August 19, 2019
August 02, 2019
Why has the West’s integration of reason and faith fallen apart? An interview with Samuel Gregg
July 26, 2019
Edmund Burke on true freedom
In the United States, a growing number of Americans, especially young Americans, are calling for extreme personal autonomy in the guise of “freedom,” while promoting increased government control and coercion.
The left, for example, defends radical pro-abortion laws motivated by a desire for personal autonomy. Continue Reading...
July 23, 2019
How ideologues devalue and dismiss economics
Economics is often dismissed as ideological, reductionist, and mendacious. In the United States we see these criticisms increasingly from both the political left and right. This should come as no surprise as the lessons of economics have implications for the prudential decisions that make up much of our political life. Continue Reading...
July 10, 2019
Who’s an Old Whig?
July 10, 2019
The amazing story of how Albanians helped American GIs escape to freedom
July 05, 2019
Alejandro Chafuen in Forbes: Arthur Laffer’s Medal of Freedom
On June 19, President Trump awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to economist Arthur Laffer, noted as a proponent of supply-side economics and famous for the concept of the “Laffer curve,” which states that taxes will not increase revenue if they rise beyond a certain level. Continue Reading...
July 01, 2019
The ghosts in Xi Jinping’s China Dream
Early on in Ma Jian’s new novel the main character has a vision: I saw elderly men and women smashing rocks against the ground under the steely gaze of teenage Red Guards. Continue Reading...
June 28, 2019
What Willmoore Kendall can teach us about America
Willmoore Kendall defied the norms of many mainstream intellectual movements. Those who knew him recall a “typical strangeness” that characterized the man and his works. He was a solitary figure who has been largely forgotten in today’s conservative conversations. Continue Reading...
June 26, 2019
What does politics have to do with virtue?
One of the highlights of my summers working at the Acton Institute is leading discussions with our interns over major ideas, thinkers, and issues. This afternoon we had a spirited and thought provoking discussion about conservative critiques of liberalism. Continue Reading...