governance

March 28, 2017

Global cooperation does not imply global governance

Acton’s Director of Research, Samuel Gregg, recently addressed the myth of national sovereignty being a “relic of the past” and global governance being the singular solution for the West to move forward. Continue Reading...

February 23, 2016

The Religious Left’s 2016 Proxy Agenda Revealed

The silly season once again is upon us, and by that your writer doesn’t mean federal campaigning for political office for which he cares little or the prevalence of self-promoting entertainment awards programs for which he cares even less. Continue Reading...

January 08, 2016

JMM’s Most Downloaded Articles

It’s a new year, and I’ve had occasion to do some retrospection on various things, including the Journal of Markets & Morality. The Fall 2015 issue is at the printers, and that marks the completion of 18 years of articles, reviews, essays, translations, and controversies. Continue Reading...

August 12, 2014

A Christian Alternative to Unicorn Governance

The centuries-long debate between conservatives and progressives about governance, argues Michael Munger, is essentially a disagreement about a simple concept: whether the State is a unicorn. Unicorns, of course, are fabulous horse-like creatures with a large spiraling horn on their forehead. Continue Reading...

August 17, 2012

ResearchLinks – 08.17.12

Article: “Catholicism, Human Rights and the Public Sphere” Christopher McCrudden, International Journal of Public Theology This article suggests that the scope and meaning of human rights, and its relationship to religion, is anything but settled, and that this gives an opportunity to those who support a role for religion in public life to intervene. Continue Reading...

July 27, 2012

ResearchLinks – 07.27.12

Call for Papers: “The Spirituality of the Heidelberg Catechism” June 21-22th 2013, an international conference will take place in Apeldoorn on The Spirituality of the Heidelberg Catechism. The Heidelberg Catechism has a characteristic spirituality, which will be explored from historical and theological perspectives, as part of the commemoration of the 450th anniversary of this Catechism. Continue Reading...