John C. Pinheiro

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

May 23, 2023

Don’t Divinize the State

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. Continue Reading...