Michael Matheson Miller is a Senior Research Fellow at the Acton Institute
Posts by Michael Matheson Miller
April 13, 2023
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March 02, 2023
The question of justice is fundamental to human nature and all human cultures. Little children have an immediate sense of fair and unfair, just and unjust. The theme of justice permeates myth and philosophy.
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November 16, 2021
On Twitter and in essays at
The American Conservative, Sohrab Ahmari has argued that the debates about liberalism, post-liberalism, and integralism are “exhausted,” and that what he calls “political Catholics” are taking “these battles in other, more concrete dimensions.”
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October 16, 2021
A healthy state protects life, secures liberty, and defends property. A totalitarian state does the opposite: it arbitrarily kills, compels, and seizes property.
J. D. Vance recently appeared on Fox News with Tucker Carlson to discuss a verbal altercation between Arizona State University students, one of whom was the recipient of a Ford Foundation fellowship.
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August 21, 2020
This is part two of our series, “The Political Theology of Global Secularism.” You may read part one here. Check back frequently for forthcoming installments. – Ed.
David Foster Wallace wrote of our secular age:
[I]n the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism.
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July 24, 2020
This is part one of our series, “The Political Theology of Global Secularism.” Check back frequently for forthcoming installments. – Ed.
Globalization is a complex and multifaceted phenomenon that has many aspects: economic, military, political, and cultural.
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July 03, 2020
This week, June 29, was the solemn feast of Saints Peter and Paul. The Apostle Peter is remembered for many things: his declaration of Jesus as the Messiah; his boasting of fidelity, followed by his threefold denial of Christ; and his subsequent repentance and heroic martyrdom
The late French anthropologist and former Stanford professor Rene Girard has an insightful discussion about the denial of Peter and the problem of scapegoating and contagion.
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April 15, 2020
As the coronavirus spreads, federal, state, and local governments are wrestling with how to handle the crisis. So are civil associations, churches, businesses, and families. The role of civil society is often neglected, but it could be the most important.
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December 13, 2019
Gary Saul Morson has excellent and enlightening piece at the New Criterion on Vladimir Lenin and what he calls Leninthink.
“Lenin did more than anyone else to shape the last hundred years.
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December 12, 2019
Yesterday, December 11 was the birthday of the great Russian writer, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, born in 1918.
The Imaginative Conservative published an essay I wrote on Solzhenitsyn and the HBO series Chernobyl.
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