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 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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August 05, 2019
Back in the 1990s, the debut of
Magic: The Gathering marked a new form of gaming: collectible card games. While many may remember it similarly to Pogs, for example, Magic survived where Pogs did not.
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August 01, 2019
Last night was the second night of the Democrats’ second primary debate. It is the last some candidates will appear on stage, as they likely won’t meet the higher threshold for the third debate in September.
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July 09, 2019
The newest season of Netflix’s sci-fi horror series
Stranger Things released on July 4, and I’m happy to report that season 3 has a new hero, and her name is Erica.
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July 01, 2019
The Democrats had their first presidential primary debate last week, and immigration was a central focus both nights. Poor conditions of refugees and others detained crossing the southern border have been in the news all year.
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June 28, 2019
The newest issue of the
Journal of Markets & Morality has been published both in print and online
here.
Scholarly contributions range from a study of joy and labor in Ecclesiastes, virtue and vice in the American founding, whistleblowing, and the economics and ethics of education, including a Controversy debating the merits and demerits of the tenure system.
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June 11, 2019
John Stossel says, “Yes,” at least according to a recent video at
Reason.
In the video, “Don’t Be Scared of Designer Babies,” Stossel interviews Georgetown University Professor Jason Brennan, who offers the following unhelpful and patronizing strawman of anyone who objects to the idea of using gene-editing technology to engineer one’s offspring however one wants:
When you have any kind of intervention into the body that’s new, people think it’s icky.
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June 03, 2019
Last week the Mackinac Center — a think tank that focuses on public policy in Michigan — published a new study: “Workforce Development in Michigan.”
The study, authored by Hope College economics professor, Acton research fellow, and
Journal of Markets & Morality associate editor Sarah Estelle, examines the wide variety of skills-training and employment programs in the state.
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