April 17, 2017
March 01, 2017
Radio Free Acton: Samuel Gregg on the life and impact of Michael Novak
On this edition of Radio Free Acton, we speak with Acton Institute Director of Research Samuel Gregg about the life and impact of Michael Novak, who passed away on February 17, 2017. Continue Reading...
February 07, 2017
Sirico: Betsy DeVos confirmation best choice for education crisis
The Senate today narrowly voted for a change in the status quo, and that is an answer to the prayers of millions of parents who have witnessed a steady plummet of their respective children’s test scores over the past few decades. Continue Reading...
January 11, 2017
Video: Alex Chediak explains how to beat the college debt trap
December 28, 2016
Commentary: Power and the poor
In this week’s Acton Commentary I examine the foundations of what is today identified as the “preferential option for the poor” in writings that appeared 125 years ago, Pope Leo’s Rerum Novarum and Abraham Kuyper’s “The Social Question and the Christian Religion.” Continue Reading...
December 02, 2016
Samuel Gregg: Protectionism harmful in the long run
In a new article at The Christian Science Monitor titled “Can ‘economic nationalism’ keep more jobs in US?” Acton Director of Research Samuel Gregg is interviewed about President-elect Donald Trump’s stated goal of keeping jobs and businesses from leaving for foreign countries. Continue Reading...
November 02, 2016
Markets without limits?
November 02, 2016
The Christian Statesman and the Gospel to the Poor
November 01, 2016
Video: Rev. Robert A. Sirico At Acton’s 26th Anniversary Dinner
October 05, 2016
‘Riches do not bring freedom’
The contrast between the treatments by David Bentley Hart and Dylan Pahman of the question of the intrinsic evil of “great personal wealth” this week pretty well established, I think, that in itself wealth is among the things neither forbidden nor absolutely required. Continue Reading...