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 MTS in historical theology from Calvin Theological Seminary.
In addition to his work as an editor, Dylan has authored several peer-reviewed articles, conference papers, essays, and one book: Foundations of a Free & Virtuous Society (Acton Institute, 2017). He has also lectured on a wide variety of topics, including Orthodox Christian social thought, the history of Christian monastic enterprise, the Reformed statesman and theologian Abraham Kuyper, and academic publishing, among others.
Posts by Dylan Pahman
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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June 16, 2023
The French Revolution of 1848, which began on February 22 in Paris, led to the fall of the July Monarchy in France, the founding of the Second Republic, a wave of democratic revolutions across Europe, a revival of European liberalism, and the spread of various forms of socialism.
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January 05, 2023
In his classic
The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism, Michael Novak offers an observation about an ongoing struggle in a pluralistic society: the absence of a unified vision of the good.
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November 02, 2022
From sociologists Christian Smith and Melinda Lundquist Denton’s worries over “moral therapeutic deism” in their 2005 book, to the Pew Research Center’s documentation of the growing trend of religious “nones” (people who claim no religious affiliation), to common claims that we now live in a “post-Christian” culture, the idea that religion and modern affluence cannot coexist has deep roots.
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