August 28, 2019
Michael Matheson Miller is a Senior Research Fellow at the Acton Institute
Posts by Michael Matheson Miller
July 31, 2019
Simon Leys on Christopher Hitchens, Mother Teresa & “The Empire of Ugliness”
July 31, 2019
Protecting farmers or crony capitalism?
Reuters reported today that a large portion of US farm aid went to the wealthiest farmers and advocacy group.
More than half of the Trump administration’s $8.4 billion in trade aid payments to U.S. Continue Reading...
July 30, 2019
Viktor Frankl on the error of the pleasure principle
July 12, 2019
Rene Girard on the responsible use of language
June 28, 2019
Carl Jung and Lord Acton on the delicate fruit of liberty
Lord Acton famously wrote that “liberty is the delicate fruit of a mature civilization.”
Liberty, Acton argued was rare and required constant attention to be maintained. As many have noted, one of the challenges with political liberty is that it creates the conditions for its own demise from within. Continue Reading...
June 28, 2019
Economics and the social nature of the person
At the center of the economy are human persons.
Economics must first be a human discipline before it can be a technical one. One of the essential characteristics of the human person is that we are social beings. Continue Reading...
June 26, 2019
Nisbet and Dalrymple on community, authority, function and tattoos
In his must-read book, The Quest for Community, Robert Nisbet discusses the relationship of community and authority.
Communities provide human connection and sense of belonging, but they also come with limitations. Continue Reading...
June 17, 2019
Business is bad. Can it also be good?
There are many reasons to critique business these days. From crony capitalist practices to surveillance capitalism and data collection, from abuse of the environment for short term profits to siding with the fashionable for short term praise at the expense of religious freedom and long term cultural health. Continue Reading...
May 30, 2019