Ella Yates

Ella Yates is a member of the Acton Institute’s 2025 Emerging Leaders Program, working with the Center for Social Flourishing. She is also pursuing a B.A in philosophy and political science at the University of Notre Dame. Her research interests include Thomistic metaphysics, Catholic ethics, aesthetics, and family studies.

Posts by Ella Yates

July 16, 2025

Rebuilding Virtue: We Need an Architecture Revival

“Beauty will save the world.” With this declaration, Prince Myshkin in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s The Idiot affirms his belief in the triumph of the transcendent principles of truth, beauty, and goodness. Despite the ugliness too often seen in the world and the moral corruption that corrupts the minds and acts of men, the belief that beauty is a path to salvation persists. Continue Reading...