Dylan Pahman is a research fellow at the Acton Institute, where he serves as executive editor of the Journal of Markets & Morality. He earned his Ph.D. from St. Mary’s University, Twickenham, London, on the basis of his published works on Orthodox Christian social thought and asceticism. He is the author of The Kingdom of God and the Common Good and Foundations of a Free & Virtuous Society.
Posts by Dylan Pahman
September 01, 2025
The first Monday in September is Labor Day in the United States and Canada, commemorating the contributions of organized labor to improved working conditions. The common story of Labor Day is typically secular: To fight for higher wages, safer workplaces, and shorter workweeks, workers formed unions to bargain collectively or, if necessary, to strike.
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May 20, 2025
The Council of Nicaea, the First Ecumenical Council of the ancient and undivided Catholic Church, bequeathed to the world far more than the one universally accepted creed in Christian history, though that is no small feat.
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May 16, 2025
The new pontiff of Rome has already set a tone for his papacy with the choice of his name:
I chose to take the name Leo XIV. There are different reasons for this, but mainly because Pope Leo XIII in his historic Encyclical Rerum Novarum addressed the social question in the context of the first great industrial revolution.
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December 24, 2024
In the opening track to their now-classic 1983 album,
War, Irish rock band U2 sang about “Sunday Bloody Sunday.”
I can’t believe the news today
Oh, I can’t close my eyes and make it go away
…
Broken bottles under children’s feet
Bodies strewn across the dead-end street
But I won’t heed the battle call
It puts my back up, puts my back up against the wall
Bono was supposedly singing about the “Bloody Sunday” of January 20, 1972, in which 26 unarmed protesters were shot by British troops in Bogside in Derry, Northern Ireland.
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August 22, 2024
In a campaign speech in North Carolina last Friday, Vice President Kamala Harris detailed her plan for “creating opportunities for the middle class that advance their economic security, stability, and dignity.”
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June 21, 2024
Writing on June 16 at
Current, John Fea tells a story that’s becoming too familiar in Christian higher education:
Last Spring, ten Cornerstone faculty … either left Cornerstone or were forced out by the administration.
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February 14, 2024
In his 2009 encyclical,
Caritas in Veritate, Pope Benedict XVI highlighted the inadequacy of a social imaginary that includes only the market and the state:
The exclusively binary model of market-plus-State is corrosive of society, while economic forms based on solidarity, which find their natural home in civil society without being restricted to it, build up society.
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December 25, 2023
As we deck the halls with boughs of holly this year, read the story of Christ’s Nativity, sing hymns and carols, exchange gifts, and light our homes in increasingly irrational competition verging on mutually assured destruction with our neighbors, we must not lose sight of the real “reason for the season”: Santa’s victory over the pagan goddess Artemis.
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November 23, 2023
Each night, when it’s my turn to tuck in my littlest kids—Erin (5) and Callaghan (3) … and sometimes Aidan (6)—we say the same traditional prayers together: the “Our Father,” the “Axion Estin,” and the Creed.
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September 06, 2023
A new school year has just begun, and students and their parents are faced once again with the high cost of higher education.
The Supreme Court ruled President Biden’s executive order on student loan forgiveness unconstitutional.
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