John C. Pinheiro is Director of Research at the Acton Institute. Previously, he was professor of history and the founding director of Catholic Studies at Aquinas College. He is also the author of the award-winning Missionaries of Republicanism: A Religious History of the Mexican-American War, James K. Polk and Civil-Military Relations during the Mexican War, and The American Experiment in Ordered Liberty. You can find him on X as @DrJohnPinheiro.
Posts by John C. Pinheiro
December 16, 2024
Dr. Lee Edwards, historian of the American conservative movement and self-professed “admirer of the Acton Institute and its important work,” passed away last week at the age of 92.
Edwards was more than a scholar of the conservative movement: He was a pivotal person in it.
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October 15, 2024
John Pinheiro: You are the Hungarian ambassador to the Holy See and the Sovereign Order of Malta. When ambassadors write books, we expect them to be about diplomacy, international law, cultural exchange among nations. Continue Reading...
October 03, 2024
As we approach the 250th anniversary of American independence in 2026, what exactly will Americans be celebrating? The 1619 Project rejects 1776 as an important moment in the history of liberty.
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June 27, 2024
There is an insightful exchange in the 2003 film
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World between Capt. Jack Aubrey (Russell Crowe) and his friend Dr. Stephen Maturin (Paul Bettany).
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January 30, 2024
Being a Christian in ancient Rome was not easy. Stories and legends of the martyrs of this period are not for the faint of heart. Recall that, according to tradition, only one of the 12 apostles died a natural death.
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September 17, 2023
Constitutional questions used to be intellectually serious, steeped in competing traditions, and shaped by schools of thought often rooted in divergent interpretations of the American past. No more. Now we get pressing questions like, “Can Trump run for president from prison?,”
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August 10, 2023
Lord Acton believed that “the only real political
noblesse on the Continent is the Austrian.” In
The Habsburg Way, Eduard Habsburg, archduke of Austria and Hungarian ambassador to the Holy See and the Sovereign Order of Malta, has written a charming and insightful book.
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May 23, 2023
One consequence of what Italian philosopher Augusto del Noce calls our present “age of secularization” is the paradoxical modern tendency of atheists to divinize politics and the state. What the Church once undid, ideology would rejoin.
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