Interviews

March 20, 2019

Interview: Margarita Mooney on communism, freedom, and the ‘irreducible person’

The Acton Institute alumni network is now over 8,000 people strong. This group spans many disciplines and contains many of the most influential leaders from those disciplines. Margarita Mooney is one of those influential people. Continue Reading...

February 20, 2019

The price of being middle class

I was glad to be able to engage P. J. O’Rourke in a wide-ranging discussion for the Acton podcast this week. In this episode of Acton Line, P. J. and I talk about “mutant” capitalism, cryptocurrency (neither of us really understand it), the state of the middle class, the Trump phenomenon, and much more, based on his latest book, None of My Business: P.J. Continue Reading...

February 11, 2019

Socialism, by any other name

At the end of January I had the pleasure to speak with my friend of many years Ricardo Ball about the ongoing crisis in Venezuela. The conversation was livestreamed from the Acton Institute allowing an international audience to listen in as we discussed recent developments from the streets of Caracas. Continue Reading...

January 28, 2019

From the streets of Caracas, Venezuela

Perhaps nothing sums up the situation in socialist Venezuela quite like the photo below. Within just a few feet of a grocery store, people dig through a garbage truck in desperation looking for food. Continue Reading...

January 04, 2019

Criminal justice reform: Possible effects of the First Step Act

This is part three of a series on criminal justice reform. The First Step Act was one of the last laws passed by the 115th Congress and signed by President Trump before the current federal government shutdown. Continue Reading...

December 28, 2018

Criminal justice reform: What does economics have to say?

This is part two of a series on criminal justice reform. Read part one here. For many, crime and criminal justice are not obvious economic issues, despite their effects on public budgets due to the cost of courts, policing, investigating crimes, and much more. Continue Reading...

December 21, 2018

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Interviews

Interview: Margarita Mooney on communism, freedom, and the ‘irreducible person’

The price of being middle class

Criminal justice reform: Possible effects of the First Step Act

Top 10 PowerBlog posts for 2018

Criminal justice reform: What does economics have to say?

Joy for the world: The true source of our economic witness

Teaching The Gulag Archipelago to American college students

C.S. Lewis on the strangeness of Christmas in a post-Christian age