January 2014 Archives

January 22, 2014

‘Being Black At University Of Michigan’ (#BBUM) Students Should Transfer To Howard University

Contrary to the spirit of cooperation and solidarity, a group of black students at the University of Michigan believe they should receive some sort of special treatment because they are black. Continue Reading...

January 22, 2014

The Ever-Persistent, Always-Destructive Myth of Overpopulation

The Nordic philosopher and priest Anders Chydenius (1729-1803) — the “Adam Smith of the North” — once asked: Would the Great Master, who adorns the valley with flowers and covers the cliff itself with grass and mosses, exhibit such a great mistake in man, his masterpiece, that man should not be able to enrich the globe with as many inhabitants as it can support? Continue Reading...

January 22, 2014

Rural Cuba and the tragedy of the commons

Michael J. Totten has a new piece on his travels through Cuba, this one focused on rural Cuba. “Most of the Cuban landscape I saw is already deforested,” he writes. “It’s just not being used. Continue Reading...

January 22, 2014

The Netherlands Try To Cure ‘Dutch Disease’: Welfare State

wants to talk about disease and dysfunction. It’s not a medical condition, though; it’s an economic one. Far too few governments rein in their countries’ bloated welfare states before disaster strikes. Continue Reading...

January 22, 2014

A Big Government Rescue Plan For Women

We’re scolded for blaming the poor, judging their lifestyle choices, says Elise Hilton in this week’s Acton Commentary. But what good can we do if we refuse to look at systemic issues? Continue Reading...

January 22, 2014

Audio: Rev. Robert A. Sirico on the Foundations of Liberty

Acton Institute President Rev. Robert A. Sirico made an appearance on The Price of Business with host Kevin Price on Business 1110 KTEK in Houston, Texas. The conversation focused on the importance of liberty and the vital need to understand the foundations of our freedoms. Continue Reading...

January 21, 2014

National Religious Freedom Day In The U.S. And The Vision of Jefferson

Perhaps it’s because we Americans are still getting over Christmas, or talking about the Super Bowl, but National Religious Freedom Day doesn’t get a lot of press. But indeed: January 16 is National Religious Freedom Day, adopted originally by the state of Virginia and now remembered annually by the White House. Continue Reading...

January 21, 2014

Is There a Moral Basis for the Free Market?

The morality of the market, important as it is in a free society, says James Stoner, is not the only kind of morality that matters in common life: So is there a moral basis for the free market? Continue Reading...

January 21, 2014

Free Book Giveaway: Kuyper’s ‘Guidance for Christian Engagement in Government’

Christian’s Library Press has just released the first-ever English translation of Abraham Kuyper’s Our Program (Ons Program), under the title Guidance for Christian Engagement in Government. First published in 1879, Ons Program served as an outline for Kuyper’s Anti-Revolutionary Party. Continue Reading...