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
January 08, 2020
Last November, my colleague Dan Hugger critiqued comments by Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) about his desire for “common good capitalism” informed by Roman Catholic social teaching. Generally speaking, this is an aspiration that many at the Acton Institute share, but the specifics of what that would look like are where the real differences lie.
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December 11, 2019
Today, Law & Liberty published the text of my lecture for the Philadelphia Society in October: “Why Economic Nationalism Fails.”
The topic for the panel was “Conservatism and the Coming Economy.”
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November 25, 2019
I am grateful to Fr. Ben Johnson for his thoughtful response to my recent post, “The social responsibility of Chick-fil-A is to make delicious sandwiches.” He adds some extra nuance, but I still stand my ground.
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November 20, 2019
Chicken giant or giant chicken?
That is the question conservative cultural commentators are asking this week as news broke that restaurant chain Chick-fil-A, known for being closed on Sunday due to its owners’ Christian values, announced that it will no longer support the Salvation Army and the Fellowship of Christian Athletes.
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November 04, 2019
Last week,
Rule of Faith, a new Orthodox Christian online journal, published my article, “V. S. Soloviev and the Russian Roots of Personalism.”
The article examines the nineteenth-century Russian Orthodox philosopher Vladimir Soloviev’s philosophy as it relates to the twentieth-century social philosophy known as personalism.
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October 28, 2019
A week ago I participated in a panel for the Philadelphia Society on “Conservatism and the Coming Economy.” During the Q&A, I was asked about the future of economic freedom specifically regarding our two major political parties.
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October 01, 2019
Recently at the
Imaginative Conservative, David Deavel, assistant professor of Catholic Studies at the University of St. Thomas, reviewed one of the newest contributions to the Acton Institute’s long-running Christian Social Thought monograph series:
Justice in Taxation by Robert G.
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September 16, 2019
Richard Nixon supposedly once said, “We’re all Keynesians now,” referring to the new accepted regime of monetary policy.
Today, we have far bigger problems than our Keynesian Federal Reserve. Any present-day politician could just as well say, “We’re all Andrew Yang now.”
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August 28, 2019
Today in the Orthodox Church we commemorate St. Moses the Ethiopian, also simply known as St. Moses the Black. His life and teachings have enriched the Christian spiritual tradition for more than 1,600 years, and he has something to teach us about the concept of vocation.
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August 15, 2019
“Space,” proclaimed the memorable opening to the original Star Trek series, is “the final frontier.”
The image of the frontier, and its historic importance to Americans especially, has been part of our national discourse since at least historian Frederick J.
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