Becoming Europe: Economic Decline

April 17, 2013

Think (and Read) before You Blog: A Response to Michael Sean Winters

Over at the National Catholic Reporter, Michael Sean Winters makes some comments about my book Becoming Europe based on a review he had read by Fr. C.J. McCloskey. Here are the most pertinent of his observations: I know that American exceptionalism lives on both the left and the right, but when did the right become so Europhobic? Continue Reading...

April 16, 2013

Review: Fr. McCloskey on ‘Becoming Europe’

Fr C. John McCloskey, a Church historian and research fellow at the Faith and Reason Institute in Washington, recently reviewed Samuel Gregg’s Becoming Europe: Economic Decline, Culture, and How America Can Avoid a European Future. Continue Reading...

January 31, 2013

‘Becoming Europe’ or Coming Full Circle?

America, for the obvious reasons, holds strong ties to Europe. But it is a country that has primarily been associated with a distinctness and separation from the turmoil and practices of the continent. Continue Reading...

January 23, 2013

The economics of Downton Abbey

The wildly-popular BBC production, “Downton Abbey” has offices buzzing on Monday mornings. Like the “Upstairs, Downstairs” of old, “Downton” provides the viewer with two distinct lifestyles in one house: that of Lord and Lady of the manor and of the staff that runs the place. Continue Reading...

January 22, 2013

Samuel Gregg: Please put Tocqueville, Maritain on reading list, Mr. President

National Review Online asked Acton Research Director Samuel Gregg to weigh in on President Barack Obama’s second term inaugural address. Gregg points to “our president’s worldview that the government is the primary way in which we address our common problems and realize our responsibilities and obligations to each other as citizens and as human beings.” Continue Reading...

January 21, 2013

Samuel Gregg: ‘Political Detroitification and economic Europeanization’

National Review Online invited Acton Research Director Samuel Gregg to contribute to a roundup of opinion on the inauguration of a second term in office for President Barack Obama. Gregg, the author of the just-published Becoming Europe: Economic Decline, Culture, and How America Can Avoid a European Future, was also featured yesterday on Ed Driscoll’s blog on Pajamas Media. Continue Reading...

January 18, 2013

Audio: Samuel Gregg on Secularism, Religion and ‘Becoming Europe’

Acton Institute Research Director Samuel Gregg was recently featured on three different radio shows. He discussed Becoming Europe as well as the complications resulting from a growing religious diversity in Europe. Continue Reading...

January 11, 2013

Audio: More ‘Becoming Europe’ interviews with Samuel Gregg; Washington book event

Samuel Gregg on Money Radio 1510, Scottsdale, Ariz.: [audio:http://bonhoeffer.acton.org/acton_media/mp3/2013/2013-01-11_Gregg.mp3] Samuel Gregg on the Janet Mefferd Show:: [audio:http://bonhoeffer.acton.org/acton_media/mp3/2013/2013-01-10_Gregg.mp3] Gregg’s new book Becoming Europe: Economic Decline, Culture, and How America Can Avoid a European Future is now available. Continue Reading...

December 30, 2012

Samuel Gregg: United States succumbing to ‘Eurosclerosis?’

In the New York Post, Acton Research Director Samuel Gregg looks at “the spread throughout America of economic expectations and arrangements directly at odds with our republic’s founding” and asks what the slow walk to “Europeanization” means for the long term. Continue Reading...

November 12, 2012

Samuel Gregg: Are We All Europeans Now?

Writing on The Corner over at National Review Online, Acton Research Director Samuel Gregg points to the election and, refreshingly, tells us that, “I’m not one of those who, in recent days, have seemed inclined to indulge their inner curmudgeon, apparently convinced that it’s more or less game-over for America and we’re doomed to Euro-serfdom.” Continue Reading...