.
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June 22, 2023
A young Kansas boy moves between oil derricks, wheat fields, and abandoned buildings. He stops for only one thing: the hose. Not any ordinary hose, but a most extraordinary hose. Its contents pour forth not in trickles, streams, or torrents but gush in words, images, and pages.
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April 20, 2023
The Last of Us is the latest prestige drama from HBO and has gained near universal critical acclaim, garnering the second-largest audience for the network since 2010, trailing only the
Game of Thrones prequel series,
House of the Dragon.
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October 18, 2022
The most thought-provoking scene in John Boorman’s 1981 lavish epic fantasy film,
Excalibur, is one of its most understated. It’s a conversation about love. King Arthur stares enchanted by the Lady Guinevere as she dances across the great hall.
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July 21, 2022
Weeks after the Supreme Court’s landmark 6-3 ruling in
Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization (2022), which held that the Constitution of the United States does not confer a right to abortion, the nation is still struggling to come to grips with its consequences.
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April 19, 2022
Disney, world famous entertainment and media conglomerate, is now at the center of controversy—in all kinds of ways.
The state of Florida recently enacted the Parental Rights in Education bill, which has proven to be orders of magnitude more controversial than its name implies.
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