Virtue

October 04, 2018

6 Quotes: Russell Kirk on virtue

This is the second in a series celebrating the work of Russell Kirk in honor of his 100th birthday this October. Read more from the series here. The Acton Institute was fortunate to have Russell Kirk serve in an advisory capacity from the founding of the institute up until the time of his death. Continue Reading...

October 03, 2018

Russell Kirk: Where does virtue come from?

This is the first in a series celebrating the work of Russell Kirk in honor of his 100th birthday this October. Read more from the series here. How can human society form and raise up virtuous people? Continue Reading...

September 28, 2018

C.S. Lewis on the necessity of chivalry

There are few concepts today more dismissed—and yet more necessary—than chivalry. During the Middle Ages chivalry was a moral system that combined a warrior ethos, knightly piety, and courtly manners. As C.S. Continue Reading...

September 11, 2018

How garbage collectors thread the fabric of civilization

In a short film from StoryCorps, sanitation workers Angelo Bruno and Eddie Nieves reflect on their time spent sharing a garbage route in Manhattan’s West Village. Their story offers a striking portrait of the dignity, meaning, and transcendent value of work done in the service of neighbors. Continue Reading...

August 31, 2018

Where criminal justice reform meets the redemptive power of work

According to a recent study by the Rand Corporation, “more than 2 million adults are incarcerated in U.S. prisons,” with roughly 700,000 leaving federal and state prisons each year. Of those released, “40 percent will be reincarcerated.” Continue Reading...

August 08, 2018

How capitalism confounds our notions about the Earth’s ‘carrying capacity’

The doom delusions of central planners and population “experts” are well documented and thoroughly exposed, ranging from the early pessimism of Rev. Thomas Robert Malthus to the more recent predictions of Paul Ehrlich. Continue Reading...

July 25, 2018

The folly of ‘following your passion’

If you’re a young person in America, you’ve undoubtedly been bombarded by calls to “follow your passion,” “pursue your dreams,” or “do what you love and love what you do.” But do these sugary mantras truly represent the path to vocational clarity, economic abundance, personal fulfillment, and human flourishing? Continue Reading...

July 19, 2018

How a pizzeria in Rome is highlighting the gifts of those with Down syndrome

In 2000, two parents founded a pizzeria in Rome with the goal of employing people with Down syndrome. Inspired by their son, who had the condition, they named it La Locanda dei Girasoli (translated as “The Sunflower Inn”). Continue Reading...

July 18, 2018

Workplace as community in an age of isolation

Despite the countless blessings of modernity, expansions in freedom and economic prosperity have been accompanied by a widespread decrease in community involvement and steady increase in loneliness. As Michael Hendrix put it, “Prosperity has afforded our independence from neighbors and networks.” Continue Reading...

June 28, 2018

What conservatives and progressives get wrong about civil society

In the wake of modernity, we’ve seen in an increasing divide between individual and state—a simultaneous acceleration in both self-exultation and blind deference to the power and might of “collective action.” Continue Reading...

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